LISA RASMUSSEN

Founding Board Member

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Lisa is an attorney who has been in private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada for over 20 years.  She specializes in criminal defense, civil litigation, and appeals. She is a board member of Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice (NACJ) and is also a member of the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).  Lisa has also been a member of the ACLU of Nevada board since 2003 and she presently serves as its treasurer.  She also serves on the National ACLU Board as an affiliate representative member.

 

Lisa has extensive lobbying experience with NACJ and her lobbying experience includes work with the Innocence Project and bills that were enacted during the 2019 session to address actual innocence and compensation for those wrongfully convicted.  Her lobbying experience has included many criminal justice reform measures during the past 20 years.

 

Lisa obtained a full pardon for Fred Steese who was wrongfully convicted in 1996 for a murder he could not have committed because he was in Nampa Idaho at the time of the offense.   Prior to law school Lisa owned a sentencing consulting business in San Diego specializing in the development and presentation of mitigating evidence for sentencing purposes and in death penalty cases. While a graduate student in the Sociology Department at San Diego State University, she worked on a two-year grant project through the National Institute of Health designed to facilitate the reintegration and rehabilitation of dually diagnosed, homeless veterans within San Diego County.  

 

Lisa lives in Las Vegas with her husband three dogs.

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