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 prisoners from Algeria, China (East Turkestan), Libya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. He also represents 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 is part of the legal team currently challenging the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in the United States Supreme Court. He lectures and comments frequently on national security issues, executive detention and torture.

Wells 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. He is a former law clerk to the Honorable Christopher F. Droney of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.