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Ex-editor-in-chief of law journal is acting Chief Public Defender
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Posted on Nov 29 2005
A former editor-in-chief of Texas Journal of Women and the Law has been designated as acting Chief Public Defender.
Then Chief Public Defender Masood Karimipour tapped Assistant Public Defender Elisa A. Long as his replacement in an acting capacity effective last Nov. 18.
Karimipour said for the next two years, he will be in Afghanistan on a U.S.-sponsored mission “to improve the administration of justice there.”
Long managed editorial and administrative staff as editor-in-chief in 1992 to 1993 of the Austin, Texas-based Texas Journal of Women and the Law that published feminist legal journal.
In an interview, Long expressed appreciation to Karimipour for believing in her that she can do the job.
Long said she had been doing similar job at Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C. where she served as supervising attorney in Sept. 2003 to July 2005.
As acting Chief Public Defender Long said she wants to make sure that indigent clients are served well in courts and look at the needs of the attorneys and other staff members.
When asked if she likes Saipan, the lawyer who just arrived on island in the latter part of July 2005, responded, “I love it. It’s great.”
Long completed law at the University of Texas School of Law with honors in 1994. She served as assistant public defender trial division at Baltimore, Maryland in July 1995 to June 1997.
In 1997 to 1999, Long joined Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Pennsylvania as a litigation associate.
She also served as adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law in spring of 2002 and 2003 where she taught written and oral advocacy skills to law students.
In spring of 2005, Long served again as an adjunct professor conducting seminars on the practice of law at the American University, Washington College of Law.
Long’s Bar memberships include the Maryland, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, and U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
