About me
Lorinda Youngcourt has represented capital and non-capital clients in trial, direct appeal, state post-conviction, and federal habeas corpus as a public defender and in private practice. She is a National Criminal Defense College faculty member. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Public Defense and a past chair of the Indiana Public Defender Council. Lorinda was the first appointed King County (Seattle, WA) Public Defender from 2015-2018 overseeing the unification of the four non-profit agencies into a single county department. She was the first Lawrence County Indiana Public Defender from 2010-2014, creating a state and county funded agency to replace a contractual public defender system. In late 2018, Lorinda returned to her roots as a trial lawyer for the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho. She is the Senior Litigator responsible for training.
