Christine A. Freeman retired on October 3, 2025, after working with the Middle District of Alabama Federal Defender Program, Inc. and the Alabama Post-Conviction Relief Project for thirty years, the last twenty-six as the Executive Director.  Christine Freeman is the Founder and Executive Director of the Alabama Post-Conviction Relief Project. Christine has served as the Executive Director of the Middle District of Alabama Federal Defender Program, Inc., in Montgomery, Alabama since 1999. During her tenure as head of the Federal Defender Office, Christine saw many federal capital habeas clients denied any opportunity of relief due to failures by their state post-conviction counsel. In 2004, Christine initiated the Alabama Post-Conviction Relief Project, which seeks to avoid these issues by assisting state post-conviction counsel with support and resources in representing capital clients during the Rule 32 process.

Prior to joining the federal defender’s office in Montgomery as Senior Litigator in 1995, Christine was an assistant federal defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennessee. She has also been employed in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee; in the county public defender’s office for Davidson County, Tennessee; spent five years as a staff attorney in prison and post-conviction litigation for the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia; and was a staff attorney and branch office director in three different legal services offices in Eastern Kentucky with the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky.

Christine received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her undergraduate B.A. from the University of Michigan, with high honors in history.

She has served on the boards of the Alabama and Tennessee Criminal Defense Lawyers Associations, the Montgomery chapter of the American Inns of Court, the Montgomery chapter of the Federal Bar Association; the Alabama affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union; the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery; and the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice.  She has one son, several grown foster children, and many foster and biological grandchildren, and there are now four public interest lawyers among her children and their partners.  She became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2022.