Nina Jehle

Nina Jehle is a Legal Research and Writing Instructor. After nearly a decade of criminal practice, she joined UC Davis in 2024 to pursue teaching full time.

 

Jehle received her undergraduate degree from The College of William and Mary, and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. After law school, she served as a Deputy District Attorney for Napa County for over nine years, where she conducted over 30 jury trials. Her wide array of assignments and cases ranged from vehicular manslaughter and DUI to robbery, physical child abuse and neglect, elder abuse, and complex fraud. Besides trials, her litigation practice also included research, analysis, and writing, complex discovery, and oral advocacy. 

 

While a Deputy District Attorney, Jehle has served as a supervisor in the office’s 2L Summer Law Clerk program and taught at the California District Attorneys Association Fraud Symposium. Prior to joining the Napa County DA’s office, Jehle served as a law clerk at the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office Family Violence Unit, and the Alameda County Superior Court under the Honorable Vernon Nakahara. Prior to law school, she served in AmeriCorps as an advocate at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, where she guided victims and witnesses in homicide and public integrity cases through every stage of the criminal justice process from the immediate aftermath of the crime to parole hearings. She published an article titled Legislating “Legitimate” Victims, 3 Stanford Journal of Criminal Law and Policy 55 (2016).