Ellen Leonida

Ellen Valentik Leonida (born 1970 in Chişinău, Moldova, formerly Kishinev, USSR) is an American criminal defense attorney best known for defending Scott Dyleski, a young high school student accused of murdering the wife of prominent attorney Daniel Horowitz. She served as a Deputy Public Defender for almost ten years at the Contra Costa County, California Public Defender's Office. After leaving Contra Costa, she was a partner at the San Francisco firm Badami, Hartsough & Leonida. She is now with the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Oakland.