Biography
Dan Sutton is the Director of Justice and Safety at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice. He joined Stanford Law School from the Rhode Island Attorney General’s leadership team, where he designed and led criminal justice and police reform initiatives. This included an innovative program to equip police officers statewide with body-worn cameras and develop model policies. As a Special Assistant Attorney General, Dan pursued several drug manufacturers and distributors for their roles in fueling the opioid epidemic, securing hundreds of millions of dollars for communities across Rhode Island. He also advised the state’s top law enforcement official on a wide range of social, racial, and criminal justice issues.
Earlier in his career, Dan held senior economic policy positions in Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s Executive Office of Commerce, served as a senior policy advisor to the Emergency Manager of the City of Detroit during the city’s historic bankruptcy and restructuring, and was the assistant to the President’s advisor on the national security budget at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Obama-Biden Administration.
Dan received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, and is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
