Erin Varley

Erin Varley

Adjunct Professor of Law

Location: Carlisle

Senior Deputy District Attorney
Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office
Harrisburg, PA

Email  euv4@psu.edu

About Varley

Erin Varley is the senior deputy district attorney in the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office, with a primary focus on human trafficking and sexual violence/child abuse prosecutions. She was a co-recipient of Dickinson Law’s Women’s Law Caucus Recent Alumna Award in 2021.

Varley received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Master of Science in Business Administration from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and a Juris Doctor from Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

She will teach “Trauma Informed Lawyering” in the fall semester.


The American Bar Association has granted conditional approval for Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law to reunify and operate as Penn State University’s single law school under the name Penn State Dickinson Law with locations in Carlisle and University Park. Danielle M. Conway is the dean of the unified Penn State Dickinson Law, which will enroll a unified class in fall 2025.