Hope Campbell

Hope Campbell is a graduate of Duke University where she received her B.A. in History, cum laude, and the University of Maine School of Law, where she received her J.D., cum laude. She joined the Crawford County Public Defender’s Office in June of 2024 as an Assistant Public Defender. Her practice spans the entire horizon of a criminal case and has been focused on both juvenile and adult cases. While new to criminal defense, Hope brings 28 years of legal experience to her advocacy for clients’ legal defense, and their mental, physical and emotional health needs, including any drug and alcohol treatment.

Hope spent the first 16 years of her legal career as an environmental and land use attorney at two private law firms in Maine, where she was a partner in a 30-attorney law firm and chair of the environmental practice group. In 2012, she moved back to her native northwestern Pennsylvania. From 2013 to 2021, she was Assistant Counsel in the Northwest Pennsylvania office of the Commonwealth’s Department of Environmental Protection. Most recently, she spent two years working remotely as a contract attorney for a global law firm based in San Francisco, before joining the Crawford County Public Defender’s office this past summer.

Hope is active in her community and is President of the Meadville Neighborhood Center, a nonprofit committed to fostering relationships between city residents to create a greater sense of community connection. She is also involved in supporting the local recovery community and is currently working with Hayden House, which will be Meadville’s first halfway house for women in recovery when it opens later this year. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, dance, and being part of a bell choir with her husband. She has two grown sons, an elderly labradoodle, and four cats.