Sally McCarthy

Dean McCarthy's responsibilities include curriculum development and course scheduling for the J.D. program. She assists in the supervision of the J.D. adjunct faculty program, oversees content development for various Law Center publications, and provides student academic counseling. Dean McCarthy joined Georgetown Law in 2001 as director of J.D. Academic Services. Before coming to the Law Center, she worked as a lawyer at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in Washington, D.C., and at MFY Legal Services, Brooklyn Legal Services and the Legal Action Center in New York. She received a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.