Adjunct Faculty Biographies

Marshall J. Hartman

Mr. Hartman received both his B.A. (1954) and his J.D. (1957) from the Unviersity of Chicago. He also holds a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters degree from Spertus College of Judaica. Mr. Hartman has served the indigent and disadvantaged through the public defender movement for more than four decades. He has represented clients in juvenile court, misdemeanor cases, felony cases, death penalty cases, and appellate and post-conviction cases in the Appellate and State Supreme Courts and before the United States Supreme Court. He also has served as national director of Defender Services for the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and from 1991 to 2003, he led the Capital Litigation Division of the Illinois State Appellate Defender Office. He also has evaluated and provided technical assistance to numerous public defender offices to raise their standards of representation for the poor.