Meet the Speaker: Jessa Webber ’22 J.D.

Jessa Webber ’22 J.D. recently joined the Western Michigan University-Cooley Innocence Project, where she represents wrongfully convicted individuals in Michigan. Part of her role is to help forge strong relationships with Michigan Conviction Integrity Units — divisions of prosecutor’s offices that work to prevent, identify, and remedy wrongful convictions.

At Notre Dame Law School, she was a student in the Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic from 2021 to 2022. She was involved with the Notre Dame Exoneration Project during all three years of law school and served as the organization’s president as a third-year law student. After graduation, she was granted one of the Law School’s Bank of America Foundation Fellowships and worked as a legal intern in the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office Conviction Integrity and Expungement Unit in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 2018.