Student Legal Services Staff

Teresa Hepler

Teresa (she/her) is the sole attorney at Student Legal Services. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Languages and Literatures and a minor in German. She then earned her M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago before working as a paralegal for 2 years at a plaintiff’s litigation firm where she focused on medical products mass torts. Teresa earned her law degree in 2017 from the University of Virginia School of Law, which awarded her the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award. Before SLS, Teresa worked as a public defender for 3.5 years in New Hampshire, where she handled misdemeanor and felony cases for both adult and children, before working on criminal legal system reform for youth and adults for 2.5 years as a movement lawyer at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville. She is barred in Virginia and in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.