Leonard Noisette

Biographical Details
"Leonard Noisette is the director of the Criminal Justice Fund for U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations...

"He has worked with the New York City Legal Aid Society, and was a founding member and longtime executive director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem...

"During the years of the Clinton Administration, Noisette participated in the Justice Department's work to improve indigent defense and defense-prosecution relations. From 1999-2001, he was a member of the Executive Session on Public Defense, sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Justice Assistance and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

"Noisette has served on the boards of the New York State Defenders Association and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. He is an adjunct professor at Fordham and Columbia University Law Schools, and is an active member of numerous bar associations."