Carmen M. Banerjee

Carmen M. Banerjee is the Senior Division Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division-Civil Trial Section (DOJ-Tax), in Washington, D.C., where her civil litigation practice ranges from government disclosure to bankruptcy matters. She supervises about 20 trial attorneys at any given time handling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) cases in U.S. district courts nationwide, and until 2017 she supervised trial attorneys handling bankruptcy cases. Among her other duties, Ms. Banerjee serves as a consultant to trial attorneys opposing discovery challenges in civil tax cases. She transferred to DOJ-Tax from the Executive Office of U.S. Trustees,Office of the General Counsel at DOJ in 2007, where she advised on a variety of bankruptcy matters. From 2001-05, Ms. Banerjee was in private practice mainly handling consumer bankruptcy cases and prosecuting preference actions, and to a lesser extent, she represented clients in family law and certain criminal defense cases. She has served in several leadership positions geared toward promoting diversity within the legal community, including serving as chair of DOJ’s Association of Hispanic Employees for Advancement and Development (DOJ-AHEAD) (DOJ’s affinity group serving Hispanic employees).  In 2019, Ms. Banerjee served as a member of the Judicial Conference’s Planning Committee of the District of Columbia for the symposium Roadways to the Federal Bench: Who Me? A Bankruptcy Judge?, which aimed to encourage diverse law school students and attorneys to consider seeking magistrate and bankruptcy judgeships.  Carmen chaired the Gender and Terminology Subgroup of ABI’s (ABI) Diversity and Inclusion Working Group in 2022 and served on two ABI panels on Primer on Pronoun Usage. Ms. Banerjee’s participation these panels is in her personal capacity; any views expressed are hers and should not be attributed to DOJ.