NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Addy R. Schmitt
Board of Directors, Director, First Term, Class of 2022
October 12, 2021
Addy R. Schmitt is a member of Miller & Chevalier, Chartered, where she
serves as vice chair of the Litigation Department and represents
individuals and corporations in all aspects of criminal investigations and
prosecutions, including internal investigations, grand jury proceedings,
trials, sentencing, and postconviction proceedings. Addy also handles
complex civil litigation. Before joining the firm, Addy Schmitt served as
an assistant U.S. attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s
Office for the District of Columbia, where she represented various
executive agencies and employees at all stages of litigation. She began her
legal career as an associate for Dickstein Shapiro, LLP, and served as a
law clerk to the Hon. Emmet G. Sullivan on the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. Addy is very active in the D.C. legal community: she
has served on numerous prominent committees, including the D.C. Judicial
Nominations Committee by appointment of President Obama, and on the
selection panels for magistrate judges for both the U.S. District Court and
the Superior Court for the District of Columbia. She also serves as an
adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law,
where she has taught criminal trial advocacy, white collar crime, and
taking and defending depositions. Addy has been active on NACDL’s Task
Force on Discovery Reform (chair) and the White Collar Crime Committee. In
addition, she has served as faculty at several NACDL CLE programs, authored
comments in support of NACDL advocacy, and authored amicus curiae briefs.
Recently, at the behest of NACDL’s Lawyers’ Assistance Strike Force, she
participated in the successful representation of Brig. Gen. John Baker, the
head of the Military Commissions Defense Office, in contempt proceedings.
Addy Schmitt earned her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and
her law degree, summa cum laude, from American University Washington
College of Law.
