Susie has spent the last 35 years of her legal career as Public Service Partner at Crowell & Moring where she promotes, supervises, and participates in the firm’s pro bono work which ranges from representation of the homeless, immigrants, and indigent criminal defendants to assisting domestic violence victims in obtaining protection orders to racial justice and other “impact” litigation. Susie has been active in D.C. Bar activities, elected as D.C. Bar President in 2019 after having served two previous terms on the Board of Governors. She is a commissioner on the D.C. Access to Justice Commission, currently serving her second term. Susie is also a past co-chair of the D.C. Circuit Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services and past president of the D.C. Bar Foundation and the Washington Council of Lawyers. Susie has been active on a number of nonprofit boards, starting with service on the board of My Sister’s Place back in 1986 and currently serves on the boards of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and the Washington Council of Lawyers.

Susie earned her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and her J.D. from the George Washington Law School. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Harold H. Greene at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She worked at Hogan & Hartson in their litigation division before joining Crowell & Moring in 1988. Susie has received the Legal Aid Society’s Servant of Justice Award, the Washington Council of Lawyers’ Presidents Award, the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment & Appeals Project Founder’s Award, the Law Students in Court “Celebration of Service Award” and the Whitman-Walker Clinic Outstanding Volunteer Mentor award. Susie was one of the first recipients of the George Washington Law School Belva Lockwood Award for distinction as a role model for women attorneys.


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