Meredith Patti joined NCIA in 2002 after graduating from the George Mason University School of Law. Ms. Patti has extensive experience analyzing federal sentencing guidelines and statutes and interprets applicable case law to identify both errors in the government’s calculations and mitigating information that constitutes an appropriate basis for downward departure. She compiles detailed social histories on behalf of clients facing disposition in federal courts and coordinates client placement into treatment, vocational, and community service programs. Ms. Patti also has extensive experience interpreting federal regulations regarding designation, classification, and programming within the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

At George Mason University, Ms. Patti was chosen to be a Writing Fellow where she taught Legal Research, Writing and Analysis to first-year law students for two consecutive years. In addition, she served as a research assistant to Professor Jeffrey Parker, former deputy chief counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission. In this capacity Ms. Patti performed comprehensive research and analysis for the development of a casebook on the federal sentencing guidelines and provided legal research for “The Limits of Federal Criminal Sentencing Policy; or, Confessions of Two Reformed Reformers” by Jeffrey Parker and Michael Block. Ms. Patti is a member in good standing with the Maryland State Bar.

• Jerome G. Miller, Ph.D.
• Herbert J. Hoelter, MSW
• Jayne Gessner
• Kirk Larter, CPA
• Larry G. Norris, Ed.D.
• Thomas Pointer
• Earl S. El-Amin
• Lindsay M. Hayes, MS
• David C. Heebner, MA, LPC
• Rodney Norris, MHS
• Christine Pahigian
• Meredith Patti, Esquire
• Thomas Scott, LCSW-C