Before joining Elon Law, Professor Fitzgerald served as a Faculty Fellow at New England Law | Boston, where she taught Criminal Law, Incarceration & the Law, Torts, and Insurance Law. Professor Fitzgerald’s current scholarship centers on the intersection of the criminal justice system and juvenile law, with a particular focus on juvenile justice reform.

Following law school, she was a law clerk, first with the New Hampshire Superior Court and then to the Honorable Carol Ann Conboy of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. After her clerkships, she served as an Assistant County Attorney in New Hampshire, focusing on sexual assault and domestic violence cases. Professor Fitzgerald also served as an Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Chief of the Homicide Unit in the Criminal Justice Bureau of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.

Professor Fitzgerald was Chair of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association, an organization dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in the legal community. She also served as an instructor for the Law Division of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing supplemental support to law students from underrepresented communities.

Professor Fitzgerald earned a B.A. in psychology and criminal justice from Stonehill College, and a J.D. from New England Law | Boston where she served as an Executive Comment & Note Editor of the New England Law Review.