Sarah H. Wolking

Senior Lecturer and Senior Legal Skills Professor
Director of Clinical and Experiential Education
Director, Prosecution & Wrongful Convictions Field Clinics
Director, Externship Supervision

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Professor Sarah H. Wolking is a Senior Legal Skills Professor and Director of Clinical and Experiential Education at UF Law, where she directs the Prosecution and Wrongful Convictions Field Clinics and the Externship Program.

Before entering academia, Professor Wolking spent nearly 15 years as a state and federal prosecutor. As a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, California, she prosecuted serious felony cases, including murder, sexual assault, child molestation, and conspiracy, and served in the juvenile and felony law and motion divisions. She later became an Assistant U.S. Attorney, where she helped launch Project Exile, a federal initiative targeting firearm and drug trafficking. Over the course of her prosecutorial career, she tried more than 100 jury trials.

Professor Wolking has extensive experience teaching Evidence, trial advocacy, and experiential courses. She taught Evidence at the University of San Francisco School of Law from 2000 to 2014, developed courses in Evidence Advocacy and Education Law, and received numerous teaching excellence awards. She also taught in Stanford Law School’s Intensive Advocacy Skills Workshop from 1996 to 2014 and again in 2020, and has taught in advocacy programs for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 1998. At UF Law, she launched an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program course, bringing law students and incarcerated students together to learn alongside one another in a correctional institution.

She earned her A.B. with high honors from Princeton University and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in California and Florida.

Professor Wolking co-chairs the Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Program, serves on the Executive Council of The Florida Bar’s Criminal Law Section, and is co-president of the Clinical Legal Education Association.