Elysse Stolpe

Elysse Stolpe is the senior assistant commonwealth’s attorney for the city of Waynesboro, Virginia, where she primarily prosecutes cases involving child abuse and exploitation, sexual assault and other violent crimes. Prior to joining the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office in 2015, Stolpe practiced law in Washington, D.C., as a litigation associate in the fields of international arbitration and complex commercial litigation at the international law firm Dentons. Since 2020, she has been an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and is a member of the Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney's Services Council's child abuse prosecution training faculty.

Stolpe serves as the chair of the board of directors for New Directions Center, a nonprofit dedicated to assisting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She is also a member of the board of directors for Magnolia Rose, a nonprofit human trafficking shelter, and a member of the board of directors for CHILD USA, a national think tank for children’s civil rights. She was a commissioner for the CHILD USA Game Over Commission, an independent multidisciplinary commission investigating and analyzing the systems that enabled Larry Nassar to sexually abuse hundreds of young athletes. In the spring of 2014, Stolpe published her note “MS-13 and Domestic Juvenile Sex Trafficking: Causes, Correlates, and Solutions” in the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, the journal for which she also served as senior executive editor.

Stolpe graduated summa cum laude with honors from Hollins University in 2010, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a B.A. in history and international studies, and a certificate in leadership studies. She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2014.