Katelin Shugart-Schmidt
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Law
Specialization(s)
Lawyering Process, Appellate Practice, Environmental Law
Professional Biography
Katelin Shugart-Schmidt teaches Lawyering Process, guiding first-year law students in developing the research, writing, and argument skills essential for practicing attorneys. Before joining the faculty, Katelin served as an appellate specialist within the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she was lead counsel on a wide variety of matters and briefed and argued civil cases in federal appellate courts on natural resources, pollution control, administrative procedure, and constitutional and public lands law. She previously clerked for Judge Carlos F. Lucero on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, taught as an assistant professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School, and mentored students through The Appellate Project.
Katelin is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Law Review. She lives in Denver with her husband and their two sons.
Degree(s)
- JD, The George Washington University Law School, 2018
- MS, Fisheries and Wildlife Science, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 2012
- BS, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 2010
