Madeline Hillsmith
Class of 2020
Madeline Hillsmith is a public defender in the Jefferson County Community Law Office in Birmingham, Alabama. She started her work there as a Texas Law Gideon’s Promise Fellow. At Texas Law, she was a board member of If/When/How, a co-organizer of GRITS (the Getting Radical in the South conference), and a member of the Public Defense Group, and participated in Pro Bono in January, the Mithoff Pro Bono Program’s annual winter break trip to south Texas. She participated in the Capital Punishment Clinic, Criminal Defense Clinic, and Juvenile Justice Clinic, and worked for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas in Dallas and the Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office in Charlotte, North Carolina.