Sarah Crawford

Sarah Crawford is a staff attorney for the Employment Discrimination Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, litigating cases involving discrimination in the workplace. She handles employment matters through all phases of their processing from the administrative filing, at trial, and through appeal.

Ms. Crawford graduated with honors from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a degree in government. She also received her law degree from the William and Mary School of Law, where she served as a member of the editorial staff of the Bill of Rights Journal. While in law school, Sarah worked for a Richmond law firm, the Richmond City Attorney’s Office, Virginia’s Department of Employee Relations Counselors, and the General Counsel’s Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Immediately prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Sarah worked as an attorney with the United States Department of Labor for five years. On behalf of the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Sarah represented the interests of employees of federal contractors in class action employment discrimination litigation. Sarah helped to obtain successful outcomes in cases against a number of large corporations. She also assisted in the development of the Department's position in employment-related cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Sarah is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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