Patricia Warth, Esq. graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1987 and Cornell Law School in 1996. After graduating from law school, she clerked for a federal judge for a year before joining the New York State Capital Defender Office where she worked as a Deputy Capital Defender until 2005, when the office closed. Ms. Warth then spent a semester as Practitioner-in-Residence at Syracuse Law School’s Office of Clinical Legal Education, and then in 2006, she joined Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York as Managing Attorney of the Buffalo Office. In 2008, Ms. Warth began working at the Center for Community Alternatives as Co-Director of Justice Strategies, CCA’s criminal justice research and policy unit. In addition to her research and policy work, Ms. Warth also supervised CCA’s school-based advocacy programs, Reentry Clinic, and Client Specific Planning Program.

The experiences of the people with whom she works has informed her research and advocacy. She has conducted research about and delivered presentations and CLE’s on a variety of criminal justice topics, including sentencing, sentencing advocacy, drug law reform, and the life-long consequences of a criminal conviction. Ms. Warth is also a co-author of CCA’s reports, “The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered,” and “Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition,” and the 2013 article, “Barred Forever: Seniors, Housing, and Sex Offense Registration,” published in the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy.