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About me
Sarah Kostick has been an attorney with the Pima County Public Defender’s Office since 2014; she has handled all levels of felony matters, including capital cases, as well as Sexually Violent Person commitment proceedings. In July of 2021 she became a supervisor of a felony trial team, and in May of 2022 she was appointed as the Chief Assistant Public Defender for Pima County. Sarah regularly lectures and teaches continuing legal education programming around the state of Arizona, and provides pro bono consultation on various criminal defense matters, with an emphasis on the representation of seriously mentally ill individuals, development of sentencing mitigation, and the representation of youthful offenders. Sarah is also a part-time adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law, where she has taught and directed the Criminal Defense Clinic since 2017.
Prior to joining Pima County, she served as resource counsel for the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, consulted for the Arizona Capital Representation Project, clerked for Ohio’s Eleventh District Court of Appeals, practiced special education and school law with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, and clerked for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Sarah is a 2010 graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a 2005 graduate of Smith College. She was born and raised in Berkeley, CA.
