Vikram Kapil is the Chief Public Defender for the Counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg, Virginia. He has been the Chief Public Defender for the City of Martinsville, Counties of Henry and Patrick, Virginia. He practices and practiced law and criminal defense in Virginia, and North Carolina as a public defender, court-appointed counsel and in private practice.
Vikram became a member of the Virginia State Bar in 1993. Vikram was born in Youngstown, OH to immigrant parents from India and grew up in Richmond, VA. He attended the University of Virginia, College of Arts and Sciences for his undergraduate degree. After working as a molecular biology researcher at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Cancer Center, Vikram attended Law School in Washington, DC.
He obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law in 1993. Vikram has presented and served on planning committees at VIDC’s Bootcamps, SharkATAC, New Attorney Training for Court-Appointed Counsel; The Supreme Court of Virginia’s Advanced Indigent Defense Seminar; the Virginia State Bar’s Capital Defense Seminar and The Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Attorney’s Annual CLE program. Vikram currently serves as a member of the Board for the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. He served as President of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys in 2017.
He currently also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.
