Jarrett Perlow



Jarrett B. Perlow is the Chief Deputy Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, where he manages the daily operations of the clerk’s office, including intake, case administration and management, courtroom services, jury and naturalization services, and attorney admissions. He also functions as the legal advisor to the clerk and the court on operational and administrative matters. Before joining the District of Maryland, he served as a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, reviewing courts-martial appeals and petitions for extraordinary relief, and as a staff attorney and law clerk at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, reviewing habeas corpus petitions, prisoner civil rights actions, and other federal claims brought by self-represented litigants.

He is admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia (as well as before several federal courts). He entered the legal profession after graduating cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law, where he was Editor in Chief of the Administrative Law Review. Before attending law school, he worked in the communications office of the U.S. Department of Education and earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from American University. He has been teaching in the Legal Rhetoric Program since January 2006.



Currently Teaching

  • LAW-516-027 LegalRhetoric:Wrtng&Rsrch I


Degrees & Universities

  • J.D., American University Washington College of Law 2004
  • B.A., American University 2000