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title: 'News Brief — Dana Cook Named National Mitigation Coordinator'
description: 'NEWS (2/19/20): Dana Cook has been named National Mitigation Coordinator for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’ National Habeas Assistance and…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news-developments-dana-cook-named-national-mitigation-coordinator'
section: news
date: '2020-02-19T14:41:00-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T15:04:14-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! **NEWS (2/19/20): Dana Cook has been named National Mitigation Coordinator for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts' National Habeas Assistance and Training Counsel Project.** Cook has more than two decades of experience in capital defender offices in Pennsylvania and Tennessee working as a mitigation specialist at the trial and post-conviction stages of death-penalty cases and in training lawyers and investigators in preparing and presenting mitigating evidence. She currently serves as the co-director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation. She will replace longtime National Mitigation Coordinator Russ Stetler, who is retiring April 1, 2020.