Sarah H. Wolking

About

Sarah H. Wolking is a Senior Legal Skills Professor, Director of the Prosecution and Wrongful Convictions Field Clinics, and Director of Externships at UF Law. After graduating from law school, she worked as a Deputy District Attorney at the Alameda County DA’s Office in Oakland, California. Wolking handled cases involving multiple murders, rapes, child molestation, and conspiracy, among others. She also worked in the juvenile and felony law and motion divisions. Professor Wolking was hired as an Assistant U.S. Attorney to launch “Project Exile,” an initiative aimed at disrupting firearm and drug trafficking between Richmond, CA, and Boise, ID. During nearly 15 years as a state and federal prosecutor, Wolking tried just under 100 jury trials. She was a professor at the University of San Francisco Law School, teaching Evidence from 2000 to 2014. During that time, she developed courses in Evidence Advocacy and Education Law and received numerous awards for excellence in teaching. She also taught in Stanford Law School’s Intensive Advocacy Skills Workshop from 1996 to 2014 and again in 2020. Additionally, she has taught advocacy courses for NITA (since 1998) and USF School of Law. Professor Wolking earned her A.B. degree from Princeton University with high honors and her JD from Boston University School of Law. She has been admitted to practice in California since 1992 and in Florida since 1994. Professor Wolking co-chairs the Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Program with Hon. Samantha Ward and serves on the Executive Council of the Criminal Law Section of The Florida Bar. She is also on the Executive Committee of the Clinical Legal Education Association.

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law
A.B., Princeton University (with high honors)

Teaching and Scholarship

Introduction to Criminal Practice, Prosecution Clinic, Externships

Courses

• Criminal Clinic – State Attorney Field Placement
• Criminal Procedure: Adversary System
• Evidence
• Externships
• Introduction to Criminal Prosecution
• Trial Practice
• Wrongful Convictions and Factual Innocence: Conviction Integrity Review