Lindsay Carlson

Lindsay and her husband, Scott, chose to make their home in Culver City because of its excellent public schools. They have a son who currently attends El Marino in the Japanese Immersion Program (JIP). Lindsay believes that school systems thrive when we put our students and our educators first, and with the right focus and ability to build relationships with each other and across the community, we can have both equity and excellence and our schools will be among the best in Los Angeles County.

Lindsay grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of a public high school German teacher and an engineer. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from Gustavus Adolphus College, she moved to Los Angeles to attend the UCLA School of Law, from which she graduated in 2004. Lindsay’s work as a lawyer includes a judicial clerkship for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Paul H. Anderson (ret.), and more than a decade as a litigator and trial attorney in private practice, including as a partner at a national law firm. She currently works as in-house counsel for a major international law firm, overseeing a team of attorneys who handle a variety of information governance issues and ensure the firm’s management of information meets applicable legal, ethical, security and privacy requirements everywhere it operates around the world.

From 2019 to 2024, Lindsay served on the Board of the National Association of Women Lawyers, the premier national bar affinity organization that advocates for the equality of women under the law and the advancement of women in the legal profession. In that capacity, she led NAWL's initiative to establish an advocacy committee, served as the Board's liaison to its amicus committee, and had the honor of serving as the Board's representative on NAWL's Supreme Court committee when it produced its statement of qualification for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She has also done pro bono work as a lawyer helping unhoused people obtain services, assisting foster parents seeking to adopt children, and representing an elderly victim of a predatory debt collector. While at UCLA Law, she served as a law student mentor to undergraduate students in the school's Law Fellows program, which aims to encourage and prepare high-potential undergraduate and graduate students for a career in law, increase the pipeline of diverse students interested in law, and demystify the law school experience. Lindsay previously served on the board of Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County, an after-school program for elementary and middle school girls that teaches them confidence and kindness while integrating physical activity and ultimately culminating in a season-ending celebratory community 5K.

In their spare time, Lindsay and her family enjoy hiking, traveling, and cheering on the Los Angeles Kings.