Alina Habba

Alina Habba (born March 25, 1984) is an Assyrian-American lawyer and Managing Partner of Habba, Madaio & Associates LLP, a legal firm based in Bedminster, New Jersey with offices in New York City. She represents former President of the United States, Donald Trump. She is also a senior advisor for MAGA, Inc., Trump's Super PAC. Early life and education Habba and her two siblings were born in Summit, New Jersey, to Assyrian parents who emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the early 1980s to escape persecution. Her father, Saad F. Habba, is a gastroenterologist. Habba graduated from Kent Place School in 2002, and attended Lehigh University, graduating in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in political science. She obtained a J.D. from the Widener University Commonwealth Law School, in 2010. Between 2005 and 2007, Habba had been working in the fashion industry, in accessories production and marketing with executives at Marc Jacobs. According to her, although she enjoyed the fashion industry, she decided to attend law school for financial reasons. Law career After finishing law school, Habba served as a law clerk to Eugene J. Codey Jr., then Presiding Judge of the Civil Superior Court in Essex County, New Jersey from September 2010 until September 2011. Habba began private practice in September 2011, when she joined as an associate at Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, LLP, where she worked from September 2011 to February 2013. From February 2013 to March 2020, she was an equity partner and the Managing Partner of Sandelands Eyet LLP, a mid-sized firm that serviced a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group. After her 7-year tenure at the firm, she left to start her own company in March 2020. Her firm, Habba, Madaio and Associates LLP, employs five people. Along with the New Jersey office, Habba has an office in Manhattan.