Our Team
Our Team
Our dedicated attorneys are distributed across Eastern Oregon and share decades of knowledge and experience to ensure you get the best representation possible.
In addition, our team of defense investigators and legal assistants works hard to build a robust and complete defense. We will chase down every lead to get the evidence we need to make your case.
Our Attorneys
Kathleen Dunn
Director
Kati is President of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and for 20 years worked at Metropolitan Public Defender in Multnomah County, where she served as County Director. She is Executive Director of Elkhorn Public Defender.
Kyra Rohner
Assistant Director
Kyra has practiced law in Baker County since 2008, and has worked as a defense attorney since 2005 when she graduated from Willamette College of Law. She is murder qualified and handles both criminal and juvenile dependency cases.
Marcus Oatman
Staff Attorney
Marcus is a longtime Pacific Northwester, originally from Chicago (with a layover in Ann Arbor, Michigan). He has been a full-time defense attorney since 2015, working as a public defender in Lane County, Central Oregon, and Eastern Oregon. He is currently a member of the Oregon State Bar Criminal Executive Committee and the OCLDA Juvenile Executive Board.
Tamara Scull
Staff Attorney/
Training Director
Tamara worked as a Staff Attorney with the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy for seven years before moving across the country to join Elkhorn in 2021. She graduated magna cum laude from Salmon P Chase College of Law and interned with the Bronx Defenders, Gideon's Promise, and the Brennan Center for Justice. In addition to her criminal work and public interest law at Elkhorn, she serves as Training Director and runs the summer internship program.
Will Thomson
Staff Attorney
Will graduated from the University of Oregon Law School after earning his undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado. He decided to become an attorney after breaking both arms in a climbing accident. Will has been a Public Defender for five years, starting at Elkhorn (he's our longest-serving attorney) with a one-year stint working at Lane County Public Defenders before coming back to Elkhorn. He has moved ten times in the last ten years, but is currently quite settled in our Baker City office.
chris Bateman
Staff Attorney
Chris is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating from the University of Tennessee at Martin he attended the University of Illinois College of Law. There he served indigent clients while interning with Land of Lincoln Legal Aid, the Champaign County Public Defender’s Office, and the Family Advocacy Clinic of the University of Illinois, where worked on juvenile dependency cases. Now with Elkhorn, he continues the fight in defense of his clients’ constitutional rights.
Hannah Jenkins
Staff Attorney
Hannah is originally from Chicagoland and got her bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies at Northern Illinois University before attending Lewis and Clark Law School. She interned with Lewis and Clark's International Environmental Law Clinic and at Elkhorn Public Defender. She has been active in environmental justice work before and during law school, which includes advocating for all people everywhere to have the same rights and justice, which is what led her to public defense today.
Currently Seeking
Attorney
Elkhorn currently has an open Attorney position in our Vale office. Please contact us if you are interested!