Jill Travis, the next executive director of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is an experienced law-writer, criminal defense lawyer and educator. Travis will succeed Jennifer Koehler Mackall as GACDL’s leader on Dec. 1.
Travis has served as deputy legislative counsel for the Georgia General Assembly for the past 18 years, where she drafted nearly 10,000 bills and amendments, including all the laws pertaining to criminal justice reform, overhauls of the Juvenile and Evidence Codes and creation of the Georgia Public Defender Council. Before that, she spent 14 years practicing criminal defense law, first in private practice, then as chief public defender for Douglas County from 1994 to 2000.
