Pierce Reed

Pierce Reed is the director of policy and engagement for the Ohio Innocence Project,
where he leads legislative reform campaigns and professional, community, and
campus-based education initiatives. He also supervises and teaches undergraduate
and law students about wrongful conviction and legislative advocacy.

Prior to law school, Pierce worked at Boston Children’s Hospital in child abuse
programs, and in specialized domestic violence and civil rights units for the Norfolk
County (MA) District Attorney’s Office.

Immediately after law school, Pierce served as a graduate fellow funded by the
Echoing Green Foundation, performing policy and litigation work. He was honored
for outstanding legal advocacy by the Multicultural AIDS Coalition in Boston.
Pierce spent several years in private litigation practice before becoming a career
law clerk to former United States Magistrate Judge Joyce London Alexander Ford.
He then served more than a decade as senior judicial attorney to Chief Justice
Maureen O’Connor of the Ohio Supreme Court.

He formerly served as an active Board member and treasurer of the Trustees for the
Ohio Center for Law-Related Education, and served in various leadership capacities,
including president and board member, of the Columbus Lawyer Chapter of the
American Constitution Society, which recognized him for mentoring law students.
He continues to work with the local ACS lawyer chapter.

Pierce is a summa cum laude graduate of Ohio University (A.B., psychology), and
Northeastern University School of Law.