Bio
Jennifer Wedekind is the Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia. Jennifer has litigated a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues and has particular expertise in the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Jennifer has argued in federal courts across the country, including the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, and has litigated matters in numerous other federal appellate and district courts. Previously, Jennifer was a senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project, a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and a Dunn Fellow and Special Projects Counsel at the ACLU of the District of Columbia. Jennifer started her legal career as a litigation fellow at the National Prison Project. Jennifer is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Georgetown Law.