Mark Kleinschmidt , Executive Director of The Fair Trial Initiative

Mark Kleinschmidt, FTI's Executive Director, joined FTI after six years as a staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation where he represented nine members of North Carolina's death row and consulted in numerous other cases. Mark continues to represent several death row inmates in his new capacity as Executive Director. Mark earned his bachelor's degree in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and his J.D. from University of North Carolina School of Law in 2000. He was also recently re-elected to a second term as a member of the Chapel Hill Town Council.