Denise I. Young is the most recent addition to the Habeas Assistance and Training Counsel Project. She has been practicing criminal law since 1983. From 1989 to 1996, Denise served as director of the Arizona Capital Representation Project, and from 1996 until 1999 was with the Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona.

Denise has argued two capital cases in the United States Supreme Court, Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal, 118 S.Ct. 1618 (1998); and Schad v. Arizona, 501 U.S. 624 (1991), and was co-counsel in Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S. 639 (1990).

Denise has taught death penalty litigation at Arizona State University College of Law and at the University of Arizona College of Law. She has mentored hundreds of lawyers as resource counsel, and through her teaching, lectures, and addresses on capital litigation, and has received numerous awards for her outstanding public service in aid of indigent death-sentenced persons. Denise also serves on a variety of bench and bar committees related to criminal law.

Denise has been part of the Habeas Assistance and Training Counsel project since January 1999.