Matthew Littleton

Matt Littleton was appointed as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 2022. He began his legal career as an Honors Attorney in the Division's Appellate Section, where for six years he briefed and argued appeals spanning the breadth of the Division's work.

Matt then spent four years as counsel and, later, partner at a small private firm—now known as Donahue & Goldberg, LLP—where he represented environmental nonprofits, municipalities, and an environmental response trust in various suits filed under the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, the Natural Gas Act, the Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation Clause, and more.

Matt is a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School. He clerked for the Honorable William C. Bryson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.