Elizabeth C Savage

Elizabeth C. Savage is a trusted advisor and fierce advocate whose practice has a focus on appeals, civil litigation, and family law.  She was a partner in Karmel Savage and founded her own practice in 2024.  While in law school, Elizabeth served as judicial extern to the Honorable Rives Kistler and the Honorable Martha Walters, Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court.  Elizabeth also served as a law clerk at the Oregon Department of Justice, Financial Fraud and Consumer Affairs Division, where she worked on a variety of cases ranging from prosecution of UTPA violations to class actions against major pharmaceutical companies. Elizabeth was an Articles Editor of the Lewis & Clark Law Review and a research assistant to Professor Henry Drummonds.

Before becoming a lawyer, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, where she focused on AIDS education programs and women’s health and empowerment.  Ms. Savage also worked as a high school English teacher in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans, where she taught 9th-12th grade literature, as well as AP language and composition.

Elizabeth currently serves as a member of the Oregon State Bar's House of Delegates, Co-Chair of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association's Amicus Committee, and a judge pro tempore in the Circuit Court of Washington County. She is President of the ACCESS Academy Foundation.