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Portrait of Emilie Ninan

Emilie R. Ninan

Commissioner

Biography

Emilie R. Ninan is a partner at Ballard Spahr LLP, a full-service Am Law 100 Firm with 600 lawyers in 15 offices. A former Office Managing Partner of the firm’s Delaware office, she currently serves as the Chair of the firm’s Public Finance Department and a member of the firm’s Expanded Board. In that role, Emilie oversees national strategy and administration for the firm’s public finance department across the country. In addition, she maintains an active legal practice focused on obtaining lower-cost financing for capital projects through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for the benefit of educational and health care institutions, other 501(c) organizations, affordable housing developers, manufacturers and state and local government She also represents corporate and bank clients in commercial real estate lending matters, contract negotiation and other finance transactions.

Emilie, a past President of the South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA) and the founding President of the South Asian Bar Association of Delaware (SABA-DE), is the recipient of multiple awards in recognition of her leadership and dedication to advancing diversity in the legal profession, including DuPont’s Hinton J. Lucas, Jr., Torchbearer Award and Pennsylvania Diversity Council’s Leadership Excellence in Law Award. She was also a member of a trade mission delegation to India led by former Delaware Governor Jack Markell, profiled by Law 360 as a Female Powerbroker and recognized as an Influential Woman in Business by Delaware Today. Emilie is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), Georgetown University School of Business (M.B.A.) and Temple University (B.B.A., summa cum laude).