Jordan Hughes

Biography

Jordan Hughes is an Associate in Berger Montague’s Minneapolis office and practices in the Firm’s Environmental, Consumer Protection, and Mass Tort departments.

Jordan was recognized as a member of a 2023 Minnesota Lawyer Legal Team of the Year, for his prior work helping to represent a neighborhood group in Minneapolis in an environmental lawsuit against the city and state agencies.

Prior to joining the firm, Jordan served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Susan Richard Nelson in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, and to the Honorable Keala C. Ede in the Hennepin County District Court and the Hennepin County Juvenile Justice Center.

Jordan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he received a class award for public service and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he practiced as a student attorney and director for the Consumer Protection Clinic, served as executive editor for the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, and worked as a research assistant to multiple tenured professors. He also clerked for Earthjustice, and for the Office of the Federal Defender, District of Minnesota.

Prior to law school, Jordan spent several months in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where he worked in the education sector of the coordinated humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Before that, Jordan worked as a case expert on complex and international cases for the Office of the Federal Defender, Eastern District of Missouri. Jordan earned his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied international affairs and Arabic.