Missouri State Public Defender System appoints new district defender to Fulton trial office

The Missouri State Public Defender System announced Monday its appointment of Ella Boone Conley as District Defender of the Fulton trial office, according to a Missouri State Public Defender System press release. She replaces Justin Carver who will now serve as the District Defender of the Jefferson City trial office.

Conley is from North St. Louis County. She attended William Woods University in Fulton and later attended St. Louis University where she finished both a bachelor of arts degree in political science and a juris doctorate.

She started her legal career as an assistant public defender in Jackson, Missouri. She later worked as an assistant prosecuting attorney in St. Charles before entering a private practice. She returned to the Public Defender Office in Jackson as an assistant public defender - where she has worked the past two years.

"I look forward to the new challenge that I have been offered as the District Defender of Area 12 in Fulton and sharing my 24 plus years of experience. I feel like I've come full circle having attended my first year of college in Fulton, and now returning as District Defender," Conley said in a press release.