Gladys Limón, J.D.
Appointed May 2026 by the Senate Rules Committee
Term ends December 31, 2030
Gladys Limón is the Director of Climate and Environmental Justice at the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law, where she brings over 20 years of experience in complex impact litigation, policy, and community-based work in environmental justice and civil rights.
Before joining the State Impact Center, Gladys was the Executive Director of the California Environmental Justice Alliance. Prior to that, she was a senior staff attorney at Communities for a Better Environment. Gladys has extensive experience working on behalf of immigrant communities, including as a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund. She previously also served as an attorney at Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP and a fellow associate attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
Gladys holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and clerked for the late Hon. Lawrence K. Karlton and the Hon. Fernando M. Olguin in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Central Districts of California.