Anna Carney

ANNA CARNEY focuses her practice on government investigations and enforcement, litigation, and antitrust matters.

Prior to joining Sidley, she served as a special assistant to the Mayor of New York City during the COVID-19 emergency response and advised the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on public safety policy.

Anna earned her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center where she was a member of the Federal Legislation Clinic. While at Georgetown Law, she worked as a faculty research assistant and law clerk at a global law firm in Washington, D.C.

Anna graduated magna cum laude from Pepperdine University. She obtained her B.A. in political science and received a Certificate in Conflict Management from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine School of Law.

Anna is fluent in Georgian.

Anna has extensive volunteer experience teaching debate to incarcerated individuals at Rikers Island.

She is a former fellow at the New York City Urban Fellowship, as well as the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service program at New York University (NYU).

Anna was a pro bono fellow at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), a nonpartisan watchdog nonprofit, where she worked with the investigative journalism team on corruption and abuse of power issues.