Lisa Peebles L’92

Adjunct Professor lisa_peebles@fd.org Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Lisa Peebles joined the Northern District of New York Federal Public Defender’s Office in August 1999. She was appointed First Assistant Public Defender in 2005 and Interim Federal
Public Defender in November 2010. She was officially appointed as the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York in 2013. She is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and has practiced law in the Syracuse area for the past 26 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Akron University (Summa Cum Laude) and her law degree from Syracuse University (Cum Laude).

Lisa worked as a clerk in the United States Attorney’s Office in Syracuse while attending law school. Upon being admitted to the Bar, she worked as an assistant public defender from
1993-1994 in the Jefferson County Public Defender’s Office. Thereafter, she operated a private practice with emphasis on criminal defense matters. She has tried more than 50 cases to verdict, including both civil and criminal. She has handled numerous appeals in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Lisa has dedicated her career to indigent defense work and in 2014 she was awarded
the Thurgood Marshall Award for outstanding criminal practitioner by the NYSACDL. In 2021,
she co-authored a true-crime book, Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant.