Sarah E. Pitlyk has served as District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2019. She graduated from Yale Law School, after earning her bachelor’s degree from Boston College and master’s degrees from Georgetown University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Immediately before taking the bench, Judge Pitlyk served as Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm, after earlier tenures at a small civil litigation boutique in St. Louis, MO, and Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, as well as a clerkship for the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh when he was a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.