Sadie McLaughlin
Sadie McLaughlin is a policy attorney with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Austin. Before joining the agency, she was a staff attorney at the Texas Advocacy Project, where she began her work as a Mike A. Myers Fellow in Public Interest Law. Her fellowship focused on the intersection of gun violence and intimate partner violence, with particular attention to the experiences of survivors in rural communities. The fellowship was funded by Mike A. Myers ’63 and administered by the Justice Center.
At Texas Law, Sadie was president of Texas Law Fellowships, staff editor of the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy, a member of the Public Interest Law Association and the Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association, and a director of Assault & Flattery, the law school’s musical parody theatre troupe. She volunteered for a number of pro bono projects, including Pro Bono in January, and was a student in the Immigration Clinic and the Domestic Violence Clinic. She spent her 1L summer with the Texas Advocacy Project and her 2L summer with the Family Violence Division of the Travis County Attorney’s Office, both in Austin.