Natasha Perdew Silas: Next Executive Director For Atlanta Federal Defender Program

The Federal Defender Program, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia has selected Natasha Perdew Silas to serve as its next Executive Director.

She has spent more than a quarter-century defending indigent persons accused of federal criminal offenses as a Staff Attorney and then Senior Litigation Attorney with the Atlanta Federal Defender Program.

She joined the Faculty of the National Criminal Defense College in 2016, serving as one of its Co-Deans since August 1, 2017. She has also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Emory University School of Law and Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. She is a frequent presenter at a variety of local and national CLE programs. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.