LETTER TO A YOUNG PUBLIC INTEREST ATTORNEY
LOS ANGELES PUBLIC INTEREST LAW JOURNAL
2 L.A. PUB. INT. L.J. 244
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LETTER TO A YOUNG PUBLIC INTEREST ATTORNEY*
Sean Kennedy

I went to law school in order to become a public defender who did death penalty work. I’m not exactly sure why I was so focused on doing that type of work before I really knew anything about law, but it really was my sole motivation for becoming a lawyer. I think it has to do with experiences I had when I was growing up in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Sean K. Kennedy is the Federal Public Defender of the Central District of California. Prior to being appointed in 2006, he was the Supervising Attorney of the Capital Habeas Unit and specialized in death-penalty trial and habeas corpus litigation. Mr. Kennedy is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School - Los Angeles. He is a recipient of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice’s Skip Glenn Award for excellence in indigent defense. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters, Claire and Caitlin.