Susan E. Sutler (Suji) joined The Charles Hamilton Houston Law School Preparatory Program (CHH) as Executive Director in April 2012. Attorney Sutler was previously ‘of counsel’ to Mercer Law Associates on selective civil litigation cases involving issues including age and race discrimination against public school employees, employment wrongful termination, breach of contract and wrongful death.

For 16 years, she was an Associate and Supervising Clinical Law Professor at the University of the District of Columbia, David A Clarke School of Law in the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic. Teaching and representation strategies focused on integrating special education, juvenile and neglect legal advocacy with intent to prevent and end systemic practices that promote zero tolerance, generate illiteracy and high dropout rates, ignore mental illnesses in youth and fuel the school-to-prison pipeline. Prior to teaching, Attorney Sutler served as the Supervising Attorney for DC Public Schools, Division of Special Education and as an Administrative Due Process Hearing Officer on special education, disciplinary and labor management cases. She received her JD from Howard University School of Law and a BA from Williams College.