diff --git a/frontend/src/components/controls/Icon.tsx b/frontend/src/components/controls/Icon.tsx
index 79b6448f..6aa5f18d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/controls/Icon.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/controls/Icon.tsx
@@ -124,4 +124,4 @@ export const EmailedIcon = ({...props}) => (
   </Icon>
 );
 
-export const SortIcon = ({...props}) => <Icon className="tst-sort" fa="fa fa-sort" {...props} />;
+export const SortIcon = ({...props}: IconProps) => <Icon className="tst-sort" {...props} />;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/List.tsx b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/List.tsx
index 14a7053f..0e996969 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/List.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/List.tsx
@@ -31,9 +31,14 @@ export const List = ({feature}: ListProps) => {
     data = data.slice().sort(feature.list.sorter);
   }
 
+  const handleSort = (sort: any) => {
+    data = data.slice().sort(sort);
+    console.log("sorted", data.map((val) => val.consultantName));
+  }
+
   return (
     <Table size="sm" className={`table-${feature.key}`}>
-      <ListHeader feature={feature} />
+      <ListHeader feature={feature} onSort={handleSort} />
       <tbody>
         {data.slice(page * listSize, page * listSize + listSize).map(model => (
           <ListRow config={config} model={model} key={model._id} />
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeader.tsx b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeader.tsx
index b337b49a..76c8a260 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeader.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeader.tsx
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-import {t} from '../../utils';
 import {IFeature} from '../feature/feature-models';
-import { SortIcon } from '../Icon';
+import { ListHeaderCell } from './ListHeaderCell';
 
 
 type ListHeaderProps<TModel> = {
   feature: IFeature<TModel>;
+  onSort?: (sort?: (a: TModel, b: TModel) => number) => void
 }
 
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line arrow-body-style
-export const ListHeader = ({feature}: ListHeaderProps<any>) => {
+export const ListHeader = ({feature, onSort}: ListHeaderProps<any>) => {
   return (
     <thead>
       <tr>
@@ -31,10 +31,7 @@ export const ListHeader = ({feature}: ListHeaderProps<any>) => {
           }
 
           return (
-            <th key={col.key} style={{width}}>
-              {header ? t(header) : <>&nbsp;</>}
-              {addSort ? <><SortIcon/></> : <>&nbsp;</>}
-            </th>
+            <ListHeaderCell key={col.key} width={width} header={header} addSort={addSort} onSort={(asc) => { if(onSort && col.sort) onSort(col.sort(asc)) }}/>
           );
         })}
       </tr>
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeaderCell.tsx b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeaderCell.tsx
index cdacee78..d2fe5d53 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeaderCell.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/ListHeaderCell.tsx
@@ -1,10 +1,24 @@
-export const ListHeaderCell = () => {
+import { useState } from "react";
+import useHover from "../../hooks/useHover";
+import { t } from "../../utils";
+import { SortIcon } from "../Icon";
+
+type ListHeaderCellProps = {
+  width: string | undefined | number
+  header:string
+  addSort: boolean,
+  onSort?: (asc: boolean) => void
+}
+
+export const ListHeaderCell = ({width, header, addSort, onSort}: ListHeaderCellProps) => {
   const [hovered, eventHandlers] = useHover();
+  const [asc, setAsc] = useState<boolean | undefined>(undefined)
 
   return (
-    <th key={col.key} style={{width}} {...eventHandlers}>
+
+    <th style={{width}} {...eventHandlers}>
       {header ? t(header) : <>&nbsp;</>}
-      {addSort ? <><SortIcon/></> : <>&nbsp;</>}
+      {addSort && hovered ? <><SortIcon fa={asc ? "fa fa-arrow-up" : "fa fa-arrow-down"} onClick={() => {setAsc(!asc); if(onSort) onSort(!asc);}} size={1}/></> : <>&nbsp;</>}
     </th>
   )
 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/table-models.ts b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/table-models.ts
index 01eece65..fa5553f7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/controls/table/table-models.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/controls/table/table-models.ts
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export interface IListCell<TModel> {
   /** Will span until next cell with a footer */
   footer?: string | ((models: TModel[]) => string | React.ReactNode);
 
-  sort?: StringFn<TModel>
+  sort?: (asc: boolean) => (a: TModel, b: TModel) => number
 }
 
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/hooks/useHover.tsx b/frontend/src/components/hooks/useHover.tsx
index bc937f3b..a8add1fc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/hooks/useHover.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/hooks/useHover.tsx
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-const { useState, useMemo } = React;
+import { useState, useMemo } from 'react';
 
-const useHover = () => {
-  const [hovered, setHovered] = useState<boolean>();
+const useHover = () : [boolean, { onMouseOver(): void, onMouseOut(): void}]  => {
+  const [hovered, setHovered] = useState<boolean>(false);
 
   const eventHandlers = useMemo(() => ({
     onMouseOver() { setHovered(true); },
     onMouseOut() { setHovered(false); }
   }), []);
 
-  return {hovered, eventHandlers};
+  return [hovered, eventHandlers];
 }
+
+export default useHover;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/project/ProjectsList.tsx b/frontend/src/components/project/ProjectsList.tsx
index aa292cb0..74ac2116 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/project/ProjectsList.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/project/ProjectsList.tsx
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ export const ProjectsList = () => {
     </>
   );
 
-
   const feature = projectFeature(config);
   return <ListPage feature={feature} topToolbar={TopToolbar} />;
 };
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/project/models/getProjectFeature.tsx b/frontend/src/components/project/models/getProjectFeature.tsx
index eeef267a..d8195cf2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/project/models/getProjectFeature.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/project/models/getProjectFeature.tsx
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ const projectListConfig = (config: ProjectFeatureBuilderConfig): IList<FullProje
     header: 'project.consultant',
     value: p => <ConsultantLinkWithModal consultant={p.consultant} showType />,
     footer: (models: FullProjectModel[]) => <ConsultantCountFooter consultants={models.map(x => x.consultant)} />,
-    sort: p => p.consultantName
+    sort: (asc) => (p, p2) => p.consultantName > p2.consultantName ? (asc ? 1 : -1) : (asc ? -1 : 1)
   }, {
     key: 'startDate',
     header: 'project.startDate',