Grace M. Ordóñez

Prior to rejoining the firm, Ms. Ordóñez was a summer associate at MTO and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a criminal prosecution extern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Connecticut. She interned for the California Department of Justice, Criminal Appeals Division in San Francisco. She also was a summer associate and diversity scholarship recipient at an Am Law 200 firm.

Ms. Ordóñez earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and served as submissions editor and lead articles editor on the Yale Journal on Regulation. Her honors include Coker Fellow and being a finalist for the Arnold & Porter Diversity Award. While in law school, she was a research assistant to various professors and researched the impact of climate change on tort law and social and political polarization and its capital market effects. She was also a student director for Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic.

She earned an M.S. magna cum laude and a B.S. summa cum laude in accountancy from Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business. She was the president and founder of the university’s Pre-Law Society. Her honors include the Outstanding Undergraduate Award, the Ernst & Young Diversity Scholar Award, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Ordóñez worked as a tax consultant for a top accounting firm and as a consumer protection litigation legal assistant for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. She is fluent in Spanish.