Julie Adams DeFord is an attorney and owner of DeFord Law, P.C., in Nampa, Idaho, where she practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, guardianship/conservatorship, real estate and business transactions. Julie is a member of the Idaho State Bar. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 1996. Julie was a member of the National Moot Court Team and earned the award of Order of the Barristers.

Julie is a past President of the Idaho Third District Bar Association and received the Professionalism Award for the Third District Bar Association in 2016.

Julie is an Idaho native and grew up in a small, southern Idaho farming community.