Jill . Wichlens
Office of the Federal Public Defender (D-CO, D-WY)
Jill M. Wichlens, Esq., graduated with honors from Colorado College, is an Order of the Coif graduate of Washington University School of Law, and earned an LL.M from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow. Following law school, she served as law clerk to the Hon. Herbert N. Maletz of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. A career public defender, she worked first in Washington, DC, and then in Raleigh, North Carolina, coming back to Colorado in 1990 to join the then-recently created appellate section of the Colorado Federal Public Defender's office. An appellate AFPD until her retirement in June 2015, she filed hundreds of briefs, conducted well over 100 oral arguments (including one in the US Supreme Court), and served as chief of the appellate section from 2010 to 2015. She was a long-time member of the Tenth Circuit Criminal Jury Instructions Committee and served for many years on the Federal Public Defender Supreme Court Resource and Assistance Panel. She has acted as faculty in numerous CLE programs, speaking most often on effective legal writing, substantive criminal law, and all things appellate.
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