Sarah J Larsen graduated from Lewis and Clark College’s Northwestern School of Law (Portland, Oregon) in 1998. Her primary course work there focused on business and tax law. She became a member of the Utah State Bar in 1998, but decided to return to Oregon to work with a law firm specializing in employment law, and became a member of the Oregon Bar in 2000. After the stint in Oregon, Sarah returned to Utah to work for a year with collections law firm. Thereafter, she channeled her knowledge of employment and creditor/debtor law to become corporate counsel for several small-to-medium sized companies.

Sarah served as an officer of the Corporate Counsel Section of the Utah State Bar from 2005 until 2007, and the Chair of that section from 2007 to 2008. She has also been involved with the Young Lawyers Section and the Solo, Small Firm and Rural Practice Section, the Bankruptcy Section of the Utah Bar, and the Utah Bankruptcy Lawyers Forum.

Sarah completed her undergraduate work at the University of Utah, where she majored in Political Science and minored in Economics. She is an avid Ute fan, having been one of the first members and officers of the Student Alumni Association, which created what is now known as the MUSS.