Elizabeth Reimels

Director of Policy and Advocacy, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic

Elizabeth Reimels returns to the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic as a managing attorney. Reimels comes to Emory Law from the Atlanta Legal Aid Society where she served as the director of the TeamChild Atlanta project, a project she founded in 2001 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. The project provides direct civil legal representation to children involved in the juvenile court. Her practice areas included special education, student discipline, mental health and public benefits law.

Reimels began her child advocacy career as a student attorney with the Barton Clinic and participated in the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program. During law school, Reimels clerked for the Fulton County Juvenile Court Office of Program Development, the DeKalb County Juvenile Court Office of the Child Advocate and Cobb County Legal Aid.

Reimels received her BA from Boston University and her JD from the Emory Law.