Andrea D. Lyon
Associate Dean for Clinical Programs; Director, Center for Justice in Capital Cases; Clinical Associate Professor of Law; Supervisor, Death Penalty Legal Clinic

Mort Smith
Associate Director, Center for Criminal Justice
Mort Smith is the co-founder and Associate Director of the Criminal Defense Investigator Certification Program. Mr. Smith received his M.A. degree from Western Illinois University. Mr. Smith is a practicing Licensed Private Investigator who specializes in criminal defense and civil rights violating cases. He is a consultant to attorneys and criminal defense investigators on matters concerning criminal cases. He is the primary instructor for the Criminal Defense Investigator Certification Program at DePaul University. He has lectured to many different audiences on various subjects on criminal defense investigations. Mr. Smith is the former Chief Investigator of the Cook County Public Defenders Murder Task Force and the Former Chief Investigator for the Illinois Capital Resource Center (now the Capital Litigation Division) of the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. Additionally, Mr. Smith is the Chair of the Investigator Division of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (IACDL) and writes a column in the IACDL newsletter discussing issues surrounding the criminal defense investigations.

Mary Hornschemeier Bandstra
Coordinator
Ms. Bandstra is the coordinator for the CJCC. She is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago where she studied Classical Civilization and minored in philosophy. Before working at DePaul, she was the education director at St. Leonard's Ministries, a housing, educational and job training program for formerly incarcerated men and women.