April O’Grady

April O’Grady (she/her) has been a contract examiner with State Forensic Service since 2004 and maintains a full-time private practice, exclusively conducting forensic evaluations. Particular areas of expertise are in insanity/criminal responsibility, competence to proceed, recidivism risk, and diagnosis and treatment planning within the legal context. She performs work for various courts including district, juvenile, federal, and civil, and particularly enjoys cases involving murder, serious violent crime, and complex factors. Sample cases can be found here: State of Maine v. Christopher Hallowell; State of Maine v. Jeskey. 

Until 2024, she was also the Director of the Psychological Services Center (PSC), UMaine’s in-house training clinic for the Doctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology. Through her work at UMaine, she provided clinical training and supervision for doctoral students with particular interests in forensic psychology and supervised students’ forensic evaluations for the Department of Corrections. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at UMaine.