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Joshua Jones

Director, Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy

Joshua Jones is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy. Most recently, he helped start the first full-service public defender office in Austin, Texas, serving as the Director of Trials and Training. Prior to that, he served as Senior Litigator with the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., He previously served as a Trial Team Leader and Trial Attorney in the same office.…Read More
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Work 375 E. Chicago Chicago Illinois 60611
Biography

Joshua Jones is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy. Most recently, he helped start the first full-service public defender office in Austin, Texas, serving as the Director of Trials and Training. Prior to that, he served as Senior Litigator with the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., He previously served as a Trial Team Leader and Trial Attorney in the same office. In addition, he worked for several years for a small firm doing complex criminal and civil litigation. Professor Jones has extensive experience teaching and coaching trial advocacy, including coaching the winners of the 2015 National Trial Competition. He received his B.A. in English, Philosophy, and Political Science from the University of Iowa in 2003, and received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2008. As a student trial advocacy competitor, his teams won four national championships.

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Recent Teaching History

2023 Deryl Dantzler Trial Practice Institute (June Session)

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Omodare Jupiter

Federal Public Defender – Mississippi

Omodare Jupiter has represented indigent clients for almost all of his legal career. On April 1, 2019 he began his tenure as the Federal Public Defender for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi. Before his appointment to this position, he served in the same capacity for the District of the United States Virgin Islands from 2013 - 2019.…Read More
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Biography
Omodare Jupiter has represented indigent clients for almost all of his legal career. On April 1, 2019 he began his tenure as the Federal Public Defender for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi. Before his appointment to this position, he served in the same capacity for the District of the United States Virgin Islands from 2013 – 2019. He was an Assistant Federal Defender in Mississippi from 2004 – 2013, and did the same in Seattle, Washington from 2000 – 2004. He was a local public defender in New Orleans (1996 – 2000), and began his career at the Public Defender Service (PDS) in Washington, D.C (1990 – 1994).
He graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1989, and from Loyola University in 1986. Omodare grew up in New Orleans and is the proud father of three sons who all attend college in Mississippi. He also serves as a member of the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College.