Jeanne Bishop

Jeanne Bishop is an attorney, author and advocate for mercy and redemption in the criminal legal system.

A graduate of Northwestern University’s journalism and law schools, Jeanne was also a Visiting Student at Yale Law School. She is a felony attorney in the Office of the Cook County Public Defender  in Chicago and an adjunct law professor in Trial Advocacy at Northwestern, where she received the school’s alumni award for public service.

Jeanne has written widely in newspapers and magazines, online sites such as HuffingtonPost and CNN.com, law journals and academic books. She is the author of a memoir, Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer (Westminster John Knox Press 2015) and Grace From the Rubble: Two Fathers’ Road to Reconciliation After the Oklahoma City Bombing (Zondervan 2020), named by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Five Religion Books for 2020 and recipient of the Christopher Award. Jeanne has appeared in several documentary films, two TEDX talks and the CBS 48 Hours segment “Road to Redemption.”

Jeanne lives on Chicago’s North Shore and is the mother of two sons, Brendan, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy currently serving on the USS Hampton and Stephen, a student at Temple University and rower on the men’s crew team.