Ecclesiaste ("Clay") G. Desir joined Kellogg Hansen as an associate in 2026.
Prior to joining the firm, Clay served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michelle Childs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Editor in Chief of Volume 172 of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and President of the Black Student Law Association. He received the Fred G. Leebron Memorial Prize for the best paper in constitutional law and the Mark E. Lefever Prize for the best paper in law and economics. He graduated summa cum laude from Howard University with a B.A.