AYLIN IS A LIFELONG NEW ORLEANIAN, CIVIC LEADER, ATTORNEY AND MOTHER.
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Aylin has disaster recovery experience of working in the Orleans Parish court system during and after Hurricane Katrina.
EXPERIENCED | KNOWLEDGABLE | COMPASSIONATE
Aylin started her legal career as a law clerk for the Hon. Nadine Ramsey in Civil District Court, during which she presided over dozens of personal injury, toxic tort, medical malpractice and products liability cases, including the groundbreaking Agricultural Street Landfill (Gordon Plaza) case. Aylin's clerkship was extended to help with the post-Katrina emergency disaster recovery of Civil District Court. Aylin also clerked for the Hon. Terri Love in the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Aylin was an associate at Kanner & Whitely, LLC, specializing in national consumer fraud, toxic tort and environmental class action litigation.
Aylin was the legal analyst for the Bureau of Governmental Research, during which time her research exposed critical flaws in the post-Katrina school facilities funding plan. Aylin has litigated cased in state and federal courts in Louisiana, California, Illinois and Iowa. Aylin was Legislative Director for Councilmember Nadine Ramsey, where she worked on rewriting the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, Living Wage Ordinance, Fire Fighter's pension litigation, police pay raises, electric vehicle ordinance, and many more important policies that improve the quality of life of New Orleanians.
Aylin started her own law practice in 2018 representing individuals, small business in a general practice. Aylin also provides litigation support to ADZ Law, a family law and crime victims firm in San Mateo, California that provides significant pro bono work for victims of domestic violence.
Aylin was an associate at Kanner & Whitely, LLC, specializing in national consumer fraud, toxic tort and environmental class action litigation.
Aylin was the legal analyst for the Bureau of Governmental Research, during which time her research exposed critical flaws in the post-Katrina school facilities funding plan. Aylin has litigated cased in state and federal courts in Louisiana, California, Illinois and Iowa. Aylin was Legislative Director for Councilmember Nadine Ramsey, where she worked on rewriting the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, Living Wage Ordinance, Fire Fighter's pension litigation, police pay raises, electric vehicle ordinance, and many more important policies that improve the quality of life of New Orleanians.
Aylin started her own law practice in 2018 representing individuals, small business in a general practice. Aylin also provides litigation support to ADZ Law, a family law and crime victims firm in San Mateo, California that provides significant pro bono work for victims of domestic violence.
EDUCATION
- Alice Harte Elementary, Isidore Newman middle school, and Benjamin Franklin High School.
- Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude), George Washington University Elliott School.
- Law Degree, Tulane Law School (Moot Court, Editor International Law Journal, Environmental Law Clinic, Legislative Advocacy Clinic)
Bar Admissions: Louisiana (2005), Florida (2011)
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
In addition to running for office Aylin is working with domestic abuse advocate to propose legislation expand the definition of domestic abuse to include emotional and financial abuse and to establish a pilot program in New Orleans to provide tax-free college savings for kindergartener's who meet federal poverty guidelines.
Aylin Acikalin is also an experienced community mediator trained by Community Mediation Services and the New York Peace Institute. Aylin is active member of her community. After Hurricane Katrina, Aylin formed and was the president of the Marlyville Neighborhood Association to fight for viability of her flooded neighborhood and later, Friends of Brechtel Park to raise money to refurbish the park and plant trees. Aylin was also a board member of the New Orleans Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, and currently serves as a Board Member of the Maple Area Residents Inc. (MARI) neighborhood association and was a founding board member of the New Orleans Loving Festival. Aylin is an alumni of the inaugural class of Emerge Louisiana.
Current/former member: New Orleans Bar Association, Louisiana Association for Justice, Junior League, National Council of Jewish Women, First Grace United Methodist ChurchAylin has served our community well beyond her substantial legal background and administration of justice.
Aylin Acikalin is also an experienced community mediator trained by Community Mediation Services and the New York Peace Institute. Aylin is active member of her community. After Hurricane Katrina, Aylin formed and was the president of the Marlyville Neighborhood Association to fight for viability of her flooded neighborhood and later, Friends of Brechtel Park to raise money to refurbish the park and plant trees. Aylin was also a board member of the New Orleans Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, and currently serves as a Board Member of the Maple Area Residents Inc. (MARI) neighborhood association and was a founding board member of the New Orleans Loving Festival. Aylin is an alumni of the inaugural class of Emerge Louisiana.
Current/former member: New Orleans Bar Association, Louisiana Association for Justice, Junior League, National Council of Jewish Women, First Grace United Methodist ChurchAylin has served our community well beyond her substantial legal background and administration of justice.
Democrat
Aylin is a lifelong Democrat who served on the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee, 2016-2020