This TJ alum helped defend the school in court. Now she’s defending DEI.

They gathered a group of alumni and filed a brief in support of the Fairfax County school district in the case. Then they asked Donald B. Verrilli, a partner at their firm and a former Obama administration solicitor general, for help. Soon, the three lawyers and others from their firm were on the team as the case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. “TJ was the way that I first really got into it because of how close it was connected to me,” Hu said. “From studying...