About Andy Simrin
Andy Simrin grew up in Bakersfield, California and
received his bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of
California at Berkeley. In graduate school, he worked as a
research biologist studying fruit-eating birds in the forests
of
Panama. Andy Simrin graduated cum laude from the Northwestern
School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in 1991. In law
school, he earned awards for outstanding academic achievement in
criminal law and as best oral advocate in rounds at the national
Environmental Law Moot Court competition. Andy Simrin worked
as a judicial clerk in the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1991 to
1993. While working at the Court of Appeals, he co-authored
the chapter on Post-Conviction Proceedings in the Oregon State Bar
continuing legal education publication Criminal Law. From 1993
to 2002, he worked for the Oregon Public Defender, which is the
agency that handles criminal appeals for indigent defendants.
As a senior deputy public defender, Andy Simrin served as a team
leader and as supervising attorney for the group of attorneys
handling parole appeals. Since 2002, Andy Simrin has
maintained a solo law practice and continues to focus his practice
on criminal appeals and post-conviction cases. He has
represented clients in over a thousand cases in the Oregon Court of
Appeals and Oregon Supreme Court.