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Westbrook graduated from St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, VA, after which she completed a post-graduate year at Lancing. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, Class of 2003, and a law degree from the University of Oregon, Class of 2007.
With a strong and independent spirit since birth, Westbrook found her passion and her purpose in life in law school when she chose to pursue criminal defense. As a clerk and certified law student for a public defenders’ office, she was mentored by excellent and experienced lawyers who taught her to fight the government from the trenches. During law school, Westbrook lead the chapter of the Innocence Project and won the Pro Bono Award all three years of law school.
She took that same passion to her practice after graduation, first as a law clerk to the Honorable Douglas Mitchell of the Circuit Court of Lane County, and then as a proud public defender first in Marion County and most recently with Multnomah Defenders, Inc. In 2020, she went into private practice, and earlier this year started Steamroller Law, PLC, which was committed to the same excellence in practice that was her trademark.
Her death is a loss not only to her family and friends but to the legal community and her clients.
Elizabeth Johnson (Mother)