Sarah Connell is currently an Assistant Attorney General with the Domestic Violence and Special Victims Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. In the past seventeen years, she has conducted hundreds of trials in D.C. Superior Court. She has prosecuted criminal violations of protection orders, indecent exposure cases, and juvenile cases of domestic violence, sexual assault and more. She also handles Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) cases and serves as the Section’s point of contact for all ERPO training and policy matters. In 2017 and 2018, Sarah completed a six month detail as a Special Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, during which she prosecuted a variety of domestic violence offenses. From 2004 to 2008, Sarah was a Senior Staff Attorney at Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE), where she represented domestic violence survivors in divorce, child custody, child support and civil protection order litigation. Prior to joining WEAVE, she was at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, where she was a Skadden Fellow representing domestic violence survivors. Before law school, Sarah worked for about five years as a Program and Policy Analyst with the Violence Against Women Office (now Office on Violence Against Women) at the U.S. Department of Justice, and for about four years at a domestic violence shelter in California, where she co-developed a training program for local police departments.