Sarah F. Russell

Sarah F. Russell (born 1976) is an American lawyer and law school professor. She is the nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Education
Russell received a Bachelor of Arts from the Yale University in 1998 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2002.
Career
She served as a law clerk for then-Chief Judge Michael Mukasey of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2002 to 2003 and for Judge Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007, Russell was an Assistant Federal Defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut. From 2007 to 2010, she was a lecturer in law and director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School. Since 2011, Russell is a law professor and director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law in North Haven, Connecticut. On November 1, 2023, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During her confirmation hearing, Republicans fiercely denounced her support for criminal justice reform and claimed she would be a threat to public safety. Senator John Kennedy brought up a letter she wrote to Governor Ned Lamont recommending widespread release of violent felons during the COVID-19 pandemic and accused her of deliberately concealing the letter from the Senate. On November 30, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11-10 vote. On January 3, 2024, her nomination was returned to the president under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate and she was renominated on January 8, 2024. On January 18, 2024, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11-10 vote. Her nomination is pending before the United States Senate.

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