Center on Sentencing and Corrections: Associates

To help clients navigate the political, financial, and bureaucratic obstacles to meaningful reform, Vera provides peer-to-peer assistance via our associates—active practitioners with reform experience. Vera associates include judges, legislators, prosecutors, and other professionals who know firsthand both what it takes to change systems and what is and is not transferable across jurisdictions.

Associates of Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections include:

Mark H. Bergstrom
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing

Barbara Broderick
Chief of Adult Probation, Maricopa County, Arizona

Harold W. Clarke
Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction

Rosa H. Davis
Chief Assistant Attorney General, Alabama

Jeffrey Edblad
Isanti County Attorney, Minnesota

Richard Gebelein
Chief Deputy Attorney General, Delaware

Peter Gilchrist
District Attorney, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Richard Kern
Director, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission

Michael Lawlor
State Representative, Connecticut

Ana Maria Luna
Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County, California

Stephen V. Manley
Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County, California

Sharon R. Neumann
Deputy Director, Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services, Oklahoma Department of Corrections

Mindy Tarlow
Executive Director, Center for Employment Opportunities, New York

Richard Walker
Chief Judge, 9th Judicial District, Kansas

For more information on the Center on Sentencing and Corrections, contact Peggy McGarry.