Professionally Diverse

Sarah F. Russel

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

NominatedOctober 4, 2023

Sarah F. Russell is a law professor and director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where she has taught since 2011.

  • Previously, Russell was a lecturer in law and director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School between 2007 and 2010.
  • Between 2005 and 2007, Ms. Russell was an Assistant Federal Defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut.
  • She clerked for Judge Chester J. Straub on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2003 to 2005 and for Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2002 to 2003.
  • Sarah Russell received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2002 and her B.A. from Yale College in 1998.