Marilyn Nevy Cruz

Board Member: Marilyn Nevy Cruz

Marilyn Nevy Cruz is a Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia and previously served as a staff investigator (2012–2017) and created and manages the agency’s investigative internship program. She has translated plea agreements, indictments, statements of fact, and other legal documents for attorneys from English to Spanish, and translated Spanish written statements and legal documents to English. Nevy Cruz is President of  the Rotary Foundation of Washington DC and active in National Women’s Foundation and a number of other groups including Reynolds Prospect Condominiums, Pi Sigma Alpha, Phi Gamma Chi, the National Defender Investigator Association, and the Multicultural Career Intern Program at Columbia Heights Educational Campus. She was recognized in 2021 as a young leader in Northern Virginia’s 40 under 40 program. She earned a BA in political science with a minor in criminal justice from San Francisco State University and an MA in political science from California State University Fullerton.