Sunita Doddamani is a Member in the firm’s Detroit office, where she focuses her practice on high-profile government investigations, white collar criminal defense, and civil rights litigation. She brings more than 20 years of trial experience and over 150 completed trials to inform her practice.

Sunita spent her career as a federal and state prosecutor before joining Miller Johnson, giving her a comprehensive understanding of how criminal investigations are built, how charging decisions are made, and how the government approaches complex cases at every level. She now applies that experience on behalf of individuals, executives, and businesses navigating federal and state criminal matters.

Practice Related Activities

Most recently, Sunita served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, where she handled affirmative civil rights investigations and settlements, defended federal agencies, and was involved in complex criminal prosecutions.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Sunita served as Chief of the Hate Crimes & Domestic Terrorism Unit at the Michigan Department of Attorney General, where she oversaw investigations and prosecutions involving domestic terrorism and hate-motivated violence. She collaborated extensively with the FBI and served as the Attorney General’s designee to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — giving her rare insight into how federal law enforcement agencies build and coordinate investigations before charges are ever filed.

She was the lead attorney in the state prosecutions of supporters of the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She also led prosecutions against members of “The Base,” a white supremacist terror cell, marking the first use by any state of the statute criminalizing firearms training for civil disorder.

Sunita began her legal career as a trial prosecutor in Wayne County, where she spent a decade trying over 130 trials involving charges ranging from homicide, robbery, and shootings to narcotics and firearms offenses. She later served at the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, where she tried nearly 20 jury trials, almost all involving life offenses.

In 2024, Sunita served on the trial team for one of the first felony prosecutions in the country of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act as an underlying felony for a Conspiracy Against Civil Rights charge.

Her work has earned national recognition, including an FBI Director’s Award and a nomination for the U.S. Attorney General Award for Exceptional Prosecution. She has testified before the Michigan Legislature Government Oversight Subcommittee and submitted statements on behalf of the Michigan Attorney General to the U.S. House Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. In 2023, she served on an FBI team briefing German federal intelligence services on U.S. efforts to combat domestic terrorism.

Sunita has been an active legal educator, serving as co-adjunct faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School and Cooley Law School, teaching Trial Advocacy and Courtroom Technology. She also served as faculty at the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan for over a decade.

Professional Affiliations, Activities and Honors

Sunita is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the South Asian Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association. She is involved in Community: Thrive, a nonprofit supporting child nutrition in Bangladesh and the Philippines.

 Education, Bar and Court Admissions, Clerkships

Sunita holds a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Sunita is admitted to practice in the State of Michigan.

Media and Presentations

• “Main Justice” Podcast, Friends and Foes: The Fate of Prosecutors and Proud Boys, 2026
• Ingham County Sheriff’s Department, Command Staff Conference, Lansing, 2025
• FBI National Academy Alumni Association Conference, Mackinac Island, 2024
• FBI National Citizens Academy Alumni Association Conference, Detroit, 2024
• Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, 2024
• Michigan State Police, Women in Law Enforcement Conference, Grand Rapids, 2024
• Michigan Dept. of Civil Rights, Michigan Response to Hate Conference, Lansing, 2024
• U.S. DOJ, National Security Division, Domestic Violent Extremism Summit, Washington D.C, 2023
• Great Lakes Homeland Security Conference, Grand Rapids, 2023
• German Intelligence Services briefing on behalf of FBI: Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) & Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz (BfV), Cologne, Germany, 2023
• Veerashaiva Samaja of North America, Convention keynote speaker, Atlanta, GA, 2023
• Michigan Dept. of Civil Rights, Michigan Response to Hate Conference, Lansing, 2023
• Great Lakes Regional Domestic Terrorism Summit, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 2022
• Great Lakes Political Violence Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2022
• Extremely American: Voila, Militia, Boise State Public Radio podcast, 2022
• Why Militias Are So Hard to Stop, FiveThirtyEight, 2021
• Racial Harassment, White Supremacist Propaganda on the Rise in Michigan, MLive, 2021
• How the KKK Birthed New Extremist Groups in Michigan, Lansing State Journal, 2021