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Simmie Baer is a nationally renowned juvenile defender and served as attorney-supervisor of the Juvenile Division of The Defender Association in Seattle for 16 years. She is a founder and current board president of Teamchild, a national model for educational and juvenile justice advocacy with offices in five counties in Washington. She is also a board member of the Public Defender Trial Advocacy Program of the National Defender Training Project. Baer's passionate advocacy as a juvenile defender has earned her several awards, including the Livingston Hall Award of the American Bar Association (1995), the Paul Robeson Peace and Justice Award from Mothers for Police Accountability, and the William O. Douglas Award of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2002).