Carla Martin

Carla Jean Martin is an American lawyer.

Early life and career Carla is the daughter of Charles W. Martin and Jean D. Henderson. She was born in Washington, D.C. and her family lived there until she was 9.

Attorney career

Martin earned her J.D. degree from the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington D.C. in 1989

Martin was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania in 1990. Her job then was to protect information about airline security, sensitive security information (SSI), from entering the trial’s public record.

Martin was also involved in the prosecution of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber.

Moussaoui trial

While working for the Federal Aviation Administration, Martin was assigned to the case of United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui and continued her work on that case after transferring to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2002. During the sentencing trial in March 2006, Judge Leonie Brinkema learned that Martin contacted seven FAA witnesses in an apparent violation of a court order. Martin denied any wrongdoing in connection with her work on the Moussaoui trial. The federal investigation concerning Martin's work in the case was dropped, without public comment or elaboration, in September 2006.