News Release

Cleveland, Oh., Attorney Kristina W. Supler Elected to Board of Directors of Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar

Washington, DC (August 6, 2013) - Cleveland, Ohio, attorney Kristina W. Supler was elected to be a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at the Association’s 56th annual meeting in San Francisco, California, on July 27.

Supler is currently a trial attorney at Friedman & Frey, L.L.C. in Cleveland, Ohio, where her practice is exclusively criminal defense. She has worked on a wide variety of criminal cases throughout her career, in both state and federal venues, but often focuses on the defense of computer and technology-based offenses. Supler also works extensively on white collar cases.

Supler has been an active member of NACDL since 2006, serving on both the Champion Advisory Board and Indigent Defense Committee. In addition to the years of service she has devoted to NACDL, Supler has also long been committed to the legal community in her home state of Ohio. She is a member of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Board of Trustees, where she mentors first year law students. She also volunteers with the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s 3Rs (Rights, Responsibilities and Realities) Program, which connects lawyers with underprivileged high school students as they prepare to complete the Ohio Graduation Test.

Supler completed her bachelor’s degree at Boston University and attended Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Contacts

Ivan Dominguez, NACDL Senior Director of Public Affairs and Communications, (202) 465-7662 or idominguez@nacdl.org

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is the preeminent organization advancing the mission of the criminal defense bar to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or wrongdoing. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's many thousands of direct members in 28 countries – and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys – include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness and promoting a rational and humane criminal justice system.