Amit Agarwal

[2] He also holds the Richard W. Ervin Eminent Scholar Chair at the Florida State University College of Law, where he teaches a seminar course on the constitutional separation of powers.

He left the office in the summer of 2009 to clerk for Justice Alito on the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 2015, he was selected as a “Rising Star” (“40 under 40”) in the South Florida legal community by the Daily Business Review.

In 2016, Agarwal received a “Director’s Award” from the U.S. Department of Justice for superior performance as an AUSA in the field of appellate litigation.

In 2019, the North American South Asian Bar Association selected him as a recipient of the “Cornerstone Award.” He lives in Tallahassee with his wife (Shalini Goel Agarwal, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center) and their two boys.