Kristen Leddy joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender in 2010 as a Research and Writing Specialist.  Before this, Ms. Leddy worked as an Assistant Public Defender in the York County Court of Common Pleas in York, Pennsylvania, after completing a clerkship for the Honorable John S. Kennedy.  In 2018, she began working as a Trial Attorney in the Martinsburg Office.  Ms. Leddy is a member of the State Bar of both West Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

Education: 

1997, BA in English from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, cum laude

1999, MA in Victorian Literature from the University of Nottingham, U.K.

2007, JD from West Virginia University College of Law