Ellen Renaud

Ellen Renaud has represented employees in public and private sector discrimination claims since September 2002. Ms. Renaud has litigated cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the D.C. Human Rights Act. She has tried and won several cases in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Ms. Renaud has also argued before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia and Fourth Circuits seventeen times and prepared briefs in those and several more cases. In eleven of the seventeen cases argued, Ms. Renaud persuaded the Circuit Court to reverse the lower court and rule in her client's favor.

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 2002

Maryland

Since 2012

Virginia

Since 2001

4th Circuit

Since 2002

D.C. Circuit

Since 2005

American University

J.D. | Law

1999 - 2001

Honors: Magna Cum Laude Edward J. Walker Clinical Scholarship Stephen and Beatrice Dodd Toth Scholarship

Activities: American University Law Review "Women and the Law" Clinical Program

Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association

Member

Current

District of Columbia Bar

Member

2002 - Current