Andrea D. Lyon is currently an associate clinical professor of law and the director of the DePaul Center for Justice in Capital Cases. In 1976, she joined the Cook County Illinois Public Defender's Office. Her last position there was as chief of the Homicide Task Force, a 22-lawyer unit representing persons accused of homicides. She has tried over 130 homicide cases, both while at the Public Defender's office and since. She has defended over 30 potential capital cases at the trial level and has taken 18 through penalty phase; she has won all 18. In 1990, she founded the Illinois Capital Resource Center and served as its director until joining the University of Michigan Law School faculty as an assistant clinical professor in 1995.

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