Sarah Pitlyk

Special Counsel

Sarah Pitlyk joined the Thomas More Society as Special Counsel after practicing for several years at a civil litigation boutique in St. Louis, MO, where she worked on an embryo custody appeal and amicus briefs in several landmark pro-life and religious liberty cases in addition to contract, employment, and tax disputes.  At TMS, she is part of a team defending undercover journalists against civil lawsuits and criminal charges resulting from an investigation of illegal fetal tissue trafficking.  She also worked to defeat St. Louis’s unconstitutional “abortion sanctuary city” ordinance.

Before moving to St. Louis, Sarah practiced food and drug regulatory law for three years at a large Washington, DC, law firm.  From 2010 to 2011, she clerked for the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Before receiving her J.D. from Yale Law School, Sarah graduated summa cum laude from Boston College and earned master’s degrees from Georgetown University (in Philosophy) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (in Applied Biomedical Ethics) in Belgium, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.

Sarah lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Mark, and their four children.