Tina Olson is an assistant defender and the Juvenile Lifer Unit manager at the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office. Before coming to SADO, she was the chief appellate counsel for the Wyoming Office of the State Public Defender. She served as the chair of the Wyoming Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Committee for many years. Tina has litigated death penalty cases at trial and on appeal and currently represents people sentenced as children to life without parole. She has authored articles for many publications and presented at numerous trainings on trial and appellate practice.