Angela L. Campbell

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Angela Campbell is an American lawyer, based in Des Moines.^[1]

Campbell is notable for volunteering to serve as a pro bono attorney for four captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1]^[2] She is also notable for traveling to Afghanistan to take statements from the families of her clients.

[edit] Career

Campbell graduated from the Boston College Law School in 2002, where she had served as an editor of the Boston College Law Review.^[3]

Campbell clerked for C. Arlen Beam of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.^[3]

After graduation Campbell became an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Des Moines.^[3]

In September 2007, Campbell opened a private law firm in Des Moines with colleague Gary Dickey Jr.

Campbell accepted an adjunt appointment at the Drake Law School, for the Fall of 2007, where she will teach Federal Criminal Law.^[3]

[edit] Guantanamo clients

Campbell has represented four Guantanamo clients, all of whom have been released.^[2] Campbell has expressed frustration with the delays imposed upon her visiting Guantanamo, to meet with her clients. Campbell accepted the four captives as her client in November 2005. It took almost a year for her to get permission to visit Guantanamo, by which time she was told three of her clients had been released. Her final client Muhibullo was released in 2007.