Sarah C. Slinger serves as the Alexander Campbell King Law Library’s associate director for research services. In this role, she is the primary liaison between the law library and the law school’s faculty, supervises the library’s Research Assistant Program and leads classes in legal research, administrative law research and environmental law research.
She came to Athens from Florida International University, where she served as the head of instructional services law librarian & adjunct professor for three years. She has also worked at the law libraries at the University of Miami, the University of Michigan and The University of Arizona.
Slinger is active in the American Association of Law Libraries and the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. In addition to serving on the editorial board of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, she has published articles in the Law Library Journal, the University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review and the Journal of Legal Policy & Pandemics.
Slinger earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Saint Joseph’s University, her J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School and her M.L.I.S. from The University of Arizona.
Having joined the law library’s team during the 2023–24 academic year, Brandy Ellis is the research services librarian supporting law school faculty. She also teaches first-year, advanced and specialized legal research courses; provides legal reference services and serves on the library leadership team.
Before coming to UGA, Ellis worked as the research librarian and head of access services at the University of Notre Dame Kresge Law Library, where she taught introductory and advanced legal research courses, managed library circulation staff, participated in the faculty liaison program and assisted library patrons with a variety of instructional and research queries.
After earning her law degree, she was an associate in the emerging companies group in Cooley’s New York City office and Fenwick & West’s Seattle office.
Ellis earned her bachelor’s degree from Antioch College, her Juris Doctor cum laude from Fordham University and her Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in law librarianship from the University of Washington.
