Rebecca Kiley has served as the Public Defender Division’s Chief Appellate Attorney since February 2018. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Eric Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and then worked for three years as a law fellow and staff attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama. She joined CPCS as a trial attorney in the Roxbury/Dorchester Municipal Court office in 2008, and moved to the Appeals Unit in 2012.