13 things about Summit, New Jersey native Alina Habba

Alina Saad Habba and her two siblings were all born in Summit, New Jersey, United States. Their parents Saad F. Habba and Janan Habba are Assyrian and Chaldean Catholics.

BIOGRAPHY

Alina is an Assyrian-American lawyer and political advisor. She and her first husband Matthew Eyet have two children together namely Chloe Eyet and Luke Eyet.

Parker Reuben is Alina’s stepchild. He is her second husband Gregg Reuben‘s son from a previous marriage.

In 2013, Matthew formed Sandelands Eyet in Bedminster, New Jersey. In 2020, Alina started her law firm Habba, Madaio and Associates LLP, which has offices in Bedminster and Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Aside from New Jersey and New York, Alina is also licensed to practice law in Connecticut, USA. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 2002, she graduated from Kent Place School in Summit.
2. In 2005, she graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
3. Between 2005 and 2007, she worked in the fashion industry in accessories production and marketing with executives at Marc Jacobs‘ fashion line.
4. In 2010, she graduated from the Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with a Juris Doctor.
5. From 2010 to 2011, she was a law clerk to Eugene J. Codey Jr., the then presiding judge of the Civil Superior Court in Essex County, New Jersey.
6. From 2011 to 2019, she was married to Matthew.
7. From 2011 to 2013, she was a Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, LLP associate in Roseland, New Jersey.
8. From 2013 to 2020, she was a Sandlelands Eyet equity partner and managing partner.
9. She gave birth to Luke in 2014 and Chloe in 2016.
10. She and Gregg met at a party in New York City in 2018 and got married in 2020.
11. In 2019, she joined the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster where she met Donald Trump.
12. In 2021, she joined Trump’s legal team.
13. On March 25, 2025, she turned 41.

TIMELINE

Alina is a Republican. She enjoyed the fashion industry but for financial reasons, she decided to attend law school.

2010s

• In September 2011, she began her private practice as a lawyer by joining Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry.
• On September 10, 2011, she and Matthew got married.
• In February 2013, she left Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry and joined Sandlelands Eyet.

2020s

• In March 2020, she left Sandlelands Eyet and started Habba, Madaio and Associates.
• In September 2021, Trump hired her as part of his legal team and she filed a $100 million lawsuit on his behalf against The New York Times, three reporters of the publication and Mary L. Trump, which was dismissed by the judge for failing as a matter of constitutional law.
• In October 2021, on Trump’s behalf, she filed a countersuit against Summer Zervos, who filed a defamation lawsuit against him on January 17, 2017, and in November 2021, Zervos discontinued the lawsuit.
• In February 2022, she unsuccessfully tried to prevent Trump from being required to give a sworn statement in an investigation led by New York attorney general Letitia James.
• On July 19, 2022, her former employee Na’Syia Drayton sued her, accusing her of repeatedly singing inappropriate gangster rap and hip hop music, and in September 2022, the lawsuit was settled out of court.
• In September 2022, U.S. District Court judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed a lawsuit she brought for Trump against public officials and private citizens including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Clinton, Jake Sullivan and John Podesta.
• In December 2024, Trump named her as his Counselor to the President.
• On March 24, 2025, Trump announced that she would become interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey but on July 22, 2025, a panel of judges on the court for the district declined to retain her and appointed her first assistant Desiree Leigh Grace, who was promptly fired by U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi.
• On August 20, 2025, Matthew Brann, a federal judge, ruled that she was not lawfully serving as a U.S. attorney general overseeing federal prosecutions in New Jersey.