Sarah Scott lives in Brooklyn, New York with her daughter and works in Manhattan. She has been a resident of New York City for nineteen years. Prior to that time, Sarah studied English literature at the University of Iowa and University of Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas cum laude.  After graduation, Sarah lived in various areas of the country until she settled in Houston, Texas, married, and studied law at the University of Houston. Eligible by her grades to join the law review, she elected instead to work throughout law school as an intern with an active civil rights and civil liberties bar in Houston. Upon graduation and passing the bar, Sarah practiced in Houston for three years before relocating to New York. Now a member of the New York bar, Sarah has served as a public service lawyer for her entire legal career, and is supported in this dedication by the kindness of friends who helped her find a rent-stabilized apartment in 1984. During her years in New York City, she became a mother, giving birth to her daughter in St. Vincent's Hospital in the heart of Greenwich Village.

For various reasons that she doesn't care to discuss on the Internet, Sarah is now single.

When asked to describe her personality for this profile, Sarah described herself as a "dreamer, a pessimist, a fabulist, and a Type A personality gone to seed." She added the following statement: "At this point (February 2001) I am depressed by the following things:  (1) the image of all lawyers as weasels and money-grubbers; (2) the incredible things the Clintons did  on  the way  out of the  White House; (3) the decline of railroad service; and (4) Robert Philip Hannsen.