Jessica Eaglin

Counsel
Jessica M. Eaglin is Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program where she works on the overreliance on incarceration in the U.S. With expertise in sentencing and criminal justice legislation, Eaglin specializes in researching the broader toll of mass incarceration, reforming federal and state sentencing laws, and leads litigation efforts to reduce incarcerated populations. She brings expertise in the areas of state and federal sentencing and correctional reform, civil rights strategy and litigation, and evidence-based programming in the states. Previous to the Brennan Center, Ms. Eaglin was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at California Western School of Law, where she taught federal sentencing law and civil rights law.  
 
Jessica has also worked as a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York.  She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She obtained her J.D. from Duke University, where she simultaneously earned her M.A. in Literature and was President of the Black Law Students Association, and graduated magna cum lade from Spelman College with a B.A. in English.