Legal career
Krell received her Juris Doctor from the University of California,Davis School of Law in 2003,and started her career as a deputy district attorney for San Joaquin County,in Stockton,California. She subsequently moved to the California Department of Justice where she prosecuted a wide variety of cases,including cold case murders,white collar crime,and multi-jurisdictional cases. She was promoted to Supervising Deputy Attorney General,and led California’s Special Prosecution Unit. [3]
In that role,Krell distinguished herself as both a prosecutor of human traffickers and an advocate for survivors. She led the successful prosecution of executives of Backpage.com,at the time the largest online sex trafficking platform in the world, [4] which resulted in the site being shut down in 2018. [5] Krell described her work against the site in her 2022 book Taking Down Backpage:Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker:A Prosecutor’s Story. [6] The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children honored Krell with a career achievement award for her work on the Backpage case. [7] As an advocate for survivors,Krell helped secure the early release of a sex-trafficking survivor who had been imprisoned as a teenager for crimes stemming from her victimization. [8] Krell has been outspoken about the need for better treatment of victims by the criminal justice system. [9]
In 2018,Krell joined Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California as their Chief Legal Counsel,seeking to help combat efforts by the Trump Administration to cut funding and curtail access to low-cost reproductive healthcare. In that role,she filed an amicus brief defending a California law that sought to reduce targeted dissemination of misinformation about reproductive healthcare from a suit that was being heard by the Supreme Court. [2] She also defended access to federal family planning funds by seeking an injunction under the federal government’s Title X Rule. [10]
After the Trump Administration began a policy of separating families arrested for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border,Krell served as a volunteer lawyer,helping to reunite separated parents and children,and worked to challenge the federal government’s policy through legal action. [11]
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