Jay Jyoti Chaudhuri serves as Special Counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he attended public school. Jay graduated from Davidson College, with a major in South Asian Studies, earned an M.I.A. from Columbia University through a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, and received his J.D. from North Carolina Central University, cum laude, where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Journal. Jay manages a number of the Attorney General's initiatives, primarily on education and children issues. Earlier this year, he completed a William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations, a two-year fellowship awarded to North Carolinians for leadership development. This fall he will visit five European cities as an American Marshall Memorial Fellow.

Prior to attending graduate school, he convened the first National Indian American Students Conference held at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. After Columbia, Jay served as a legislative aide to United States Senator Russell D. Feingold. He also clerked for the Honorable Linda M. McGee of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and served as legislative counsel to Roy Cooper, when he was State Senate Majority Leader.

Jay is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association's Race Relations Committee, Brown v. Board of Education Commemorative Committee and the North Carolina Black Lawyers' Association. He serves on the board of directors of the Indian American Leadership Incubator and serves as a commentator on current events for the Indian-American weekly, News India Times. In addition, Jay is a tutor at Smith Elementary School in Garner, North Carolina.