Laura Zimm is a full-time Assistant Public Defender with the Sixth Judicial District Public Defender’s Office in Duluth since 1995. She has defended a wide variety of cases in her 25+ years with the Public Defender’s Office, with a current emphasis on serious felony cases. She is legal faculty with the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention out of San Diego and trains nationally on strangulation. Laura was an adjunct professor at Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College for over 6 years, teaching Juvenile Delinquency in the Law Enforcement Program. She continues to teach in the summer skills program there. She has been a multidisciplinary team member at First Witness Child Abuse Resource Center since 2004. As a part of that team, she teaches at the forensic interview trainings, presents at child abuse conferences, partakes in team meetings, and monitors interviews. She presents trainings on Courtroom Testimony to a variety of audiences, including on-going trainings for the St. Louis County Sherriff’s Office. In addition, she has trained law enforcement on domestic violence cases. One of her second jobs also includes work as a Beer Ambassador with Castle Danger Brewing. She is always happy to explain how she manages to sleep at night, considering her defense of “those people”.