Lisa Kavanaugh

Innocence Program Director, Committee for Public Counsel Services

Prior to becoming Director of the CPCS Innocence Program. in 2002, Lisa Kavanaugh spent 9 years handling superior court trials and appeals. Lisa has supported dozens of innocence cases by winning and administering federal grant funds to pay for experts and investigators needed to establish innocence, often where the trial courts had already refused requests for funding. She has also formed partnerships with law schools, law firms, the New England Innocence Project and other institutions to improve the quality of post-conviction litigation.