Sharon A Meadows
Philip and Muriel Barnett Professor of Trial Advocacy
Faculty Emeritus
meadowss@usfca.edu
(415) 422-6202
Biography
Professor Sharon A. Meadows was the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice Clinics. She was appointed by Chief Judge Robert Peckham of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as the compliance monitor for a Title VII Consent Decree in the construction industry. In 1994, she assisted in the establishment of a Criminal/Juvenile Law Clinic at the University of the West Cape in South Africa, and returned to South Africa in 1998 and 2002 to assist in the establishment of a pilot public defender system.
- Education
- BA, Cornell University
- MA, Cornell University
- JD, University of Michigan
- Experience
- Assistant Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California
- Chief Counsel, Bayview-Hunters Point Community Defender
- Trial Attorney, San Francisco Public Defender
- Staff Attorney, Romines, Tooby, Eichner & Sorenson
- Expertise
- Access to Justice
- Clinical Education
- Criminal Procedure
- Indigent Defense
- Juvenile Law
- Law Review and Journal Articles
- “Implementing the Right to Counsel in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” 29 George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics 453 (1995). SSRN
- Presentations
- Presenter, “Grand Jury Practice and Community Prosecution,” Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Symposium , Hastings School of Law, San Francisco, CA (November, 2015)
- Presenter, “Representing Delinquency Clients in a Repressive Climate,” Juvenile Justice Summit, Houtson
- Presenter, “The Criminalization of Poverty,” Society of American Law Teachers Conference,, “Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities,” San Francisco, Calif. (March 2010)
- Presenter, “The State of Juvenile Justice,” National Defender Summit, (2002)
- Presenter, “The State of Juvenile Justice in 2002,” Suffolk Law School Juvenile Justice Forum, Boston, Mass. (2002)
- Media
- "Pressure persists to sanction Stanford rape judge", SFBay News, 08/24/2016
- "Behind the closed doors of the juvenile system", San Francisco Chronicle, 08/30/2008
- "Murder case raises issues of recanting", The Recorder, 07/14/2008
- Service
- President, First District Appellate Project (2009 to present) (2012)
- Member, Pacific Juvenile Defender Center (2012)
- Member, S.F. Bar Association Criminal Justice Advisory Council (2012)
- Liaison, University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Youth Commission (2012)
- Invited Participant, Open Society Institute's National Crack the Disparity Lobby Day, Washington, D.C. (2010)