Sarah Jane Foreman

 Sarah Jane Foreman

Sarah Jane Forman was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser to the position of Associate Director in the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel and currently serves as the interim General Counsel for the Office of the State Superintendent for the District of Columbia.  She is an experienced litigator and law professor. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. She began her legal career in the juvenile unit of the Boston public defender’s office before entering private practice. Sarah has represented individuals facing criminal charges ranging from mail fraud to domestic terrorism. She has taught both clinical and doctrinal courses at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and Detroit Mercy Law School. At Detroit Mercy Law School, she created and directed a pro bono legal clinic serving children and families caught up in the school to prison pipeline. She engaged in traditional direct legal representation as well as innovative problem solving that often included a variety of tools, such as legislative advocacy, community organizing, coalition building and public education. She is a published scholar in the areas of criminal procedure, education policy and trial advocacy. She was selected as a fellow with the National Juvenile Justice Network’s Youth Justice Leadership Institute in 2011. She is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts, Missouri, Michigan and the District of Columbia.