Shelly Richter is an attorney at the Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada, in Las Vegas. Since 2022, she has worked in the office's non-capital habeas unit, representing people who are incarcerated in Nevada state prisons. She has had the privilege to represent her clients in many different forums, including state and federal district court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Nevada Supreme Court, and the Nevada Pardons Board. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable Justice Kristina Pickering of the Nevada Supreme Court. She graduated from University of California, Davis, School of Law, where she received the Law School Medal for highest academic achievement, and was Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the UC Davis Law Review.