Jennifer Kroman

Prior to co-founding FurtherJustice Foundation, Jennifer spent more than a decade leading the global pro bono practice at Cleary Gottlieb which represents hundreds of low-income individuals and the nonprofit organizations that assist them. Earlier in her career, Jennifer was a litigation partner and a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb.

Jennifer has represented hundreds of low-income clients and has trained scores of pro bono lawyers around the country. She has helped launch numerous pro bono legal services programs, including one in New Jersey to provide lawyers to detained immigrants seeking bond, as well as a national program to provide lawyers to human trafficking survivors seeking to vacate criminal convictions. In 2017, Jennifer spearheaded Cleary’s efforts in responding to the travel ban, filing suit in federal court in New York and securing the return to the United States of a Cleveland Clinic doctor wrongfully returned to Sudan from JFK airport.

Jennifer has been honored by The Legal Aid Society, The Freedom Network, Sanctuary for Families, and the New York City Bar Justice Center for her work with immigrant children and human trafficking survivors. She was named one of New York’s 100 Most Outstanding Corporate Citizens by Responsible 100 and a “Lawyer Who Leads By Example” by The New York Law Journal.  In 2018 Penn Law School Alumni Society awarded her the Howard Lesnick Pro Bono Award. 

Jennifer received a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, and a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, in 1991 from the University of Michigan.