Sarah C. Zearfoss is senior assistant dean at the University of Michigan Law School, where she directs all aspects of JD admissions and supervises the Office of Financial Aid.

At Michigan, she authored a note on international women's rights, for which she received the Law School's Eric Stein Award. Following graduation, she worked as a litigation associate in the Detroit office of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Dean Zearfoss returned to the Law School in 1999 in the capacity of judicial clerkship adviser, before joining the Admissions Office in 2001.

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Education

  • Bryn Mawr College, BA, cum laude, psychology

  • University of Michigan Law School, JD, magna cum laude, Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law, Order of the Coif, Eric Stein Award, Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship, Robert S. Feldman Labor Law Award

Clerkships

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Hon. James L. Ryan

Activities

2006–2017, 2019–present

Truman Scholar Finalists Selection Committee

2019–2021

Member, LSAC Schools and Candidates Committee

2019

Panelist, "Building a Diverse Class: Public Schools," LSAC Annual Meeting

2017–2019

Member, LSAC Newcomers Reimagined

2017

Chair, LSAC Newcomers Committee

2016

Member, LSAC Newcomers Committee

2016

Panelist, "Development Strategies for Marketing and Recruiting Top Students," NALP Annual Conference

2016

Panelist, "Decision-Making in a Race-Neutral World," LSAC Annual Meeting, 2016.