Cassy Stubbs is a staff attorney with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. Before
joining the ACLU, Cassy worked as a New Mexico State public defender in the felony
unit in Aztec, New Mexico. Previously, she litigated employment discrimination and
wage and hour cases in state and federal court, both as a Skadden Fellow with Bet
Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles, California and as a contract attorney with the
New York Civil Liberties Union in New York, New York. She served as lead counsel in
multiple influential employment cases, including Wet Seal v. Ochoa, In Re Metro
Fulfillment, 294 B.R. 306 (9th Cir. BAP 2003), and Lochren v. Suffolk County.
Cassy is admitted to the bars of New York, New Mexico, and California. She received
her B.S, with honors, from Brown University in 1996 and graduated magna cum laude
from New York University School of Law in 2000. She then served as a judicial clerk
for Judge Harry Pregerson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.