Carla Jean Martin
is an American lawyer.
Early life and career
Carla is the daughter of Charles W. Martin and Jean D. Henderson.
She was born in
Washington, D.C. and her family lived there until she was 9.
Her father was an attorney who worked for the
federal government
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in the 1950s until 1963 when he went into
private practice Private practice may refer to:
*Private sector practice
**Practice of law
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in
Tennessee, resulting in the family moving there.
Her mother is a former government
secretary and
assistant.
Martin graduated cum laude from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1976.
[Sniffen, Michael J. (2006) "Prosecutor Used Transcript to Aid Witness". Associated Press. March 13, 2006. Found at - Accessed January 8, 2008] She became a flight attendant before attending law school.
Attorney career
Martin earned her
J.D. degree from the
Washington College of Law at
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
in
Washington D.C. in 1989
[Labaton, Stephen and Matthew L. Wald. (2006) "Lawyer Thrust Into Spotlight After Misstep in Terror Case". New York Times, March 14, 2006. Found a]
- Accessed January 8, 2008
Martin was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania in 1990.
[ She began working at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during law school.][
Martin was responsible, as FAA counsel, for the ]Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by ''Clipper Maid of the Seas'', a Boeing ...
/Lockerbie bombing case for several years, both the civil litigation trial in 1992 against Pan American World Airways in New York, as well as the criminal prosecution of the Lockerbie bomber defendants Megrahi and Fhimah in the Scottish court at Zeist, Netherlands in 2000. Ms. Martin's work in the civil litigation case is chronicled in the book by aviation security expert Rodney Wallis, '' Lockerbie: The Story and the Lessons''. Her job then was to protect information about airline security, sensitive security information (SSI), from entering the trial’s public record.
Martin was also involved in the prosecution of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber.
Moussaoui trial
While working for the Federal Aviation Administration, Martin was assigned to the case of ''United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui'' and continued her work on that case after transferring to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2002. During the sentencing trial in March 2006, Judge Leonie Brinkema
Leonie Helen Milhomme Brinkema (born June 26, 1944) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Early life and education
She was born as Leonie Milhomme in Teaneck, New Jersey. She ...
learned that Martin contacted seven FAA witnesses in an apparent violation of a court order.[Hirschkorn, Phil (2006) "Who is Carla Martin and why is she in trouble?" CNN, March 17, 2006. Found a]
- Accessed January 8, 2008 Martin denied any wrongdoing in connection with her work on the Moussaoui trial.[Miller, Leslie. (2006) "Lawyer in Moussaoui Case Placed on Leave," March 16, 2006, Found at ww.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/16/lawyer_in_moussaoui_case_placed_on_leave/?rss_id=boston.com- Accessed January 8, 2008] The federal investigation concerning Martin's work in the case was dropped, without public comment or elaboration, in September 2006.["Feds Decline to Prosecute Government Lawyer Who Coached Moussaoui Witnesses." Associated Press. October 4, 2006]
- Accessed January, 2008
See also
*Airline security
Airport security includes the techniques and methods used in an attempt to protect passengers, staff, aircraft, and airport property from malicious harm, crime, terrorism, and other threats.
Aviation security is a combination of measures and hum ...
*
* Sensitive Security Information
References
Sources
*'' Lockerbie: The Story and the Lessons''. Rodney Wallis. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger/Greenwood, 2000. .
*Markon, Jerry. (2006) "Investigations, Lawsuits Still Dogging 9/11 Lawyer". The Washington Post. July 10, 2006. Found a
- Accessed January 8, 2008
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Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
Washington College of Law alumni
University of Tennessee alumni
Living people
20th-century American women lawyers
21st-century American women lawyers