Karen Moran

After graduating from Duke Law School in 1988, Karen Moran clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She then worked for several years as a general civil litigation attorney for Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright). Moran left private practice to become an appellate attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she stayed for five years. After moving to Charlottesville in 1998, Moran rejoined Fulbright & Jaworski in an “of counsel” position where she specialized in appellate law with concentrations in employment and labor law as well as higher education law. In 2005, Moran joined the UVA Law faculty as co-director of the Legal Research and Writing Program. After an absence from the Law School from 2016-18, Moran came back to teach Graduate Legal Research and Writing as a lecturer. In 2023, she was reappointed to the faculty as the director of the Graduate Writing Program.

Moran earned her B.A. with honors in psychology and French from Emory University in 1985. She earned her law degree with high honors from Duke University School of Law in 1988, and was a note editor for the Duke Law Journal.