NATIONAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE COLLEGE ALUMNI
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Emily Strand
Deputy Public Defender
Biography
Emily Strand is a Deputy Public Defender at the Clark County Public Defender’s Office in Las Vegas Nevada, where she primarily handles domestic violence cases. Emily received her law degree from the William S. Boyd School of Law and received dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology, with emphases in criminology, from the University of Portland.
Emily is passionate about pro-bono work and regularly works with the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and other non-profit organizations. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and traveling. Causes that deal with children, healthcare, LGBTQ issues, and animals are especially important to her.
Rachel Strecker
Private Defender
Melissa Striba
Margaret Strickland
Sydney strickland
Ryan Stump
Jess Sturgill
Phillip Su
Hector Sueiro
Assistant Federal Public Defender
Laura Suelau
Andrenette Sullivan
Christopher Sullivan
Eileen Sullivan
Lue Sullivan
Anand Sundaram
Kannan Sundaram
Jonathan Sussman
David Sutton
Kieley Sutton
Christopher Swaby
Biography
Christopher Swaby is an attorney in private practice accepting appointments to represent indigent defendants charged with class A offenses around the state. He began his career in 1990 as a staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Christopher moved to eastern Washington in 2000, where he practiced on the felony defense panel in Benton County. He moved to the Seattle area and joined the Defender Association (TDA) as a staff attorney in the felony division, later promoted to felony division supervisor. Christopher left TDA in 2012 and joined a small boutique criminal defense firm. In 2015, he left the firm to start a solo criminal defense practice. He has represented clients in matters in Benton, Cowlitz, Franklin, Gray’s Harbor, Island, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Snohomish, Spokane, Thurston and Yakima counties. Christopher was born and raised in Washington, DC. He has a BA in psychology from the University of Virginia and his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.