Jaye Mendros graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1994, top 10% of her class (Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers). Always a defender of the Constitution, she won the Michael Salem Civil Rights Award and the William H. Grimes Civil Libertarian Award. Her writing skills earned her publication on Oklahoma's Law Review, on which she served as Note Editor. She also received the American Jurisprudence Award for Criminal Procedure II and Conflicts of Laws. Ms. Mendros has worked in the Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office (general felony division), the Court of Criminal Appeals (judicial assistant to Charles S. Chapel), and the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System's DNA and Capital Trial Divisions, where she helped inmates secure release from wrongful convictions through DNA testing and defended death penalty cases before Oklahoma juries and on appeal. In 2002 she went into private practice, and in 2005 she and William H. Stout began doing business as Mendros & Stout.
