Kymberlee C. Stapleton is an Associate Attorney at the Criminal
Justice Legal Foundation.
Ms. Stapleton attended California State University, Chico where she
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science in 1997.
While at Chico, Ms. Stapleton was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta
International Sorority, the Golden Key National Honor Society, and the
National Order of Omega. She received her J.D. in 2000 from Willamette
University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, where she served as the
Note/Comment Editor of - and was published in - the Willamette Law
Review. While at Willamette, she worked as a law clerk for the Oregon
Department of Justice - Trial Division, Special Litigation Unit.
After graduating from Willamette, Ms. Stapleton worked as a
Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Robert Wollheim at the Oregon Court of
Appeals in Salem, Oregon. In 2002, she returned to California and was a
Fellowship Attorney at CJLF. When her year-long fellowship term at CJLF
came to an end, she worked as a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable
Christopher M. Klein at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, E.D. of California.
While there, she primarily researched and wrote bench memoranda and
proposed draft opinions for the Ninth Circuit’s Bankruptcy Appellate
Panel. Ms. Stapleton returned to CJLF as an Associate Attorney in
January 2016.
Ms. Stapleton is a member of the Oregon State Bar (inactive) and
the California State Bar.
PUBLICATIONS:
Note, IOLTA’s Uncertain Future After Phillips v. Washington Legal
Foundation, 35 Willamette Law Review 211 (1999).