WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Obama nominated Jason D. Tulley to serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
“I
am pleased to nominate Jason D. Tulley to serve on the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia,” said President Obama. “I am confident he
will serve the District of Columbia with integrity and a steadfast
commitment to justice.”
Jason
D. Tulley has served in the Public Defender Service for the District of
Columbia since 2003, where he currently serves as the Training
Director, a position he has held since 2015. Prior to that, he served
as Special Counsel, where he headed the organization’s Forensic Practice
Group, focusing on litigation of science issues, including DNA
evidence, fingerprints, and the psychology of eyewitness identification.
During his thirteen years at the Public Defender Service, Tulley has
tried a number of cases in the Superior Court of the District of
Columbia and also worked on forensic issues leading to the exoneration
of clients. From 2000 to 2003, Tulley was a Deputy Capital Defender for
the Capital Defender Office in New York City, where he represented
indigent defendants in capital cases.
From 1996 to 2000, he worked in
private practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He began his legal career as a
law clerk to the Honorable Theodore G. Bloom of the Court of Special
Appeals of Maryland from 1995 to 1996. He received his J.D., Order of
the Coif, from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1995 and his
B.A., with honors, from the State University of New York at Binghamton
in 1992.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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