Carolyn Ikari has been an assistant US attorney in the Civil Division of the District of Connecticut for 25 years. Her practice focuses on trials of employment matters in which she represents various federal agencies, such as the Departments of Labor, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and the US Postal Service. She also litigates a wide variety of civil matters, including immigration, tax, Freedom of Information, military records, prisoner cases, and Medicare.
Attorney Ikari serves on the CBA Federal Practice Section Executive Committee and as co-chair of the Government and Public Sector Committee, is the former president of the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund (CWEALF), and is the current vice president of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She has spoken and presented on several occasions about her family's experience with Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the racially segregated US Army unit, the 442nd RCT.