Vikram Swaruup will become the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ person to permanently lead the city’s largest general legal services organization.
The District’s deputy attorney general will be the next executive director of D.C. Legal Aid, becoming the first person of color and the first openly LGBTQ person to permanently take the helm of the city’s largest general legal services organization.Swaruup, 34, is the second-highest-ranking official in the office of D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine, whose term ends in January. He will become D.C.
He was the office’s first attorney to prosecute cases under the city’s Human Rights Act, according to the attorney general’s office, and in 2020 he led a lawsuit against the federal government, in coordination with D.C.
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