Kaitlin Beck

Assistant Public Defender

Kaitlin earned her Bachelor’s degrees from Middle Tennessee State University Honors College in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Between college and law school, she worked at the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office as a “Victim Witness Coordinator” (after a late application to intern with the Public Defender was rejected). Kaitlin attended law school at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of The Law Review editorial board, earned First Place in The Law School’s 2016-2017 intramural moot court competition, and accepted summer internships with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and the American Civil Liberties Union. Post-graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Judge Sheryl H. Lipman of the Western District of Tennessee. Kaitlin has worked at the Law Office of the Shelby County Public Defender since 2018, primarily in General Sessions Courts 9, 10, 11 and 13. In 2019, she was included in The Memphis Flyer’s “20 under 30,” and in 2021 she was honored to be named the Tennessee Bar Association’s Ashley T. Wiltshire Public Service Attorney of the Year.