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Former General Counsel, Public Defender Service for District of Columbia<\/p>

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Julia Leighton is the former general counsel for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS).\u00a0 As general counsel, Ms. Leighton advised and represented the PDS\u2019s Board of Trustees, the PDS management team, and PDS lawyers on a wide variety of legal matters. In addition to her duties as general counsel, Ms. Leighton was a member of PDS\u2019s Forensic Practice Group and was a 2001 founding member. \u00a0In 2014 Ms. Leighton was appointed by the U.S. Attorney General to the National Commission on Forensic Science and was a voting member until the Commission was sunset.\u00a0 Ms. Leighton was also a member of three subcommittees of the Commission, Accreditation and Proficiency Testing, Interim Solutions, and Reporting and Testimony.\u00a0 Currently she is a member of the Legal Task Group within NIST\u2019s forensic science standards development entity the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC).\u00a0 She is a frequent case consultant and lecturer on challenging forensic evidence and the use of experts in litigation. Prior to becoming PDS\u2019s general counsel, Ms. Leighton spent eleven years litigating criminal cases; eight years as a staff attorney at PDS, and three years as a trial attorney in the Environmental Crimes Section of the U.S. Department of Justice.\u00a0 Ms. Leighton received her B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College, Magna Cum Laude<\/i>, and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, Cum Laude<\/i>.<\/p>

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