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As the Deason Center’s Empirical Policy Attorney, Cynthia G. Lee combines subject-matter expertise in criminal justice and public defense with extensive training and experience applying quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Ms. Lee is one of the nation’s leading experts on weighted caseloads in state justice systems and was a co-author of the National Public Defense Workload Study. She previously served as project director on two large-scale case-level court data collection initiatives and was a key contributor to the National Open Court Data Standards (NODS). Her other projects include an analysis of court fine and fee payments, evaluations of civil procedure reforms, and program evaluations of problem-solving courts, including the Red Hook Community Justice Center in New York City. She is the primary author of the 2015 Albany Law Review article The Measure of Good Lawyering: Evaluating Holistic Defense in Practice and has co-authored several articles on weighted caseload and public defense.

Ms. Lee holds a J.D. from the William & Mary Law School, where she was a member of the William & Mary Law Review and the Order of the Coif, an M.P.P. from the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William & Mary, and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Deason Center, she served as a Principal Court Research Associate at the National Center for State Courts.