Hanna Hickman

Senior Counsel

Hanna Hickman is Senior Counsel at Democracy Forward.

Prior to joining Democracy Forward, Hanna was a senior enforcement attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she investigated and litigated violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act and other federal consumer financial protection laws. Prior to that, she practiced in the Public Client Practice Group at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, where she represented states and municipalities in complex consumer and Medicaid fraud investigations and enforcement actions and co-chaired the firm’s Hiring & Diversity Committee. Hanna also previously practiced at an Am Law 100 law firm, and she served for a decade as an adjunct faculty member at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Hanna clerked for Judge James I. Cohn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently studying towards an MSt in AI Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge.

Hanna is a member of the District of Columbia and Florida (inactive) bars.