Elizabeth Hendren

Elizabeth Hendren is Advocacy Counsel at Sexual Violence Law Center, where she leads legislative advocacy in addition to representing survivors in their family law, protection order, and criminal privacy matters. She has over ten years of family law litigation experience representing survivors of gender-based violence. In 2012, Elizabeth created the Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project at Northwest Justice Project, which provided comprehensive civil legal services to currently and formerly incarcerated survivors. Elizabeth managed RISE for over ten years, operating two monthly family law clinics in Washington Corrections Center for Women as well as Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women, in addition to representing formerly incarcerated mothers in their family law and civil protection order issues across the state. Elizabeth serves by appointment on the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission, where she chairs the Incarceration, Gender & Justice Committee. She is a co-author of the Commission's 2021 Report: How Gender and Race Affect Justice Now. In 2012, Elizabeth was the recipient of the Seattle University Leadership for Justice Fellowship, and in 2017 she was a recipient of the Washington Young Lawyers Committee Public Service and Leadership Award, as well as Northwest Justice Project’s Innovation Award.