NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
News Release
Alexandria, Virginia, Lawyer Nina Ginsberg Installed as President Elect of Nation's Criminal Defense Bar
July 31, 2018
Washington, DC (July 31, 2018) -- Nina Ginsberg of Alexandria, VA, was sworn in as President Elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at the Association's annual meeting in Miami Beach, FL, on July 29.
Ms. Ginsberg is a founding partner at DiMuro Ginsberg, P.C., in Alexandria, VA and has practiced criminal law for more than 35 years. She has represented individuals and corporations in a wide range of matters, with a focus on national security law, white collar investigations and prosecution, financial and securities fraud, computer crime, copyright fraud, and professional ethics. Her work has included representing one of the September 11th Guantanamo detainees in the military commissions and in the DC Court of Appeals as part of the John Adams Project. And she represented NACDL at the 2008 United Nations sessions in Vienna, Austria.
In her decades of NACDL membership, Ms. Ginsberg has chaired and co-chaired the Sex Offender Policy, Amicus, Asset Forfeiture, and International Law committees. She previously served on the Board of Directors in 2012, and she also served two prior terms on the Board between 1998 and 2005. She has served on several Nominating committees and Executive Director Screening task forces, as well as receiving three presidential commendations. She has also served on the Women in Criminal Defense, National Security, International Law, and Death Penalty advisory committees. And she is also a member of the Virginia Discovery Committee. This past year, Ms. Ginsberg served as NACDL's First Vice President. She is serving a second term as a Trustee of the NACDL Foundation for Criminal Justice and is currently its Treasurer.
She is a graduate of the University of Rochester, where she received her B.A. in 1972, and the Antioch School of Law, where she received her J.D. in 1978.
Ivan Dominguez, NACDL Senior Director of Public Affairs and Communications, (202) 465-7662 or idominguez@nacdl.org
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is the preeminent organization advancing the mission of the criminal defense bar to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or wrongdoing. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's many thousands of direct members in 28 countries – and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys – include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness and promoting a rational and humane criminal justice system.