Evanston Defender: Our Staff

Our Staff

The Evanston Community Defender Office employs one full-time attorney, one part-time attorney, one full-time social worker, and one full-time office manager. 

Robert E. Roy:  Office Director/Senior Attorney

• Twenty-six years experience as Office Director/Senior Attorney with this agency.
• Staff attorney for agency 1976-1981.  Licensed to practice since 1975.
• Instructor, Intensive Trial Practice, University of Chicago Law School.
• Trainer, Training the Child Advocate, Northwestern University and National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
• Member, Child and Adolescent Local Area Network #40.
• Member, National Legal Aid and Defender Association.

Thomas Verdun:  Staff Attorney

• Extensive experience in public sector as trial attorney.
• Certified as death penalty trial counsel. 

Mollie Hayward:  Office Manager

• Bachelor of Arts, English, Grinnell College (2004).
• Teaching Certification, Secondary English/Language Arts, Grinnell College (December 2004).
• Teaching Approval, English as a Second Language, National-Louis University (expected 2008).
• Business and general English instructor, James Cook Languages, Prague, Czech Republic (2005-2007).