Sarah P. Jarboe

Sarah P. Jarboe is an experienced environmental attorney practicing at English Lucas Priest & Owsley, LLP. She represents clients on environmental matters, including Clean Water Act Section 404, NPDES permitting, the Resource Conservation and Recoery Act, the Clean Air Act, and Superfund. Her practice includes environmental permitting, enforcement matters, regulatory interpretation, environmental litigation, and negotiations with federal and state agencies. Ms. Jarboe has worked on many “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) matters, often joining consultants in the field to collaborate on the legal aspects of wetlands delineations and jurisdictional determinations. She currently serves as co-counsel in litigation challenging EPA’s WOTUS rule, and she co-authored Chapter 22, Wetlands Considerations in Real Estate Transactions, in the American Bar Association’s (ABA) fifth edition of Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions: Acquisition, Development, and Liability Management. Ms. Jarboe is an active ABA member, participating in the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ (SEER’s) Leadership Development Program (2014–2015) and serving on SEER’s 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, and 2024 Fall Conference Planning Committees. Ms. Jarboe graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was managing editor of the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Journal. Before joining ELPO, she served as a law clerk for Kentucky’s Supreme Court Chief Justice.