Terri Moore, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas is a veteran trial lawyer with 14 years of experience at the state level as a prosecutor, over four years experience as a federal prosecutor—where she tried the largest child internet pornography case in U.S. history—and seven years experience as a criminal defense attorney. She is board certified in criminal law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. From 2007 to July 2011, Moore was the First Assistant District Attorney for Dallas County, Texas. As such, she was responsible for supervising over 400 employees. Moore was the driving force in establishing the Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), which has made a significant impact on the criminal justice system. The CIU uses DNA evidence to exonerate those wrongfully convicted of crimes, and further investigates questionable convictions that lack DNA evidence. Moore’s recent publication “Prosecutors Reinvestigate Questionable Evidence Dallas Establishes ‘Conviction Integrity Unit’” is published in the Criminal Justice Magazine, Fall 2011.

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Jena has over 18 years experience as a criminal law paralegal. In 1997, Jena became a certified paralegal, which the American Bar Association recognizes as a designation that “marks a high level of professional achievement,” and signifies her ability to provide superior services to firms. (www.nala.org). As a certified paralegal, Jena must fulfill ongoing educational requirements that include 50 hours every five years of Continuing Legal Education (CLE).

In addition to being a certified paralegal, Jena has been a member of the State Bar of Texas Paralegal Division for many years and currently is the State Bar of Texas Paralegal Division Board Representative for the College of the State Bar of Texas. Jena became a member of the Fort Worth Paralegal Association (FWPA) in 1992 and was the President of the FWPA in 2005, where she served on the board for a total of six years. Jena was also nominated for Paralegal of the Year from 2003-2006 while a member of the Fort Worth Paralegal Division. Jena’s “Paralegal Profile” was in West’s Paralegal Today, Fourth Edition.

Jena was also featured in “Dallas DNA,” a six-week television series on Investigation Discovery (ID) in April 2009 based on the Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). Jena was the paralegal for the CIU when it was created in 2007 and continued her work with the CIU until 2011. The CIU was the first of its kind in the United States and was created to review actual claims of innocence in Dallas County, Texas.