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Pamela Prude-Smithers
Chief Counsel, Death Penalty Division
Pamela Prude-Smithers has been
with the Ohio Public Defender since 1992.
She began her work as a student law clerk,
became an Assistant State Public Defender in 1993 and
is now Chief Counsel, Death Penalty Division.
Prude-Smithers earned her Juris
Doctor degree from the Ohio State University College
of Law. She
also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami
University in Political Science and Public
Administration with an emphasis on personnel
management and was a member of Miami University’s
Honor Program.
In 1995, Prude-Smithers left the
office and worked as an Assistant Federal Public
Defender with the office of the Federal Public
Defender. In
addition, Prude-Smithers clerked for the Honorable R.
Guy Cole of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before
returning to the Ohio Public Defender.
Prude-Smithers 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.
She has also lectured at several death penalty
training seminars.
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