Jessica Spencer joined the Innocence Project in 2023, after spending eight years as a trial attorney at the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender. At the OPD, Jessica served as sole counsel on hundreds of felony cases, worked with experts on DNA and fingerprint evidence, and had an undefeated trial record. She also litigated the first motion to compel discovery related to facial recognition technology in the state of New Jersey and led the digital evidence team of the statewide Forensic Working Group for five years. Before joining the OPD, Jessica clerked on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She graduated from Stanford Law School in 2013 and received a B.A. in religious studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010.