Bio
Frederick Carroll, originally from Colorado, has lived and worked in San Diego for 30 years, with a distinct passion for constitutional rights. For the past 25 years, he has represented indigent criminal defendants in federal and state courts. After growing up in Denver and Eugene, Oregon, he attended Macalester College where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religious studies and began his antiracist activism. Carroll studied law at University of San Diego (USD) School of Law and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, earning his J.D. from USD.
During law school, he worked at Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., starting as an intern and advancing to trial attorney. In 2006, he opened the Law Offices of Frederick M. Carroll. Managing his private practice, Carroll continued his appointed representation of indigent defendants as a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel of Attorneys, defending the constitutional rights of thousands of indigent accused people on immigration and criminal offenses in state and federal trial courts, as well as in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Carroll also served as an adjunct professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, teaching courses in criminal law and criminal procedure, and as a member of the federal Trial Skills Academy, assisting other practicing lawyers in preparing their cases for jury trials.