Nona E. Walker is a supervising attorney in the Appeals Unit of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS). After graduating from Suffolk University Law School in 1981, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Reuben Goodman of the Massachusetts Appeals Court for one year, and then joined the Appeals Unit of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, now CPCS.

Ms. Walker represented Neil Miller on appeal in the early '90s. After his conviction was affirmed, she helped him obtain DNA testing through the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School in New York. He was exonerated by the tests and freed from prison in May of 2000 after serving ten years of the ten to twenty-five year term imposed on him for his conviction of rape.

Ms. Walker is a member of the board of Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty and served as co-chair of that body from 1996 until January 2002.

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