Ellie Driscoll is a Civil Rights Fellow at Relman Colfax. She joined the firm in 2026 and works in the civil rights litigation and counseling groups.
Before joining Relman Colfax, Ellie clerked for the Honorable Michael S. Nachmanoff of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Honorable Catherine F. Easterly of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Ellie also served as a Liman-Meselson Fellow with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, where she litigated systemic civil rights cases related to disability rights, access to special education, and excessive force against children in juvenile detention facilities.
Ellie is a graduate of Yale Law School. During law school, she was a member of the Legal Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she represented clients seeking immigration relief. She also participated in the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, a public-defense clinic in which she defended a client facing state felony charges and revocation of federal supervised release. In addition to her clinical work, Ellie interned during law school for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Prior to law school, Ellie worked as a paralegal for Relman Colfax and as the Project Manager of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund and Legal Network for Gender Equity at the National Women’s Law Center.