Karen Worthington

Director of the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic

Karen Worthington came to Emory in 2000 as the Barton Fellow, directing the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic and teaching child advocacy.

Prior to coming to Emory she was director of program development for Fulton County Juvenile Court. She also worked as a staff attorney with the Juvenile Advocacy Division of Georgia Indigent Defense Council and director of the Georgia Supreme Court Child Placement Project. Her publications include "Once We Know Who, What, And Where, Will We Ask Why? Demographics and Dispositions of Children Processed in the Adult Criminal Justice System in Georgia," Quinnipiac Law Review 3 (1999).

Education: BA, Eckerd College, 1990; JD, Emory University School of Law, 1994.