Our Mission: to establish a fair and just criminal justice system in Texas,
with an emphasis on improving the quality of representation afforded those facing the death penalty.
Eden Harrington,
Chairperson Director of William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and Adjunct Professor at the UT School of Law
Austin, TX
Stephen B. Bright Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
Atlanta, GA
Richard H. Burr Burr & Welch
Houston, TX
Michael Charlton Assistant Federal Public Defender
Las Vegas, NV
David R. Dow George Butler Research Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Houston, TX
Robert Morrow Hocker, Morrow & Mathews
Sprint, TX
Robert C. Owen Co-Director, Capital Punishment Center, University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX
Jeffrey J. Pokorak Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Programs, Suffolk University School of Law.
Suffolk, VA
Douglas G. Robinson Partner, Skadden, Arp, Slate, Meager & Flohm
Washington, DC
Raoul D. Schonemann Office of the State Public Defender
San Francisco, CA
Elisabeth Semel Co-director of the Death Penalty Clinic at Boalt School of LawFormer Director of the Death Penalty Representation Project of the ABA;
Berkley, CA
Jordan Steiker Professor at the University of Texas Law School
Austin, TX
Mandy Welch Burr & Welch
Houston, Texas
Texas Defender Service is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.