💁🏾‍♀️(Submitted by Cynthia Wilcox Roseberry and Valerie Williams ’82)

⚖️Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1982 
⚖️Graduated from Wilberforce University in 1986 with a degree in Marketing
⚖️Earned her Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law in 1997
Upon graduating from law school, Roseberry practiced federal and state criminal defense in Georgia. 
⚖️Taught advanced criminal procedure and co-taught in the death penalty clinic at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago 
⚖️During the Obama administration, she served as project manager of the historic Clemency Project
from 2014 to 2017. Often referred to as the nation’s largest law firm of nearly 4,000 lawyers, it provided pro bono support to more than 36,000 applicants for presidential clemency.
⚖️A founding board member of the Georgia Innocence Project, she was the first African-
American female president of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. 
⚖️ A national and international speaker, Mrs. Roseberry has presented in nearly every U.S. state in Europe and the former Soviet Union and to a delegation of judges from China.

Source: Cynthia Roseberry’s Bio

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