Federal Public Defender
Fatimah Azeem is an experienced professional in the fields of law, journalism, and research, currently serving as a Mitigation Intern at the Federal Defender Organizations since May 2025. Previously, Azeem held various internships including Investigative Intern at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation, and Case Reviewer at the Innocence Project of Texas. Notably, Azeem worked as an Elections Stringer for The Associated Press, contributing to real-time reporting during elections, and as a Summer Research Fellow at Ballotpedia. Azeem has a strong background in editorial leadership, having been Editor-in-Chief at The Mercury UTD and produced content for UTDTV. Academically, Azeem earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Creative Writing, and Political Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and attended the University of Chicago for further education.
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Federal Public Defender
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With the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A, and its subsequent amendment in 1970, Congress established a comprehensive system for appointing and compensating lawyers to represent financially eligible defendants in federal criminal proceedings. Today, there are 79 authorized federal defender organizations that employ more than 3,300 lawyers, investigators, paralegals, and support personnel and serve 90 of the 94 federal judicial districts.