This year's Torrey Armstrong Memorial Lecture will feature a Keynote Address by the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia, Geremy C. Kamens, addressing the timely topic of Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law in the Wake of George Floyd and the Summer of Protest. Mr. Kamens will be followed by a virtual introduction to the incoming federal law clerks for the 2020-21 clerkship term and a farewell to our outgoing FBA-NOVA president.
Keynote Speaker
Geremy C. Kamens serves as the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he supervises attorneys and staff in Norfolk, Richmond, and Alexandria responsible for ensuring the right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. The Fourth Circuit appointed Kamens in 2016. Prior to his appointment, Kamens served as the First Assistant and as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in that Office.
Kamens graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1992, where he double majored in Government and Religious Studies. After college, he spent two years teaching English in the People’s Republic of China and graduated from the University of Virginia law school in 1997. He clerked for Virginia Supreme Court Justice Henry Whiting, and then for U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy in the Northern District of Georgia. Kamens then worked as an associate at Hunton Andrews Kurth before joining the Office of the Federal Public Defender in 2002.
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