Dixon, J. Wells

Position

Senior Staff Attorney, GGJI

Biography

J. Wells Dixon joined the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2006. He works on the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, challenging the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. He represents clients in federal court and before the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, including men from Algeria, China (East Turkestan), Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Among his clients is former Baltimore-area resident Majid Khan, who was imprisoned and tortured in secret CIA "black sites" for more than three years before he was transferred to Guantánamo Bay in September 2006. Wells lectures and comments frequently on national security issues, executive detention and torture. He previously worked at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense and securities litigation. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Colorado School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. Wells is a former law clerk to the Honorable Christopher F. Droney of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.