Brazos County Public Defender's Office

04/02/2026

https://wtaw.com/brazos-county-commissioners-receive-an-activity-update-at-the-public-defenders-office/

Now in its fourth year of operation, the head of the Brazos County public defender’s office shared an activity report at the last county commission meeting, representing two new groups of clients. Nathan Wood brought [Read More...]

10/09/2025

The Brazos County Public Defender's Office is seeking a passionate and experienced juvenile defender for a new Juvenile Division. This is a rare opportunity to build a new culture of advocacy for kids in the heart of Texas.

General Summary: This position leads and manages the juvenile division of the public defender's office, providing oversight and strategic direction to ensure the delivery of high-quality legal services to indigent juvenile defendants. The Chief Juvenile Public Defender is responsible for handling a....

07/10/2025

Rural Texas counties are getting new public defender offices!

The Texas Indigent Defense Commission approved over $7 million for new or expanded programs to strengthen public defense across the state. The new funding will:

✅ Establish the Wharton-Matagorda Regional Public Defense Office
✅ Create a tri-county public defender office serving Maverick, Dimmit, and Zavala Counties
✅ Expand the Far West Texas Regional Public Defender Office into Val Verde and Terrell Counties
✅ Add juvenile, appellate, and mental health public defender services in Brazos County

These investments will help address the attorney shortage crisis and ensure that everyone in Texas, no matter their income, has access to quality legal representation.

03/04/2025

Our office is hiring!

General Summary: This position provides a full range of legal services to indigent defendants in the assigned felony and misdemeanor cases. Primary responsibility to handle the felony case load. Additional responsibilities to assist in misdemeanor caseload, trial preparation and trials, as directed....

10/19/2024

We're hiring Public Defenders! Click the link the below to apply and upload your resume.

General Summary: This position provides a full range of legal services to indigent defendants in the assigned felony and misdemeanor cases. Primary responsibility to handle the misdemeanor case load and potentially felony-level controlled substance cases. Additional responsibilities to assist in fel...

09/23/2024

We're hiring!

General Summary: The Receptionist position provides support to the Public Defender Office, the public and other county departments to ensure effective, efficient and productive workflow. This position requires a significant amount of communication with the public. The Receptionist assists attorneys....

07/10/2024

Happening THIS Friday- July 12th!

05/30/2024

The Public Defenders Office is hiring!

General Summary: This position provides a full range of legal services to indigent defendants in the assigned felony and misdemeanor cases. Primary responsibility to handle the misdemeanor case load and potentially felony-level controlled substance cases. Additional responsibilities to assist in fel...

03/31/2024

Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God. (Micah 6:8).

Happy Easter everybody!!

The Brazos County Public Defender’s Office has been open for a year, trying cases in the courtroom and connecting clients to community resources.

03/18/2024

Happy (Belated) Gideon Day, everybody. Justice Hugo Black wrote for the unanimous United States Supreme Court on March 18, 1963, “… in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him.”

In pursuit of this piece of fundamental fairness, the Brazos Public Defender has been accepting cases for one year now. In that time, we have represented clients on more than 470 cases. Many of our clients struggle with poverty, addiction, and/or mental illness. A lot of our clients do not even speak the language being used to arrest and prosecute them. This is where we step in - holistically representing our clients in court and connecting them to community resources to address the challenges that they face outside the courtroom as well. Our goal is to force the system to care.

470 cases sounds like a lot to me right now - but, I know that this is just a beginning to the community- and culture-changing presence that our office will provide to this part of Texas in the years to come.

And a special thanks to our supporters throughout the community - those service providers who share our commitment to caring for those who the rest of society would prefer to forget. Check out this 1964 episode of CBS Reports that covered the landmark case Gideon v. Wainright, which guaranteed to right to counsel for criminal defendants.

CBS Reports looked at the landmark Supreme Court case [Gideon v. Wainwright], which guaranteed to right to counsel for criminal defendants. The documentary included interviews with Clarence Gideon, his attorney and future Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas, sitting Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldber...

01/25/2024

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/prosecutor-crisis-criminal-justice-reform.html

Soaring prosecutor vacancies are terrible news for criminal defendants.