Tara Murray

Tara joined Reprieve in October 2009, as a U.S. attorney working on Guantánamo cases and assisting in Reprieve’s efforts to resettle clients who cannot be safely repatriated to their home countries.

Tara is a member of the California and the District of Columbia bars.Tara received her B.A. in human communication studies, with a concentration in legal communications, from Howard University in 2003, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2006.

While in law school, Tara participated in the Criminal Justice Institute where she represented indigent adult and juvenile clients in the Roxbury and Dorchester district court divisions of the Boston Municipal Court.

During the summer after her first year of law school, Tara worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

As a scholarship recipient in the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) Earl Warren Legal Training Program, during the summer after her second year of law school, Tara worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP and in the voter protection practice area at LDF.

After law school, Tara clerked for the Honorable Richard W. Roberts in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Prior to joining Reprieve, Tara was a clinical teaching fellow in Georgetown University Law Center’s Criminal Justice Clinic, where she represented indigent clients facing misdemeanour and felony charges in the District of Columbia Superior Court and supervised third-year law students in their representation of clients.

Contact: tara.murray@reprieve.org.uk