Susan Seahorn

Susan Seahorn was born in East Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the University of Tennessee College of Law. Admitted in several states, she initially represented clients seeking postconviction relief through paroe or reduction of sentences. She then worked in the federal defender's office for the Northern District of Florida, as an assistant public defender in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and in the research division of the North Carolina legislature and then joined the federal defender's office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. She again served as a North Carolina assistant public defender in Greensboro, then in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, and was finally appointed as chief public defender in 2017. During her 32 years in the public defender system, Ms. Seahorn represented many people charged with sex offenses, murder, armed robbery, and other serious as well as minor felonies, trying numerous cases to verdict with good results by reduced charges and acquittals. Ms. Seahorn then worked with the North Carolina Indigent Defense Services, consulting with defense attorneys on sex crimes, and is also consulting privately. You can contact her at dubsandseahorn.com.