Her father is an assistant public defender in Edwardsville.

He took a job in 1994, at a pay cut of about 40 percent, as an assistant federal public defender for the District of Maryland.

After law school, Haine worked as an assistant public defender and maintained a small general practice on the side.

After graduating from Washburn he became an assistant public defender.

"Whenever crime goes down, politicians have a tendency to take the credit," said Bill White, the city's chief assistant public defender.

Over 800 federal defenders, assistant defenders, and their staffs attended five Center programs.

Pascal is an assistant public defender in Armstrong County and also has a private practice of law.

For a few years, he was an assistant public defender here and then a flamboyant assistant prosecutor.

From 2005 until 2007, Jackson served as an assistant federal public defender in the District of Columbia.

From 1996 until 2000, she served as an assistant federal public defender.