Liliana Coronado brings a wealth of expertise to the Brimley Group as a Vice President. 

 

Previously, she served as the Supervising Deputy Federal Public Defender with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles.  She joined the Federal Public Defender's Office in 2003, after spending a year as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  As part of her responsibilities, Liliana served as one of the representatives in the Convictions and Sentence Alternatives Program (CASA), an innovative post-guilty plea diversion program that is the first of its kind in federal court.

 

Liliana re-joined the Federal Public Defender's Office after serving as counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. for two years.  

 

She graduated from Stanford Law School, and Mills College, where she studied government and ethnic studies.  

 

Ms. Coronado was raised in Watsonville, California and is the daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers.