Angela L. Campbell

Angela Campbell is an American lawyer, based in Des Moines.cite news
url=http://www.kcci.com/news/14249552/detail.html
title=Attorney For Guantanamo Detainee Notified Of His Release: Campbell Says She Never Knew Why Man Was Held
publisher=KCCI
date=October 2 2007
accessdate=2007-10-05]

Campbell is notable for volunteering to serve as a pro bono attorney for four captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=969371&content_id=%7BBE7C2A97-C6BF-4D77-B9B7-512419742304%7D&notoc=1
title=No Man's Land: What United Methodists Should Know About Guantanamo
publisher=United Methodists
author=Angela Campbell
date=January 12 2007
accessessdate=2007-09-29] She is also notable for traveling to Afghanistan to take statements from the families of her clients.

Career

Campbell graduated from the Boston College Law School in 2002, where she had served as an editor of the Boston College Law Review.(cite web
url=http://www.law.drake.edu/academics/docs/newFacultyApril2007.pdf
title=Fall 2007 Drake Law School: New Faculty
publisher=Drake Law School
date=Fall 2007
accessessdate=2007-10-05]

Campbell clerked for C. Arlen Beam of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

After graduation Campbell became an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Des Moines.

In September 2007, Campbell opened a private law firm in Des Moines with colleague Gary Dickey Jr.

Campbell accepted an adjunt appointment at the Drake Law School, for the Fall of 2007, where she will teach Federal Criminal Law. As of the Fall of 2008, Campbell is the primary instructor for Terrorism and the Law also at Drake University with Tom Fleener.

Guantanamo clients

Campbell has represented four Guantanamo clients, all of whom have been released. Campbell has expressed frustration with the delays imposed upon her visiting Guantanamo, to meet with her clients. Campbell accepted the four captives as her client in November 2005. It took almost a year for her to get permission to visit Guantanamo, by which time she was told three of her clients had been released. Her final client Muhibullo was released in 2007.

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