Cassie Chambers Armstrong

Cassie Chambers Armstrong is an assistant professor of law at the University of Louisville.

She was most recently an associate at the Louisville firm of Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP. Previously, she clerked for Judge Amul Thapar at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. She also clerked briefly for Judge Phillip Shepherd of the Franklin Circuit Court. In addition, she has represented District 19 in the Kentucky State Senate since March 2023, having previously been elected to Louisville Metro Council’s District 8 seat in June 2020. From 2018-2020, she served as the vice chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.

She is a 2015 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was president of the Legal Aid Bureau. Armstrong received her bachelor’s from Yale College, summa cum laude, in 2010, an M.P.H. from Yale in 2011, and an M.Sc. in Public Management and Governance from the London School of Economics in 2012.