Staff Biographies
Richard M. Greenberg
Attorney-in-Charge, Office of the Appellate Defender; President, First Department Assigned Counsel Corporation (1996-present); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender,(1994-1996); Assistant Attorney General, New York State, Environmental Protection Bureau, Crimes Unit, (1989-1994); Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1985-1989); Staff Attorney, Parole Revocation Defense Unit, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1979-1985); Staff Attorney, Criminal Appeals Bureau, The Legal Aid Society of Nassau County (1977-1979). Guest Lecturer, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Environmental Criminal Litigation (1992-1993); Contributing Author, New York State Bar Association, Environmental Crimes (1995).
State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D., cum laude, 1977; State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A., 1974.
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Loreni Cespedes
Administrative Assistant, Office of the Appellate Defender (2006-present); Self-Employed Childcare Facilitator, New York, NY (2006-present); Secretary Assistant, Christian Bible Temple, Bronx, NY (2005-2006); Sales Representative, MBNA Bank, Queens, NY (2005).
City College of New York, B.A. expected in Civil Engineering.
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Risa Gerson
Director of Special Litigation and Deputy Director, Volunteer Appellate Defender Program, Office of the Appellate Defender (2003-present); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1996-present); Administrative Law Judge, New York City Environmental Control Board and Department of Finance (1995-1996); Associate Appellate Counsel, Criminal Appeals Bureau, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1989-1994); Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1988); Staff Attorney, Parole Revocation Defense Unit, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1984-1987). Contributing Author, Dying Twice: Conditions on New York's Death Row, Pace Law Review (Spring 2002).
Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1984, Moot Court Honor Society; Barnard College, B.A., 1979.
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Lily Goetz
Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (September 2007-present); Executive Articles Editor, New York City Law Review, Flushing, NY (2006-2007); Legal Intern, Criminal Defender Clinic, Main Street Legal Services, Flushing, NY (2006-2007); Legal Intern, Criminal Defense Division, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (2006); Legal Intern, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York, NY (2006); Legal Intern, Government Benefits Unit, South Brooklyn Legal Services, Brooklyn, NY (2005); Registrar, Bard High School Early College, New York, NY (2001-2004); Intern, Children's Rights, Inc., New York, NY (1998).
City University of New York School of Law, J.D., 2007, Public Interest Scholar; Wesleyan University, B.A., 2001.
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Sara Gurwitch
Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2001-present); Deputy Attorney-in-Charge, Office of the Appellate Defender (2003-2007); Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1997-2000); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law, (2003-2007); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School (2000-2005); Law Clerk, Hon. Barrington D. Parker, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1996-1997); Director, Death Penalty Project, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights (1995-1996). Author, When Self-policing Doesn’t Work: A Proposal for Policing Prosecutors in Their Obligation to Provide Exculpatory Evidence to the Defense, 50 Santa Clara L. Rev. 303 (2010); Co-author, And Justice for Few: The Collapse of the Capital Clemency System in the United States, 20 Hamline L. Rev. 349 (1996).
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1995; Barnard College, B.A., cum laude, 1987.
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Anastasia Heeger
Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (September 2007- present); Law Clerk, Hon. Theodore H. Katz, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, New York, NY (2006-2007); Volunteer Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2006); Consultant, ABC News Internet Ventures, New York, NY (2005); Author, Securing a Journalist's Testimonial Privilege in the International Criminal Court, 6 San Diego Int'l L.J. 206 (2005); NBC News Decision Desk, New York, NY (2002, 2004); Research Assistant, Professor Michael Madow, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, (2003-2004); Safe Harbor Clinic, Brooklyn Law School Legal Services, Brooklyn, NY (2003); Judicial Intern, Hon. Irma S. Raker, Maryland Court of Appeals, Rockville, MD (2003); Intern, Prisoners' Rights Project, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (2003); Researcher, Media Law Resource Center, New York, NY (2002-2003); Managing Producer/Director of News Coverage, ABC News.com, New York, NY (1997-2002); Reporter/Editor, The Associated Press, New York, NY (1991-1997).
Brooklyn Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 2004, Martha J. Prince Scholar, Prince Merit Scholar; The University of Chicago, M.A., 1994; George Washington University, B.A., 1991.
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Rosemary Herbert
Director of Training and Legal Developments, Office of the Appellate Defender (2003 - present); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1995-present); Vice-President, First Department Assigned Counsel Corporation (1996-present); Staff Attorney, Public Defender Service of Washington, D.C. (1988-1994); Karpatkin Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union (1987-1988); Law Clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court (1986-1987); Law Clerk, Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1985-1986). Editor, Yale Law Journal; Yale Moot Court Semi-Finalist; Benjamin Cardozo Prize. Author, Women's Prisons: An Equal Protection Evaluation, 84 Yale L.J. 1182 (1985); Contributing Editor, Criminal Practice Institute, Trial Manual (1989-1993).
Yale University, J.D., 1985; Harvard College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1980.
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Heather Holloway
Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (September 2007-present); Confidential Law Clerk, New York State Appellate Court, Fourth Department, Rochester, NY (2005-2007); Summer Law Clerk, Hon. Nancy G. Edmunds, United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit, MI (2004); Legal Division Law Clerk, Allstate Insurance Company, Cranford, NJ, (2003-2004); Intern, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Atlanta, GA (2001-2002); Equities Summer Financial Analyst, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY (2000-2001).
Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2005, Outstanding Student of the Year Award; Spelman College, B.A., magna cum laude, 2002.
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Jalina Hudson
Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (September 2008-present); Law Clerk, Hon. Robert P. Patterson, United States District Court, Southern District of New York (2007-2008); Criminal Justice Institute-Harvard Law School (2006-2007); Legal Intern, Southern Center for Human Rights (2005, 2006); Summer Associate, Dickstein Shapiro LLP (2006); Law Clerk, Alston & Bird LLP (2006); General Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review; Executive Editor, BlackLetter Law Journal.
Harvard Law School, J.D., 2007, Irving R. Kaufman Fellow, NAACP LDF Earl Warren Legal Training Scholar; Harvard College, B.A., 2003.
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Mabel Jerez
Administrative Assistant, Office of the Appellate Defender (2005-present); Resident Monitor, Women’s Prison Association (2005); Community Outreach Coordinator, Neighborhood Defender Service, Inc. (2003-2004), Legal Assistant, the Law Offices of Fernando Oliver (2001 - 2002).
Mercy College, B.A., 2004.
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Alexandra Keeling
Senior Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2007-present); Law and Justice Program Coordinator, Venice Community Housing Corporation (2006); Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2003-2005); Legal Intern, Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division (2002); Legal Intern, South Brooklyn Legal Services, Family Law Unit (2001); Legal Intern, Women's Prison Association, Incarcerated Mothers Law Project (2000-2002).
City University of New York School of Law, J.D., 2003; Georgetown University, B.A., cum laude, 1997.
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Margaret E. Knight
Senior Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2002-present); Student Intern, New York Capital Defender Clinic, New York University (2001-2002); Legal Intern, Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia (2001); Legal Intern, D.C. Prisoners' Rights Project (2000); Legal Assistant, Holland & Knight LLP (1999).
New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2002; New College of the University of South Florida, B.A., 1996.
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Eunice C. Lee
Director of Recruitment and Outreach, Office of the Appellate Defender (2003-present); Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, (2003-present); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2001-present); Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1998-2000); Law Clerk, Hon. Eric L. Clay, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1997-1998); Law Clerk, Hon. Susan J. Dlott, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1996-1997). Research Assistant, Hon. F.L. Norcott, Jr., Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court (1995-1996); Summer Legal Intern, Dept. of Justice, Civil Division (1995); Legal Intern, People for the American Way (1995); Summer Intern, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (1994); Summer Associate, Shearman & Sterling (1994).
Yale Law School, J.D., 1996; Ohio State University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1993.
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Matthew L. Mazur
Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (September 2008-present); Staff Attorney, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Trial Division (2004-2008); Law Clerk, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (2003); Criminal Justice Institute-Harvard Law School (2003-2004); Technical Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2003-2004); Law Clerk, Texas Rural Legal Aid (2002); Investigator, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (1998-2000).
Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2004, Heyman Fellow; Yale University, cum laude, B.A., 1998.
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Joseph M. Nursey
Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1999-present); Private Practitioner, criminal defense and civil rights litigation, Atlanta, GA (1995-1999); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1992-1994); Attorney and Director of Interns, The Team Defense Project, Atlanta, GA (1978-1992); Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, FL (1977-1978). Argued Burger v. Kemp, 483 U.S. 776 (1987), in U.S. Supreme Court.
Instructor at numerous state and regional programs on death penalty defense and criminal defense, including: Faculty, National Defender Training Project, 2009 Trial Advocacy Program, University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, OH, May 2009; Faculty, Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania, Trial Advocacy Training, The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA, June 2008; Faculty, National Defender Training Project, 2008 Trial Advocacy Program, University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, OH, May 2008; Faculty, National Defender Training Project, Appellate Defender Training Program, New Orleans, LA, December 2007; Faculty, Georgia Public Defender Council, Appellate Defender Training Program, Atlanta, GA, October 2006; Faculty, National Association for Sentencing Advocacy and Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Persuasive Sentencing Advocacy Training (2004).
University of Florida College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1976; University of Central Florida, B.S., magna cum laude, 1974.
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Lisa A. Packard
Staff Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (September 2008-present); Extern, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York, NY (Fall 2007); Legal Intern, Wisconsin Office of the State Public Defender, Appellate Division, Milwaukee, WI (2007); Summer Law Clerk, Hon. P. Michael Mahoney, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Western Division), Rockford, IL (2006).
Lewis and Clark Law School, J.D., 2008; Marquette University, B.S., magna cum laude, 2004.
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M.E. Tuli Taylor
Administrative Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1999-present); Administrative Attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1999); Administrative Manager, Office of the Senior Staff Attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1992-1999); Administrative Assistant to the Assistant Circuit Executive for Legal Affairs, Judicial Council for the Second Circuit (1992); Associate, Freundlich Schwartz & Weinraub (1989-1992). Intern, New York City Human Rights Commission, AIDS Division (1988); Revson Foundation Public Service Scholar, New York City Commission on the Status of Women (1984-1985).
City University of New York School of Law, J.D., 1989; Hunter College, City University of New York, B.A., summa cum laude, 1985.
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Heidi R. van Es
Director, Social Work/Re-entry Project, Office of the Appellate Defender (2005-present); Assistant Team Leader, Center for Alternative Sentencing & Employment Services (2003-2005); Paralegal Supervisor, Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division (1999-2003); Volunteer, Inmotion, Inc. (1998-2004); Volunteer Advocate, Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention (1998-2005); Research Scholar, Memorial and Compassion Center (1997-1998).
Columbia University School of Social Work, L.M.S.W., 2004; Bryn Mawr College, B.A., cum laude, 1996.
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Daniel A. Warshawsky
Deputy Attorney-in-Charge and Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (2003-present); Director, Volunteer Appellate Defender Program (1994-present); Vice-President & Treasurer, First Department Assigned Counsel Corporation (1996-present); Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Union County Trial Region, Elizabeth, NJ (1990-1992); Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Appellate Section, East Orange, NJ (1987-1990); Staff Attorney/Graduate Fellow, Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (1985-1987); Notes Editor, George Washington Law Review (1984-1985); Law Clerk, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, DC (1984); Author, Service Connection and Drug-Related Offenses: The Military Courts' Ever Expanding Jurisdiction, 54 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 118 (1985).
Georgetown University Law Center, L.L.M. Advocacy, 1987; George Washington University National Law Center, J.D., high honors, Order of the Coif; Legal Research and Writing Honors, 1985; University of Rochester, B.A., 1980.
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