jeff.sherr

Jeff Sherr is the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy. Jeff has been with the DPA since 1994, starting first as a law clerk, then working with the Juvenile Post Dispositional Unit, then in the trial division with the Stanford Field Office, and now in Frankfort with the education staff. Jeff graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1995. Jeff is a faculty member for Gideon’s Promise, the National Criminal Defense College, Clarence Darrow Death Penalty College, and other state litigation institutes. In addition to regularly training public defender litigators and trainers, Jeff has trained public defender leaders for nationally and for many individual defender states and offices. Jeff is the host of The National Association for Public Defense webinars producing over 40 sessions a years since 2013. He is the editor of the DPA’s online journal, The Advocate, The National Association for Public Defense Blog, and The Small Group Coaching Handbook: Tips and Techniques for Criminal Defense Education. Jeff also has an extensive background in theatre having studied with the National Shakespeare Conservatory and the University of Kansas.