In 2008, Ms. Carroll co-founded the Sexual Violence Law Center where she is currently the Executive Director. From 2002 to 2008, she was he Legal Director at the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP) where she provided legal training and consultation to the legal community in Washington State on improving its response to sexual violence. She has created numerous legal resource materials, including an attorney practice manual and has been a lecturer at the University of Washington, School of Law where she co-taught a course on Sexual Violence and the Law. Ms. Carroll has partnered with the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence to create Standards of Practice for Lawyers Representing Survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking in Civil Protection Order cases. Prior to her work at WCSAP, she was the Director of Legal Services at STAND! Against Domestic Violence in Contra Costa County, CA.
Ms. Carroll began her work as a crisis line counselor for battered women and then went on to become a restraining order clinic volunteer and then to law school at New College School of Law in San Francisco. Over the past fifteen years she has worked with abused women who are incarcerated; with the California Coalition for Battered Women in Prison; the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence; Bay Area Women Against Rape and WOMAN INC in San Francisco. Formerly she was a staff attorney at the Support Network for Battered Women, in Mountain View California where she focused on criminal advocacy for battered women and at the Family Violence Law Center, in Berkeley, California where she represented battered women in family law matters. Ms. Carroll is licensed to practice law in California and Washington.
