Blair Thompson is a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Veterans Advocacy Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law where she supervises law students who represent veterans in civil, criminal, and veterans benefits matters.  Previously, Thompson served as an Attorney Advisor at the Board of Veterans' Appeals in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and in the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review at the Social Security Administration. Prior to joining the federal government, Thompson served as an Assistant Public Defender with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City where she represented clients before the District and Circuit Courts.  Just after graduating from law school, Thompson began working in Baltimore in August 2011 as a judicial law clerk to a Maryland Circuit Court Judge in the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center.  Thompson has been admitted to the Maryland Bar since December 2011.  While in law school, Thompson served as an intern in the Juvenile Division of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City, the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, and the Federal Community Defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  As a student, Thompson represented individuals seeking unemployment compensation at Philadelphia Legal Assistance and she taught students about their constitutional rights in public schools through the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.  Before law school, Thompson worked with students in the Philippi township of Cape Town, South Africa as a volunteer with the South African Education and Environment Project (SAEP).  Thompson graduated from the Drexel University School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with honors in 2011, and from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007.