225 Broadway Ste 900
San Diego, CA 92101
TEL: 619·234-8467
FAX: 619·687-2666
1122 State St. Suite E
El Centro, CA 92243
TEL: 760-335-3510
FAX: 760-335-3610
Reuben C. Cahn
Executive Director
Yale Law School, J.D.
Stanford University, A.B.
Reuben Camper Cahn became the Executive Director of Federal Defenders of San
Diego, Inc. in May of 2005. He began his career in indigent defense with the
Office of the Public Defender for the 17th Judicial Circuit (Broward County)
Florida. While there, Mr. Cahn tried cases ranging from misdemeanors to capital
homicides. In 1993, Mr. Cahn became an Assistant Federal Public Defender for
the Southern District of Florida and, in 1995, the Chief Assistant of that
office. During his years in the Southern District of Florida, Mr. Cahn
represented clients charged with a variety of federal gun, drug, immigration,
fraud, and homicide charges. He also acted as learned counsel in a number of
federal capital prosecutions. Mr. Cahn has taught widely on various topics of
federal criminal trial practice and, in particular, federal capital trial
practice. Mr. Cahn received his A.B. from Stanford University in 1981 and his
J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984 where he was an editor of the Yale Law
Journal. Following graduation, Mr. Cahn was a law clerk to the Hon. Lawrence W.
Pierce, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practiced
for several years in corporate litigation.
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