She is Professor in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University and a faculty fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).
[1] Sandefur also won a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2018 for "promoting a new, evidence-based approach to increasing access to civil justice for low-income communities".
[3] The Chicago Tribune described her research on alternative approaches to settling civil justice disputes over housing, employment, and family issues as the kind of scholarship that can sometimes "pass largely unnoticed by the broader culture".
[4] Sandefur is a faculty fellow of the American Bar Foundation, where she leads a research program on access to justice and contributes to research following the career trajectories of people after they earn their Juris Doctor degrees.
[8] In 2001 she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on "the social organization of legal careers".