Anna Collins Peterson

Anna Collins Peterson is a senior associate at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP.

Anna has worked on a wide range of litigation matters while at KHF including representing universities on issues related to Title IX and student discipline, advising clients on sensitive investigations, preparing witnesses for public testimony, and representing clients in complex civil litigation. She served as the lead associate on the firm’s representation of universities in Title IX litigation, mediations, faculty disciplinary proceedings, and a response to an investigation by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Anna has also represented multiple clients in responding to politically sensitive government subpoenas.

Anna maintains an active public interest practice, including representing constitutional law scholars as amicus curiae opposing Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban and representing church-state scholars as amicus curiae advocating adherence to school prayer precedent, both before the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, she was selected to join the 2024 class of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD) Pathfinder Program.

She joined the firm after completing clerkships for the Hon. James A. Wynn, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Hon. Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Anna graduated summa cum laude from the University of  Wisconsin Law School, where she was first in her class. Prior to law school, Anna worked as the traveling exhibits coordinator for the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, as a corporate trainer at a software company, and interned in the curator’s office of the Supreme Court of the United States. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.