Lana M. Kreidie

Independent Defense Counsel Office, Santa Clara County

Lana M. Kreidie is the Assistant Director of Santa Clara County’s Independent Defense Counsel Office, a program that oversees and administers a conflict panel of defenders appointed to represent system involved youth and adults. Lana spent the first 11 years of her defender career serving as a deputy public defender in Riverside County and the next 5 years as a solo holistic youth and criminal defense practitioner in the Bay Area.  Before joining Santa Clara County’s executive management team, Lana served as the Administrator of the Delinquency Panel with the Bar Association of San Francisco and as an Assistant Managing Attorney with San Mateo County’s Private Defender Program. Over the years, Lana has trained defenders locally, statewide and nationally on a variety of youth defense topics, has participated in a variety of legal reform efforts, and is active with youth and criminal justice organizations such as CJCJ, San Mateo CASA, and CPDA.