Sarah Schrup
Sarah Schrup is the principal and founder of Appellate Advisory LLC, an appellate law firm and consultancy. Before starting the firm, she served as the Circuit Executive for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Sarah founded and directed Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Appellate Advocacy Center from 2006 to 2020 and is presently an adjunct professor in its Supreme Court Clinic. She has worked on more than 250 appeals in the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Northwestern faculty, Sarah served as a law clerk in the Seventh Circuit and for Rubén Castillo, former chief judge of the Northern District of Illinois. She also spent two years as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, focusing on commercial, securities and employment matters. In addition, Ms. Schrup provided writing training and coaching to law firms and bar associations, and in 2016 co-authored a textbook entitled Advanced Appellate Advocacy. Ms. Schrup serves as a Seventh Circuit Vice-Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Amicus Committee. She has been on The Women’s Board Joffrey Ballet since 2015 as well as The Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital since 2006, where she also served as its President from 2023 to 2025. She is a former trustee of the American Writers Museum. She received her Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University, and her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.