WENDY WOLF has been a trial attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), the Massachusetts state-wide public defender’s office, since 1985. She is currently the Director of Training for the Youth Advocacy Department (YAD) of CPCS. She began her practice representing adults accused of felonies and was a Supervising Attorney in the Cambridge office of CPCS. In 1996 Wendy joined the Youth Advocacy Project as the Supervising Attorney in juvenile court. In 2002 Wendy started the Juvenile Defense Network, an initiative of YAD and CPCS which provides training and support to attorneys in delinquency and youthful offender cases. She was the co-chair of the Juvenile and Child Welfare Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association (2008-2009), is a board member of the Massachusetts Juvenile Bar Association and the New England Juvenile Defender Center, and on the Juvenile Justice Center Advisory Board of Barry University Law School. She is the 2007 recipient of the Massachusetts Bar Association Access to Justice Defender Award. Ms. Wolf earned her B.S in Social Work from the University of Vermont and her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School