TOBIE SMITH

Director of Criminal Defense Clinic and
Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction

Tobie Smith is an assistant professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Before joining the faculty at Alabama Law, he was an appellate attorney from 2016-2024 with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Alabama, where he principally represented indigent defendants on appeal. From 2002-2016, he was a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Birmingham, defending children in trial-court and appellate juvenile-delinquency proceedings. His scholarship focuses on criminal and juvenile law and procedure.