Erin Tomlinson ’10 (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law. She has taught at the Law School since 2016, in both the Lawyering Program and the Defenders Clinic. Currently, she teaches in the Defenders Clinic and serves as Co-Director of the Second Look Project. In her clinical practice, she and her students represent incarcerated people serving massive prison sentences in parole hearings and appeals, clemency petitions, and in various post-conviction litigation seeking vacatur of their convictions or sentences, as well as people facing misdemeanor charges in state court.
Prior to joining the faculty, she was a trial and appellate public defender in New York City. Erin began her career as a trial attorney in the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice, where she represented thousands of people facing misdemeanor and felony charges in the Bronx. She then spent several years representing people on direct and collateral appeals, and in SORA hearings and appeals, as an appellate public defender at Appellate Advocates and the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau.
Erin received her J.D. from CUNY School of Law and is a proud alumna of the Defenders Clinic.
