PERSON: Sarah Isgur Flores

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Sarah Maureen Isgur (born November 9, 1982) is an American attorney, political commentator, and former Trump Administration spokesperson at the United States Department of Justice.

In 2016, Isgur was a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. Isgur was the deputy campaign manager for the Carly Fiorina 2016 presidential campaign. Prior to that, she worked for the Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign. She hosts a podcast, Advisory Opinions, for The Dispatch, a conservative media outlet.

While serving in the Justice Department, Isgur represented the Trump Administration by defending the family separation policy, as well as Executive Order 13769 (known as the “Trump travel ban”).

Isgur was born in 1982 and raised in Texas. Her father is U.S. bankruptcy judge Marvin Isgur. Her family took birding vacations to Africa and South America. Isgur is Jewish.

In 2004, Isgur received a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in history and political science. She began as a math major, but after being placed in a senior level political science seminar due to a scheduling error, changed her major to political science.

Isgur received a Juris Doctor in 2008 from Harvard Law School. During her time at Harvard Law School, Isgur was the president of the Harvard Federalist Society and a staffer on the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Isgur also attended the London School of Economics and participated in their certificate program.

While in law school, she worked as a clerk for several law firms, including the Office of Legal Policy, Cooper and Kirk, and Wiley Rein. She worked on Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential political action committee and Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign.

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