Jill Morrison serves as the Executive Director of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program at the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as its Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Program. She also co-teaches The First Thousand Days, a Global Health Law course focusing on laws and policies impacting the developmental period from a fetus’s conception through birth until the age of two; and she worked with a group of students to develop a Reproductive Justice curriculum for Georgetown’s Street Law program.

In addition to her work at Georgetown, she spent thirteen years at the National Women’s Law Center, where she developed legal theories to protect and advance access to comprehensive reproductive health services, and to protect the rights of vulnerable pregnant and parenting women. Prior to that, she served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Sterling Johnson Jr., of the Eastern District of New York; spent a year at the Women’s Law Project as a Philadelphia Bar Foundation Fellow; and was in private practice with Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll.

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