About me
Patrice A. Fulcher is a premier legal trainer and veteran litigator with over three decades of experience heavily rooted in capital defense and systemic legal reform. Her extensive courtroom background includes successfully representing indigent clients facing the death penalty as a Senior Staff Attorney for the Georgia Capital Defender, alongside major felony defense roles and civil rights litigation with the Southern Center for Human Rights. A highly sought-after capital defense instructor, she has trained death penalty advocates nationwide through the Kentucky Death Penalty Institute, Gideon’s Promise, and the National Criminal Defense College. Currently the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense (NAPD) and the former Director of Training for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, Fulcher also made history as the first Black woman to earn tenure as an Associate Professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. She holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law and a B.A. from Howard University.
