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Jill Beeler
Chief Counsel, Juvenile Division
Jill Beeler is Chief Counsel for the Juvenile Division in the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. She earned her undergraduate degree in criminology/criminal justice from The Ohio State University and her law degree from Capital University. Jill has worked for the Office of the Ohio Public Defender since 1998, and became juvenile section supervisor in 2003. In January 2008, the juvenile section was promoted to a division, and Jill was named Chief Counsel. Jill has served on the Competency Working Group of the Juvenile Issues Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Ohio Advisory Committee on Mentally Ill in the Courts, which drafted a proposed competency statute for juvenile delinquency proceedings; and is a member of the Supreme Court of Ohio Advisory Committee on Children, Families, and the Courts, in which she participates on the Rules and Regulations subcommittee as well as the Quality of Representation Subcommittee. Jill has testified against various pieces of legislation, including Senate Bill 260, sex offender legislation that was amended to exclude certain juvenile defendants; and Senate Bill 10, which implemented the Adam Walsh Act in Ohio but was amended to limit its application to juvenile offenders. |
