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Elena K. Saxonhouse
Elena Saxonhouse joined the firm as a fellow in 2006. Previously, Ms. Saxonhouse was an associate attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Earthjustice, where she represented West Virginia community groups in litigation challenging mountaintop removal mining. Her position at Earthjustice followed a clerkship with the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ms. Saxonhouse received her J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School in 2004. At Stanford, Ms. Saxonhouse served as co-president and outings chair of the Environmental Law Society and an Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review. She was also on the board of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides grants to groups engaged in innovative public interest legal work. She published “Unequal Protection: Comparing Former Felons’ Challenges to Disenfranchisement and Employment Discrimination,” 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1597 (2004), which won the school’s Block Prize for the best student paper on personal freedom. Ms. Saxonhouse spent her summers during law school at the Environmental Crimes Section of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Public Defender in Oakland, California.
Prior
to law school, Ms. Saxonhouse worked for two years as an environmental
consultant, helping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency develop
and implement its Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act programs.
Ms. Saxonhouse graduated from Yale, magna cum laude, with a B.A.
in Ethics, Politics, and Economics.
Ms. Saxonhouse is licensed to practice in California, the District of
Columbia, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.