R. TAMAR HAGLER

Deputy Chief

U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Rights Division,
Housing & Civil Enforcement Section

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Ms. Hagler is a Deputy Chief in the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  She supervises an active docket of investigations and litigation nationwide, enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in housing, land-use and zoning, public accommodations, and public facilities.  Prior to joining the Civil Rights Division more than 17 years ago, Ms. Hagler served as a law clerk to United States District Judge John Garrett Penn and as a staff attorney in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She has served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where she taught in the law school’s trial advocacy program.  Ms. Hagler graduated from George Washington University Law School and received her B.A. in Law and Society, Criminal Justice, from the University of California at Santa Barbara.