Juliet Sorensen

A criminal attorney and prosecutor for nearly seven years, Juliet Sorensen invests her work with impeccable professional and academic records. Born to notable speechwriter and attorney Ted Sorensen and diplomat Gillian Sorensen, Juliet Sorensen benefited from her early exposure to high-ranking political operatives and developed an early interest in governmental affairs. An exemplary student in high school, Juliet Sorensen gained admission to Princeton University, where for four years she studied a wide range of subjects, including politics, French, and Near Eastern studies. In the midst of her academic career at Princeton, Juliet Sorensen spent a semester abroad at Paris Diderot University (Université de Paris VII) and honed her understanding of foreign affairs and the French language. In addition, Juliet Sorensen passed the summer of 1993 as an intern for The International Herald Tribune in Paris. Graduating cum laude from Princeton in June 1995, Juliet Sorensen earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and a Certificate in Near Eastern Studies.

Following graduation from Princeton, Juliet Sorensen joined the United States Peace Corps as a Maternal and Child Health Volunteer in Morocco. From July 1995 through July 1997, Juliet Sorensen lived and worked in the Tinzouline region, where she focused her time and energy on various projects to improve sanitation, sustainability, and public health education. Returning to the U.S. at the end of this period, Juliet Sorensen enrolled at Columbia Law School in New York City and continued to pursue her interests in global affairs. An honors student at Columbia Law School, Juliet Sorensen won a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholarship and served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. In May 2000, Juliet Sorensen graduated with a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and soon began a one-year clerkship under Federal Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr. in Boston. Upon successful completion of her clerkship, Juliet Sorensen became an associate at Foley Hoag LLP and, later, an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.

Beginning in August 2010, Juliet Sorensen will serve as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law and a Senior Lecturer at the Kellogg School of Management.