Katheryn Hickman received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and achieved her Juris Doctorate from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2008. She has been working at the Alternate Public Defender’s Office since October 2022 and prior to that was Chief Deputy Public Defender where she was the Training and Resource Director and she supervised the Category A team, which was a team of attorneys and investigators that handled all the cases that carried a potential life sentence. Prior to Hickman’s employment in Washoe County, she served as a Deputy Public Defender in the State of Colorado’s Public Defender System. She serves with the Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and in April of 2023 she participated in drafting an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of that organization in a case, Cameron v. State, which is currently pending in front of the Nevada Supreme Court.
