Andrew Udelsman joined FJI in 2023. After receiving his B.A. from Yale University, he spent two years serving with the Peace Corps in Rwanda and one year teaching at NYU Abu Dhabi. He then attended law school and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2017.
Upon graduation, he clerked for Justice Lidia Stiglich at the Supreme Court of Nevada, and then Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood at the U.S District Court of Guam. He then began a fellowship with the Texas Civil Rights Project, litigating civil rights cases on behalf of immigrants and asylum-seekers in south Texas. He then returned to Nevada, where he served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender, litigating habeas cases on behalf of prisoners sentenced to the death penalty.
He moved to Miami in 2022 and clerked once again, first as a pro se law clerk at the U.S. district Court in the Southern District of Florida, and then as a law clerk for Judge Beth Bloom.
He is a member of the New York Bar.