Right to Counsel Committee Members
Co-Chairs
Rhoda Billings
Professor Emeritus, Wake Forest Law School; Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court, 1985-1986, Chief Justice, 1986; Judge, State District Court, 1968-1972
Robert M. A. Johnson
District Attorney, Anoka County, Minnesota; former President, National District Attorneys Association
Timothy K. Lewis
Co-Chair, Appellate Practice Group, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP; Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1992-1999; Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1991-1992; former Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania; former Assistant District Attorney, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Walter Mondale
(Honorary Co-Chair) Senior Counsel, Dorsey & Whitney LLP; Vice President of the United States, 1977-1981; United States Senator (D-MN), 1964-1977; former Minnesota Attorney General, who organized the amicus brief of 22 states in favor of Gideon in Gideon v. Wainwright
William S. Sessions
(Honorary Co-Chair) Partner, Holland and Knight LLP; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1987-1993; Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, 1974-1987, Chief Judge, 1980-1987; United States Attorney, Western District of Texas, 1971-1974
Members
Shawn Marie Armbrust
Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project; former Northwestern journalism student who helped exonerate death row inmate Anthony Porter
Jay W. Burnett
Former Judge, 351st Criminal District Court, Harris County Texas, appointed 1984; Judge, 183rd Criminal District Court, Harris County, Texas, 1986-1998; Visiting Criminal District Judge, 2nd Judicial Administrative Region of Texas, 1999-2000
Alan Crotzer
Senior Clerk, Department of Juvenile Justice; 2006 DNA exonoree
Tony Fabelo
Director of Research, Justice Center of the Council of State Governments; former Senior Associate, The JFA Institute; former Executive Director, Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council
Norman S. Fletcher
Of Counsel, Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis; Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, 1989-2005, Chief Justice, 2001-2005
Monroe Freedman
Professor of Law and former Dean, Hofstra University School of Law
Susan Herman
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Pace University; former Executive Director, National Center for Victims of Crime
Bruce Jacob
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law; former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida, represented Florida in Gideon v. Wainwright
Abe Krash
Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP; former Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School; Adjunct Professor, the Georgetown University Law Center; represented Clarence Gideon in Gideon v. Wainwright
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Founding and Executive Director, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Bryan Stevenson
Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama; Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Larry D. Thompson
General Counsel, PepsiCo, Inc.; Deputy Attorney General of the United States, 2001-2003; former United States Attorney, Northern District of Georgia
Hubert Williams
President, Police Foundation; former New Jersey Police Director; former Special Advisor to the Los Angeles Police Commission
Reporters
Norman Lefstein
Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis
Robert Spangenberg
President, The Spangenberg Group
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