Eli Northrup


Eli Northrup has worked at the Bronx Defenders since 2015 and handles both felony and misdemeanor cases while serving as a member of the Policy Team. After graduating cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2011, he clerked for the Hon. Robert P. Patterson in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, then for the Hon. Julio M. Fuentes on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2013, he joined Georgetown University Law Center’s Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic as an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow, handling misdemeanor and felony cases in Washington D.C. Superior Court and supervising third-year law students. He received his L.L.M. in Trial Advocacy from Georgetown in 2015. During law school, Eli interned at public defender offices in Harlem, the Bronx, New Orleans, and Washington D.C., and at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He received a B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Law & Society from Cornell University in 2007.

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