Sarah Redfield

Professor Sarah E. Redfield Sarah Redfield is Professor Emerita at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and Affiliate Professor at the University of New Hampshire Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Professor Redfield earned her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College, J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law, LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. She is a member of the Maine Bar and a Fellow of the...See more

Professor Sarah E. Redfield Sarah Redfield is Professor Emerita at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and Affiliate Professor at the University of New Hampshire Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Professor Redfield earned her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College, J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law, LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. She is a member of the Maine Bar and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Education Law is Professor Redfield's primary practice and teaching area. She spent the bulk of her teaching career at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) School of Law where in addition to her teaching and faculty service, she founded the prestigious Education Law Conference to bring educators and lawyers together in a nonconfrontational setting. She also spent several years as Visiting University Professor & Professor of Law, at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, where she focused on education law teaching and initiatives. At McGeorge she and Dean Elizabeth Parker formed the Wingspread Consortium, an informal network of law school deans and deans in education, medicine, and related disciplines. Wingspread identified and supported pipeline leaders and inspired effective pipeline programs, many of which are thriving today. While in California, Professor Redfield was appointed to the Board of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) and the Council on Access & Fairness of the State Bar of California. Professor Redfield's research and scholarship are focused on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and along the education pipeline, and the results of this work are used widely by the legal profession to achieve its DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) goals. Her current work and concentrates on implicit bias and on strategies to interrupt that bias and reduce the negative consequences of its manifestations in legal, medical, education, and workplace environments. Professor Redfield's university and public service is related to, and an integral part of, her teaching, writing, and research. With the Honorable Judge Bernice Donald (U.S. 6th Circuit), Professor Redfield is Co-Chair of the Criminal Justice Section Implicit Bias Initiative. She also serves on several high-level American Bar Association (ABA) initiatives including the ABA Criminal Justice Section Council, where she is currently Vice Chair at Large and the ABA Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council. She has previously served on the ABA Commission on Disability Rights, ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice (COREJ), and ABA Pipeline Council. Professor Redfield also works extensively on similar projects beyond the bar, including, for example, as a member of the Implicit Bias Against People with Disabilities Project/Research Group with Harvard Medical Ethicist Maggi Budd and as Co-Chair of the Neutralizing Implicit Bias Colloquium, a Joint Project with Kaiser Permanente. Professor Redfield is the 2012 recipient of the Sadie Alexander Lifetime Achievement Award for work in diversity and the education pipeline. Professor Redfield has often been a founder or founding member of task forces charged with identifying obstacles and opening the way to the profession. For example: starting in 2014, working under the auspices COREJ, she spearheaded an initiative to examine the school to prison pipeline, including outreach, town halls, and publications, all of which remain influential today. Several such initiatives have very specifically focused on women. For example... See less