Kelly Schneider
Group Supervisor, Death Penalty Division

Kelly Schneider has been with the Office of the Ohio Public Defender since becoming an attorney in 1997. She began as an Assistant State Public Defender and is now a Group Supervisor in the Death Penalty Division. 

Schneider earned her Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from The Ohio State University, graduating Magna Cum Laude. 

Being Rule 20 certified by the Ohio Supreme Court, Schneider has practiced before the Ohio Supreme Court, various Ohio Court of Appeals and Common Pleas courts, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio. 

Schneider has published "Ohio’s Death Penalty Statue: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" with co-author Joseph E. Wilhelm in the Ohio State Law Journal, Death Penalty Symposium issue (Vol. 63, No. 1, 2002). She has also lectured at training seminars, including the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Annual Death Penalty Seminar in Fall of 2003. 

Kelly Schneider
Group Supervisor,
Death Penalty Division
Kelly.Schneider@opd.ohio.gov

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963