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Scott Carpenter is an alumnus of Southern Illinois University and the University of Tennessee College of Law. He has been an assistant public defender since 1990. He is a Criminal Court trial attorney and was instrumental in ...
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Bob Edwards is a UT College of Law graduate who joined the PD/CLO in 1998 after eighteen years in private practice, during which time he focused on personal injury, family law and criminal defense. He also ...
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David Gall is a UT College of Law graduate and assistant public defender since 1990. He was in private practice in the years leading up to joining the PD office and still offers assistance through Legal Aid ...
Julia Gautreau has been an assistant public defender since graduation from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1990. She is presently a trial attorney in Criminal Court, and also works as an editor and technical ...
Jessica Greene graduated from the University of North Carolina College of Law in Chapel Hill in 2004. She joined the PD staff immediately and presently defends Criminal trial cases. A college major in Romance Languages/Spanish, she ...
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John Halstead is an Ohio native and graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He worked for the Kentucky Dept of Public Advocacy for twelve years before joining the PD staff in Knoxville in 1994 ...
Emily Herbert is a Nashville native who earned her B.S. from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003 and M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University in 2005. She graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in ...
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Christina Kleiser graduated from DePaul University College of Law in 1997 and has worked for a variety of public interest law firms in Florida and Ohio. She is a long-time member of the National Lawyers Guild and ...
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Patrick Leonard is a Knoxville native and a 1985 graduate of Memphis State School of Law. He was in private practice for sixteen years before joining the PD staff in 2002, and where he now works in ...
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Gianna Maio , an alumna of Kenyon College, graduated from UT College of Law in 2005, but began working with the PD staff as a clerk in 2003. She presently works in the Criminal trial division. While in ...
Kathryn Merwald is a felony trial attorney in Sessions and Criminal courts. She is an alumna of Saint Louis University and New York University School of Law. In law school she worked in the Criminal and Community ...
Jim Montague graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1977 and from UT College of Law in 1980. He was in private practice before joining the PD staff in 1992. He returned to private practice in 2005 ...
Christy Murray is a 2000 graduate of UT College of Law and was during her term in law school a co-director of the UT Pro Bono Project. She currently carries a caseload as a trial attorney where ...
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Jamie Niland is a Purdue University and UT College of Law graduate who joined the PD staff in 1992, where she now works in the Criminal trial division. She is a member of TADCL, the NLADA, KDLA ...
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Sarah Olesiuk , a native of Asheville, NC, is a felony trial attorney in Sessions and Criminal courts. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Boston College Law School. While in law school, Sarah was a member ...
James Owen graduated from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1997, where he worked in the Student Legal Aid Program and dedicated himself to indigent criminal defense. He joined the PD staff ...
Jim Owen is a UT College of Law graduate and was for many years in private practice before joining the PD staff in 1998. He has served as an MP in the Army Reserves, and was a ...
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Joseph Ramsey graduated from UT College of Law and worked for the PD staff in Johnson City, Tennessee, before joining the Knoxville office in 1995, where he presently defends cases in the Misdemeanor division. He is an ...
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Maya Sheppard graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 2011. She has worked as a criminal defense investigator and a mitigation specialist on death penalty cases. As a law student, she represented clients through ...
David Skidmore graduated from UT College of Law, where he was active in the UT Legal Clinic. He joined the staff of the Public Defender upon his graduation in 1995, when he was awarded a Dean’s ...
Marie Steinbrenner graduated from UT College of Law in 1989, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She joined the PD staff in 1992, and currently defends cases in the Criminal trial division. She is a ...
Mark Stephens was elected Public Defender for the Sixth Judicial District for an eight-year term in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1990, and was re-elected in 1998 and 2006. He practiced law in the private sector for over ten ...
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