Alison Siegler

Alison Siegler is the Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Project, a new clinical project that represents indigent defendants charged with federal crimes.  She also teaches Criminal Procedure II and Federal Sentencing.  She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a BA in Humanities in 1995 and received her JD from Yale Law School in 1998, where she served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and as Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.  She also holds an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.  After clerking for United States District Judge Robert W. Gettleman in Chicago, she became a Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s Criminal Justice Clinic, where she represented indigent criminal defendants in D.C. Superior Court and supervised and taught third-year law students in the clinic.  From 2002 to 2008, she served as a staff attorney with the Federal Defender Program in Chicago, representing indigent defendants in federal district court and in the Seventh Circuit.  During that time, she taught sentencing advocacy to federal criminal defense lawyers at local and national seminars hosted by the Federal Judicial Center, the Defender Services Training Branch of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and assorted Federal Defender offices; spoke on a panel at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference; taught Federal Sentencing as a lecturer at the Law School; and taught Advanced Criminal Procedure as a lecturer at DePaul University College of Law.  She serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago chapter of the Federal Bar Association.