Fadwa Hammoud

Fadwa Hammoud is Managing Member of Miller Johnson’s Detroit office. She is on the firm’s senior leadership team advancing strategic growth and client representation across the state. Hammoud helps direct key lines of service, including crisis management, dispute resolution, investigations, corporate, health care, and municipal law.

Hammoud was Chief Deputy Attorney General of Michigan representing the State and oversaw the Department’s three Bureaus and the offices of Human Resources, Fiscal Management, Legislative Affairs and Public Information and Education. As Michigan’s Solicitor General, she was the youngest to hold the position and the first Arab-American Muslim Solicitor General in the United States. She is the first Arab American Muslim woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court, winning the case of Brown v. Davenport in 2022. As former Lead Attorney under the Wayne County Prosecutor, she helped establish the Business Protection Unit and advocated on behalf of various ethnic and immigrant communities.

Hammoud served on the Michigan Middle Eastern American Affairs Commission and the Legislative Committees for Hispanic/Latino, Asian Pacific American and Middle Eastern American Affairs. In 2023, Hammoud was selected as the Woman of the Year by fellow Michigan Lawyers Weekly “Influential Women of Law” honorees.