Jeanne Bishop

Jeanne Bishop is the sister of Nancy Bishop Langert, who was murdered in 1990 along with her husband and their unborn baby. Since the murders of her family members, Jeanne has been a passionate voice for forgiveness and mercy based on her Christian faith, on issues such as abolition of the death penalty, reform of juvenile life sentences and increasing the use of clemency for the incarcerated. Jeanne appears in several death penalty documentaries, two TEDx talks and the CBS 48 Hours segment “Road to Redemption.”

A graduate of Northwestern University’s journalism and law schools, Jeanne was also a Visiting Student at Yale Law School. She is a public defender in Chicago and an adjunct law professor in trial advocacy at Northwestern, where she received the school’s alumni award for pubic service.

Jeanne has written widely in law journals, newspapers and magazines, online sites such as HuffingtonPost and CNN.com, and academic books. Her memoir Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer (Westminster John Knox Press 2015) is followed by the forthcoming true story set against the backdrop of the Oklahoma City bombing, Grace From the Rubble, to be published by Zondervan in April, 2020.