Alison Siegler

Alison Siegler is the founder and director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, the nation’s only legal clinic solely devoted to representing indigent defendants charged with federal felonies. She also teaches Federal Criminal Procedure and Federal Sentencing. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in Humanities in 1995 and received her J.D. 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 LL.M. 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. She serves on the Member Board of Advisors of the Chicago Chapter of the American Constitution Society, the Board of Directors of the Chicago chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and the Board of Directors of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.