Emilee Hasbrouck began her career in the Richmond Public Defender’s Office, where she served as a deputy public defender. She specialized in representing those facing sexual assault allegations, drug distribution, murder and other violent crimes. Hasbrouck then joined the Office of the Capital Defender for Central Virginia, where she defended those facing the death penalty throughout Virginia.
Following the abolition of the death penalty in Virginia, Hasbrouck was recruited by the Virginia attorney general to help create the first statewide Conviction Integrity Unit. The CIU was designed to identify, evaluate and investigate claims of wrongful conviction. Hasbrouck worked diligently to free wrongfully convicted Virginians through the pursuit of relief in post-conviction legal actions and worked closely with the Virginia governor’s administration to secure pardons and other post-conviction relief for people who had been unjustly convicted.
In 2020, Habrouck was named to Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 for her creation of the RVA Legal Collaborative, an organization which provided pro bono representation to those facing criminal charges for protesting against police brutality and for racial equity in Richmond, Virginia.
Hasbrouck joined the Ram Law Firm in 2022 so she could continue to pursue justice for her clients both at trial and in post-conviction proceedings.
Hasbrouck grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned a Bachelor’s of Science in psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 2006. She then attended the University of Richmond School of Law, where she served as an editor for the Journal of Law and Public Interest and earned her Juris Doctor in 2009.