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Robin Runge
Robin R. Runge, Esq. is the Director of the Commission on Domestic Violence at the American Bar Association. Ms. Runge has been a domestic violence victim advocate for fourteen years; she also practiced employment law for five years with a focus on women’s rights in employment, specifically the Family and Medical Leave Act, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act and employment protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Ms. Runge is a nationally-recognized expert on the employment rights of victims and speaks and provides trainings regularly on these issues. She has co-authored several articles on employment law and domestic violence, and has worked on state and federal legislation providing job-guaranteed leave from work, unemployment insurance and anti-discrimination in employment for domestic violence and sexual assault victims. She is also a member of the California Bar and District of Columbia Bar, and is currently an Associate Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School teaching Public Interest Lawyering and an Adjunct Professor at The American University Washington College of Law, where she teaches Domestic Violence Law.
Previously, Robin was Deputy Director and Coordinator of the Program on Women’s Employment Rights (POWER) at the D.C. Employment Justice Center and the coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Employment Project at the Employment Law Center, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco. In 1997, Robin was the first George Washington University Law School graduate to receive one of fourteen Equal Justice Fellowships from Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law) to create the Domestic Violence and Employment Project at the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco - one of the first programs in the country devoted exclusively to advocating for the employment rights of domestic violence victims. In 2000, Robin was a public policy attorney for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in its Washington, DC office. She has also served on the board of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence (1998-2000), and co-chair of its Public Policy and Research Committee (1998-2000). She received her law degree from The George Washington University Law School where she received the West Publishing Award for Clinical Achievement in Family Law and the Baer Award for Individual Excellence from The George Washington University. She received her B.A. in History and French, cum laude, from Wellesley College.
