David J. Bradford

David J. Bradford, "founding attorney of the MacArthur Justice Center, is a senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block and general counsel to the J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation. He has successfully litigated death penalty cases in trial, post-conviction, and federal habeas corpus proceedings. In 1997, he taught a seminar on habeas corpus and death penalty jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, from which he graduated cum laude in 1976. He clerked for Judge Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before joining Jenner & Block, where he specializes in complex litigation."

• Director, Death Penalty Information Center