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Lauren Sudeall Lucas

Lauren Sudeall Lucas is a staff attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights. Ms. Lucas represents indigent capital clients in pre-trial, state post-conviction, and federal habeas proceedings in Georgia and Alabama. She has also been involved in civil litigation regarding constitutional violations within the criminal justice system, such as the right to counsel. Ms. Lucas has published on the subject of indigent defense in a 2005 article entitled “Effectively Ineffective: The Failure of Courts to Address Underfunded Indigent Defense Systems.”

Before joining the Southern Center in 2007, Ms. Lucas served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. During her clerkship with Justice Stevens, she was awarded a Kaufman Fellowship from Harvard Law School in honor of her commitment to public interest work and selected as a 2007 Soros Justice Fellow by the Open Society Institute.

Ms. Lucas graduated with distinction from Yale University in 1999 and received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2005, where she served as Treasurer of the Harvard Law Review.