Jennifer Martínez

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Jennifer Martínez is a human rights lawyer and a professor of law at Stanford Law School. She represented José Padilla in the Supreme Court in Rumsfeld v. Padilla. Martínez is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. While in law school, she was published twice in Harvard Law Review and finished at the top of her class. After law school, she clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and the Honorable Patricia Wald of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal. She joined Stanford Law School's faculty in 2003 . At 35 years of age, she has already been named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics and an "Elite Woman" by Hispanic Business magazine.