Linda A. Elliott is presently Special Counsel to Senior Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards. She began her service to the Court in 1998, when she was appointed Deputy Circuit Executive. She has since served as Special Counsel to the Court and as the Director of Automation. Ms. Elliott had previously been a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she worked for seven years representing indigent adults and children in both trial and appellate cases. She began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable Douglas W. Hillman, then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. From 1988 to 1990, she was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and, in 1997, returned to the Law Center as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law in the Criminal Justice Clinic. Ms. Elliott is currently an Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Law, where she began teaching in 2001. She recently co-authored a book, Edwards & Elliott, Federal Courts – Standards of Review: Appellate Court Review of District Court Decisions and Agency Actions (Thomson/West 2007). Ms. Elliott is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Kalamazoo College.