Jane Stoever
Practitioner in Residence, Domestic Violence Clinic
Office: Room 347A
Phone: 202-274-4455
E-mail: jstoever@wcl.american.edu
Jane Stoever is the Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic and a Practitioner-in-Residence. Prior to joining WCL, she taught classes on family law and trial advocacy at Georgetown University Law Center's Domestic Violence Clinic, where she was a Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow and a Graduate Teaching Fellow. Ms. Stoever's responsibilities at Georgetown Law included supervising students in all stages of litigating civil protection order cases, and representing clients in domestic violence and criminal contempt cases. She served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Michael Wolff of the Supreme Court of Missouri, and previously worked at Legal Aid of Western Missouri and Life Span Center for Legal Services and Advocacy in Chicago. Ms. Stoever is a graduate of Harvard Law School and was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where she represented women who had been abused in domestic, housing, and benefits cases.
Currently Teaching
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Harvard Law School 2003
- B.A., University of Kansas 2000
- L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center (anticipated)
