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Philip A. Baddour, Jr.
Senior Partner, Baddour, Parker, Hine and Orander, North Carolina

Mark H. Bergstrom
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing

Barbara Broderick
Chief of Adult Probation and Acting Chief of Juvenile Probation, Maricopa County, Arizona

Neil R. Bryant
Senior Partner, Bryant, Lovlien and Jarvis, Oregon

Harold W. Clarke
Secretary, Washington Department of Corrections

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

Robert Lee Guy
Director, North Carolina Division of Community Corrections

Cal Hobson
Director, Adult Executive Training Programs, Oklahoma University

Kathryn P. Jett
Director, California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs

Robert Keller
Member, State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Georgia

Richard Kern
Director, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission

Michael Lawlor
State Representative, Connecticut

Robin L. Lubitz
Director, Juvenile Justice Services Division, Arizona Supreme Court

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

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

E. Michael McCann
Boden Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School, Wisconsin

Ed McConkie
Chief of the Bureau of Criminal Identification, Utah Department of Public Safety

Paul Morrison
Attorney General, Kansas

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

Reginald Robinson
President and CEO, Kansas Board of Regents

Thomas W. Ross
Executive Director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

Dora Schriro
Director, Arizona Department of Corrections

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

Richard Walker
Chief Judge, 9th Judicial District, Kansas

Gina E. Wood
President and CEO, The Winnow Group, Washington, D.C.

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Philip A. Baddour, Jr.
Senior Partner, Baddour, Parker, Hine, and Orander

Philip A. Baddour, Jr. has practiced law for over thirty-nine years and is a partner in the firm of Baddour, Parker, Hine and Orander in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives for four terms, where he held the positions of House Majority leader and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and was an ex-officio member of all House committees. He served as a United States Magistrate and was Staff Judge Advocate for the North Carolina National Guard.

As Judiciary Chairman, Mr. Baddour worked extensively on sentencing issues and has substantial experience in balancing sentencing policy with available resources. Having guided North Carolina's structured sentencing through the legislature, Mr. Baddour understands the process of changing sentencing policy and its political implications.

Mr. Baddour is Legislative Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the American Bar Association. He was formerly a member of the North Carolina Juvenile Justice State Council. He received an A.B. in economics and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mark H. Bergstrom
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing

Mark H. Bergstrom has been the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing since 1998. He is responsible for the overall management of the Commission, including the planning, development and implementation of policies and programs to support the goals and objectives of the Commission. He serves as the Commission's liaison with the General Assembly, the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts, the Governor's Office, other state and local agencies, and with the various administrative units of The Pennsylvania State University, where the Commission is based.

Mr. Bergstrom previously served as Associate Director of the Commission, where he supervised the Administrative and Field Service Units, and prior to that as an Intermediate Punishment Specialist, a position jointly funded by the Commission on Sentencing and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. In both of these positions, he was responsible for incorporating intermediate punishments into the sentencing guidelines, conducting training seminars on sentencing-related issues, and assisting counties with the development and implementation of intermediate punishment plans and programs. Prior to his work at the state level, Mr. Bergstrom was employed by the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as a Probation Officer and as Director of the Office of Volunteer and Community Services in the Probation Department.

Mr. Bergstrom holds a B.A. in Psychology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.A. from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a Senior Lecturer in Crime Law & Justice at The Pennsylvania State University, an Adjunct Professor at the Duquesne University School of Law, and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Villanova University School of Law. Barbara Broderick
Chief of Adult Probation and Acting Chief of Juvenile Probation, Maricopa County

Barbara Broderick is the Chief of Adult Probation & Acting Chief of Juvenile Probation in Maricopa County. Prior to that, she was the Chief Probation Officer of Maricopa County, and was also the State Director for Adult Probation for the Arizona Supreme Court. She has more than thirty years of experience in the criminal justice system. She is knowledgeable in the areas of risk assessment, probation performance measures, drug courts, parole guidelines, substance abuse treatment with criminal defendants, sex offender supervision, enforcement of financial obligations, and the theory and practice of community justice.

Prior to joining the Arizona judicial system, Ms. Broderick was the New York state director of probation and correctional alternatives. Before holding that directorship, she was the director of policy analysis and information for the New York state parole division. Broderick has been involved with the development and expansion of drug courts and substance abuse treatment, the design and implementation of an operational review process for the oversight of fifteen probation departments, and the development of probation performance measures in her current home state.

Ms. Broderick was elected chair of the Arizona parents' commission on drug education and prevention, where she has served since 1999. She also serves on the Arizona Community Notification Guidelines Committee. She is Vice President of the Executive Committee of the American Probation and Parole Association, and is a member of the American Corrections Association, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, the National Association of Probation executives, and the Arizona Sexual Assault Network. Broderick earned her B.A. in History at Niagara University and her M.A. at the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. Neil R. Bryant
Senior Partner, Bryant, Lovlien, and Jarvis, Oregon

Neil R. Bryant served as an Oregon state senator from 1992 until 2001, when he left the Senate due to term limits. He was Assistant Majority Leader and Chair of the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001. He served on the committees of Ways and Means, Human Resources, Rules and Elections, Legislative Counsel, Water and Land Use, Business and Labor, and the Emergency Board. Mr. Bryant is currently senior partner in the firm of Bryant, Lovlien and Jarvis, where he focuses on general business, taxation, and labor.

Mr. Bryant worked extensively on legislation in the areas of community corrections and restorative justice. In his first year as Judiciary Chairman, he rewrote the state juvenile code and created the Oregon Youth Authority. He also worked on implementation of Ballot Measure 11, the "one strike and you're out" citizen initiative. He chaired the criminal justice committee for the National Conference of State Legislators from 1995 to 1996 and served on the NCSL executive committee for three years. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the Corrections Program Office and National Institute of Justice's Executive Session on Corrections and Sentencing.

Mr. Bryant has a dedicated interest in early intervention and prevention programs, and served as the chair of the Deschutes County Children and Families Commission. He has been the president of Rotary Club, the Bend Chamber of Commerce, and the Bend Urban Renewal District. In 1995, the National Republican Legislators Association gave him the Outstanding Freshman Legislator award, and in 1998 he received their Outstanding Legislator award. Mr. Bryant earned a B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University and a J.D. from Willamette University. Harold W. Clarke
Secretary, Washington Department of Corrections

Harold W. Clarke is secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections. He was appointed to this position by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2005. Before this appointment, he was director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. He had been appointed to this position by three different governors since he began his term in 1990. Since joining the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services in an entry-level position in 1974, Mr. Clarke held eleven different positions, giving him knowledge and expertise in areas ranging from correctional leadership to management of special inmate populations to design of correctional facilities.

Mr. Clarke played a role in repealing Nebraska's "get tough" legislation in the late 1990s and served on the Governor's Task Force on Prison Alternatives from 1991 to 1993. He contributed to publications such as The State of Corrections, The Nebraska Sheriff, and Corrections Today. He was active in numerous civic and community groups, including the Lincoln Public Schools Foundation, Child Advocacy Center of Lincoln/Lancaster County, and the Lincoln Council on Alcoholism and Drugs.

Mr. Clarke is Vice President of the American Correctional Association's Executive Committee. He has consulted for the National Institute of Corrections and other branches of the United States Department of Justice and has spoken about criminal justice issues both locally and nationally. Mr. Clarke has received awards from the Nebraska Correctional Association, the Nebraska Association of Substance Abuse Directors, and the Association of State Correctional Administrators. Rosa H. Davis
Chief Assistant Attorney General, Alabama

Rosa Davis is Chief Assistant Attorney General for Attorney General Bill Pryor of Alabama and serves as the Attorney General’s appointee to the Alabama Sentencing Commission. Mrs. Davis is a graduate of the University of Alabama, receiving a B.A. in History and English, and the University of Alabama School of Law. After a clerkship with the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, Mrs. Davis became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama in 1973. She has served in that capacity under six elected attorneys general. Mrs. Davis has served in every division in the office including service as Co-Chief of the Civil Litigation Division, 1984-1986; Chief of the Criminal Appeals Division, 1986-1996; and Chief of the Capital Litigation Division, 1996-1998. She was appointed Chief Assistant Attorney General in 1998 and in that capacity serves as the senior career assistant attorney general for the office.

Mrs. Davis was appointed by Attorney General Pryor to serve as member of the Alabama Sentencing Commission in July 2000 and serves the Commission as a member of the executive committee. As Alabama pursues systematic sentencing reform, Attorney General Pryor has dedicated the majority of Mrs. Davis time to this effort.

Mrs. Davis' assignments have also included service as counsel for the Alabama Ethics Commission (1978-1986) and as chief counsel for the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama (1978-present). As counsel for the Judicial Inquiry Commission, Mrs. Davis has drafted opinions on judicial ethics, and pursues investigations of judicial conduct and represents the Commission in the prosecution of judges for ethical misconduct. Mrs. Davis is a member of the American College of Prosecuting Attorneys. She was a member of Class I of Leadership Alabama and Class III of Leadership Montgomery. Jeffrey Edblad
Isanti County Attorney, Minnesota

Jeff Edblad entered his 4th term as the elected Isanti County Attorney in Minnesota, in 2007. In addition to this position, he is the Vice Chair of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission, Chair of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission working group on Blakely v. Washington, Chair and President of the Minnesota Corrrectional Education Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota County Attorney's Association.

Prior to becoming the Isanti County Attorney, he was the Public Defender for Chisago and Isanti Counties and was the Assistant Chisago County Attorney. He received a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College and a JD from Hamline University School of Law. Richard S. Gebelein
Chief Deputy Attorney General, Delaware

The Honorable Richard S. Gebelein has been appointed Chief Deputy Attorney General for the state of Delaware. He recently completed a two-year term as an International Judge to Section I for War Crimes of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions and to Section II for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously he had been a superior court judge for the state of Delaware since 1984 and served as Chief of the Criminal Trial Division in New Castle County. Prior to his appointment to the domestic bench, he was the elected Attorney General of Delaware in 1978. He previously served as both a Deputy Attorney General and Chief Deputy Public Defender. He has been on the faculty of Widener University's School of Law, the University of Delaware, and has taught at the National Judicial College.

Judge Gebelein chaired the Delaware Sentencing Accountability Commission, having served as a member of its predecessor, the Governor's Sentencing Reform Committee. He has overseen the implementation of many correctional and treatment programs and sentencing guidelines, and has authored several pieces of legislation, including Delaware's 1990 Truth in Sentencing Act. Delaware's guidelines emphasize use of intermediate punishments and incorporate five levels of supervision under the Delaware continuum of punishment.

In 1993, Judge Gebelein initiated Delaware's Drug Court, which includes both a diversionary court as well as a fast-track probation violation and re-entry court. The drug court is now statewide. He is also a founding member of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Judge Gebelein has provided technical assistance to a number of states and other jurisdictions in implementing sentencing guidelines, truth in sentencing, and drug courts. His expertise also extends to substance abuse treatment for offenders, sentencing commissions, the use of intermediate sanctions (both within guideline and non-guideline systems), and re-entry courts. Peter Gilchrist
District Attorney, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Peter Gilchrist has served as Charlotte and Mecklenburg County’s District Attorney since his first election in 1975. Previously, Mr. Gilchrist was a C.P.A. and corporate official.

During his tenure, Mr. Gilchrist has established deferred prosecution and dispute settlement programs, a defensive driving program for traffic offenders, and a drug court program for both expedited case handling and drug treatment for offenders. He has also worked with local judges to create an expedited disposition system.

Mr. Gilchrist has strong substantive knowledge in a number of areas, particularly prosecution management and structured sentencing. He is a past president of the North Carolina District Attorneys Association and was named an outstanding faculty member for the National College of District Attorneys. He has provided technical assistance on projects for the National District Attorneys Association, the Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies, and American University. Robert Lee Guy
Director, North Carolina Division of Community Corrections

Robert Lee Guy has a distinguished twenty-nine year career in probation, parole, and community corrections. He began his career as a line probation officer and has risen through the ranks to his present position of Director of the North Carolina Division of Community Corrections; a position he has held since 1997. He led the Division through a progressive decade of change which included reorganization and developing and implementing a comprehensive community corrections strategy to support North Carolina’s 1994 Structured Sentencing Act.

Mr. Guy serves and has served on various councils and commissions throughout his career. He presently serves as North Carolina’s Commissioner for Interstate Compact and serves as Chair of the National Interstate Compact for Adult Offenders (ICAOS) “Sex Offender” Committee. He is a member of the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission. He is a past member of (NIJ) Corrections State Technology Council & Project Greenlight National Advisory Board, New York, NY. He presently serves as Program Associate with the Vera Institute of Justice, NY and has testified before legislative committees and governmental groups in Nebraska, Kansas, West Virginia, Alabama, California, Minnesota, Iowa, as well as the countries of Scotland, England, and Italy.

Mr. Guy has received numerous honors during his career, including the prestigious George W. Randall Award in 1982 as Outstanding Probation/Parole Officer in North Carolina, the East Carolina University Outstanding Alumni Award for 2004 and a National nominee for the Walter Dunbar Memorial Award in 2000. Cal Hobson
Director, Adult Executive Training Programs, University of Oklahoma

Cal Hobson joined the staff of the Oklahoma University College of Continuing Education as director of Adult Executive Training Programs, in 2007. In this role he works with corporate, military, governmental and Native American tribal leadership training programs operated through the center for continuing education. He provides direction for the training programs and also works to prepare grant applications to bring additional training programs to the center.

Hobson has recently ended his legislative career of 28 years due to term limits in the State of Oklahoma. He served as an Oklahoma state senator since 1990. Prior to that he served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990, and was elected Mayor of Lexington, Oklahoma in 1976. Over his political career, he has won numerous elections, a number of which were contested. Sen. Hobson has expertise in sentencing and corrections budgeting, education budgeting, prison operations and policies, and private prisons. He is currently Chair of the Transportation Committee. Previously, Sen. Hobson was a member of the Oklahoma Sentencing Commission and was on the steering committee for the Education Commission of the States. He was recently the Chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures Committee on Criminal Justice.

Sen. Hobson received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and completed coursework for an M.A. in political science. He has 31 years of military service, and graduated with highest honors from the Air War College in 1993. He is a retired colonel in the Oklahoma Air National Guard. Kathryn Jett
Director, California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs

Kathy Jett was appointed by the Governor as Director of the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs in November 2000. The Department provides services that include prevention, early intervention, detoxification and recovery. She is also responsible for implementation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Proposition 36) and administration of the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant.

Ms. Jett brings a unique perspective from her background and experience in both criminal justice and public health. Prior to her current position, she was appointed Director of the Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center in May 1999. In this role, she assisted the Attorney General in advocating effective crime prevention policies and strategies. During her term with the Attorney General's Office, Ms. Jett launched California Safe from the Start, a comprehensive strategy to bring community leaders from throughout the State together to address the impact of violence on children.

Ms. Jett has served as Chair of the National Crime Prevention Coalition of America. For more than three years, she also served as Chief of the State's first Office of Women's Health, which was established in the California Department of Health Services. She was instrumental in increasing awareness of the importance of women's health to lawmakers and community leaders by developing and coordinating effective policy strategies.

Ms. Jett began her career as a counselor in an adolescent alcohol and other drug program in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She joined state service in 1977 working as an analyst for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Robert Keller
Member, State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Georgia

Bob Keller was appointed to the Board of Pardons and Paroles in January 2007. He previously served as the Executive Counsel of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, a position he held since 2005. Mr. Keller will be active in lobbying the Georgia General Assembly on issues that affect prosecutors, including budgets. Keller is a former chairman of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council.

Previously, he was the District Attorney in Clayton County, Georgia. He was appointed Assistant District Attorney in Clayton County in September 1972 and remained in that position until April 1974. At that point, he joined the law firm of Watson, Brown, & Foster; the firm became Watson, Brown, Foster, & Keller in January 1975. Mr. Keller was appointed District Attorney by Governor George Busbee on July 1, 1977, to fill the unexpired term of William H. Ison who had been appointed to a Superior Court Judgeship.

Mr. Keller is currently a member of several professional organizations and committees. He has been a member of the Georgia Board of Public Safety, the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, and has served on the Board for the State Retirement Committee. Additionally, Mr. Keller was previously a member of the Georgia Code Revision Plan Committee and the Commission to Assess Crime Laboratory Needs into the 21st Century. He has also served as the Vice-Chair of the Governor's Commission on Certainty in Sentencing. Mr. Keller has also previously been a member of the Board of Directors of the Clayton County Chapter of the American Cancer Society; the Boy Scouts; the Chamber of Commerce — Leadership Clayton; and a regular guest speaker in the Clayton County School System. Mr. Keller graduated from Birmingham Southern College in 1969. He went on earn his law degree at Emory Law School in 1972. Richard P. Kern
Director, Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission

Richard P. Kern is director of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, a judicial branch agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Kern is responsible for all aspects of the Commonwealth's criminal sentencing guidelines system and reports directly to the 17-member Sentencing Commission.

Previously, Dr. Kern was director of the Virginia Criminal Justice Research Center where he was responsible for the oversight and direction of criminal justice system research requested by the Governor, Secretary of Public Safety, the Legislature, and the Judiciary. Dr. Kern has also served as research director for the Governor's Commission on Parole Abolition and Sentence Reform. There he directed research on sentencing and time served patterns, offender recidivism and risk assessment, the development of computer simulation programs to estimate the correctional resource impact of parole abolition, and the development of truth-in-sentencing guidelines.

Dr. Kern has expertise in the development and administration of sentencing guidelines and commissions development, and in the creation of information systems to support sentencing and corrections decision-making processes. In his work he has explored such topics as offender recidivism and risk assessment, and acquired experience with prison and jail population projections. Dr. Kern has twice been elected president of the Justice Research and Statistics Association. He previously served as Vice-Chair of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions. Dr. Kern received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in criminology from Florida State University. Michael Lawlor
State Representative, Connecticut

Mike Lawlor is serving his tenth term as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. He is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a member of both the Program Review and Investigations Committee and the Government Administration and Elections Committees. He is also an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven.

Rep. Lawlor has been recognized for his work reforming Connecticut's criminal justice system, including alternative forms of punishment, drug policy, juvenile justice reform, victims' rights, sexual offender registration, and reducing racial disparities in the corrections system. In 1993, 1994, and 1998, Rep. Lawlor led the successful fight for gun control in Connecticut. He has also been instrumental in reforming economic development, job training, and securing more money for Connecticut's schools.

He is active in both the National Conference of State Legislators and the Council of State Governments. He is a chair of the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project and and a member of the National Resource Committee for the Center for Sex Offender Management within the U.S. Department of Justice. Mike is a member of the American Bar Association's Coalition for Justice, a national effort to build trust and confidence in the justice system. Mike served on the national drafting team for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision and the Interstate Compact for Juvenile Probation and Parole. Recently, Mike has served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice assisting in the establishment of an adult probation system in Bulgaria. He earned a B.A. in Slavic and Eastern European studies from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. in Soviet studies from the University of London, and a J.D. from the National Law Center at George Washington University. Robin L. Lubitz
Director, Juvenile Justice Services Division, Arizona Supreme Court

Rob Lubitz is Director of the Juvenile Justice Services Division of the Arizona Supreme Court. Previously, he served as Florida's fifth State Courts Administrator. He is a former Senior Deputy Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts in North Carolina. He has extensive knowledge about the development of sentencing guidelines and sentencing policy. He also has expertise in the development of statistical databases to monitor and evaluate sentencing practices, and has developed population impact projection models for correctional systems. His knowledge of the federal funding process and grant administration in criminal justice area rounds out his familiarity with the process of sentencing reform.

Mr. Lubitz began his career as a court programs analyst for the Philadelphia Court of Appeals, and then spent 10 years with the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, where he played a role in the development and enactment of the sentencing guidelines in that state. From 1990 to 1997, Lubitz was the Executive Director of the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission, where he was instrumental in the development of the Structured Sentencing Act and the corresponding State-County Criminal Justice Partnership Act. He was then appointed Executive Director of the North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission. Lubitz also helped to establish a statewide juvenile justice reform and served as the Deputy Administrator for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention before beginning his current position at the Administrative Office of the Courts.

Lubitz has written and co-authored a number of articles in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Justice Quarterly, Overcrowded Times, Journal of Crime and Delinquency, and the Justice Research and Policy Journal. Lubitz was the chair of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions from 1995 to 1997. He was on the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council for the National Criminal Justice Associations. Lubitz earned his B.A. in Psychology from Grove City College, an M.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from West Virginia University. Ana Maria Luna
Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County, California

Ana Maria Luna has been a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge since January 2000. Previously, she was a Municipal Court Judge in the Southeast Judicial District. While serving in this position she established a drug court in southeast Los Angeles County and graduated 43 clients between May 1997 and May 2000. In 1992 she was appointed Commissioner of the Municipal Court, Southeast Judicial District. She has also served in the following positions: deputy public defender for Los Angeles County; associate at the Women's Law Center; associate at the firm of Carfrae & Miller; associate in the law offices of Richard N. Deyo; and as a law clerk in the law offices of Charles R. Weldon.

Judge Luna has been a member of the Judicial Council of California since April 1998. She has served as vice chair of the Policy Coordination and Liaison Committee, vice chair of the Rules and Project Committee, member of the Proposition 36 Implementation Workgroup, as well as a Council representative to the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs Statewide Advisory Group re: Implementation of Proposition 36. She also chairs the Los Angeles County Multi-Agency Task Force for the Implementation of Proposition 36. From 1999-2000 she held the office of vice-president for the California Judges Association, and from 1997-2000 she was an executive board member. She served as president of the Latina(o) Judicial Officers Association from 1998-2000, where she coordinated an educational forum for California judges in Mexico City. She recently received the Judge Armendariz Community Service Award, which is presented to judges who work to advance the Latino community through education, civil rights, immigration, legal activism or public service. Stephen V. Manley
Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County, California

Stephen Manley is a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara County, California, and has served on the bench for more than 25 years. He presently is the Supervising Judge for all Felony drug cases and Mental Health cases in San Jose California. He developed the Court implementation plan for Proposition 36 and supervises that implementation within the Court. He founded the Santa Clara County Drug Court in 1996 and the Mental Health Court in 1999 — the largest mental health treatment court in the United States that works with seriously mentally ill as well as dually-diagnosed clients. He is the president of the California Association of Drug Court Professionals.

Judge Manley represents the Judicial Council of California as the co-chair of the Statewide Steering Committee that oversees state funding for California’s drug courts, and has worked to secure funding each year for the expansion of drug courts and treatment, and to obtain funding for mental health courts. In addition, he represents the Judicial Council of California on the Statewide Implementation Advisory Committee for Proposition 36, and has authored and co-authored reports and recommendations for the successful implementation of Proposition 36 and treatment courts. He is a member of the Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Collaborative Justice to develop additional court innovation projects, best practices and proposed state legislation to support judicial and criminal justice reform. He also speaks and advocates for mental health and drug policy reform within the courts. E. Michael McCann
Boden Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School, Wisconsin

Michael McCann served as the elected District Attorney of Milwaukee County for 38 years (1968-2006). He retired from public service in January 2007, at which time he joined Marquette University Law School as a Boden Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law. Mr. McCann was a member of the earlier Wisconsin Sentencing Commission and served on the Statutory Committee implementing truth in sentencing in Wisconsin.

He is a past chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, has served as President of the Wisconsin District Attorney's Association, and has been on the board of directors of the National District Attorney's Association for many years. He has chaired the American Bar Association's Committee on Victims, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the American Bar Foundation. He is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pretrial Service Resource Center.

He received his B.A. from the University of Detroit, his Bachelor of Laws Degree from Georgetown University and his Master of Laws Degree from Harvard University. He has been awarded honorary LL.D. degrees from Marquette University and Marian College. Edward McConkie
Chief of the Bureau of Criminal Identification, Utah Department of Public Safety

Ed McConkie is currently Chief of the Bureau of Criminal Identification at the Utah Department of Public Safety. The Department of Public Safety is responsible for administering a wide range of public safety services for the benefit of the citizens of Utah. Previously he was the Executive Director of the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice from 2002 to 2004. For the six years prior to that, he served as the Director of the Utah Sentencing Commission. The Commission is responsible for coordinating and recommending policy concerning the sentencing of juvenile and adult offenders to all three branches of government.

Mr. McConkie graduated from the University of Utah School of Law and is a member of the Utah State Bar. He was a law clerk for two years for Justice Richard C. Howe of the Utah Supreme Court and interned for Judge J. Thomas Greene, Federal Court Judge for the District of Utah. While on the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Mr. McConkie was appointed to Utah's Commission on Racial & Ethnic Fairness in the Justice System and the Governor's DUI Council. Paul Morrison
Attorney General, Kansas

Paul Morrison was sworn in as the 42nd Attorney General of Kansas on January 8, 2007, following a 26-year career in law enforcement. A Kansas native, Paul Morrison attended Kansas State University and completed his undergraduate degree in criminal justice at Washburn University in Topeka. Upon graduation, he entered the Washburn School of Law. Following his instinct to protect and serve the people of Kansas, Paul immediately went to work as an assistant district attorney for Johnson County. In 1989, he became district attorney, winning reelection to that post in four subsequent elections, each time running unopposed. During his 26-year career in law enforcement, Paul has earned a reputation as one of Kansas' toughest prosecutors and as a leader of exceptional professional integrity and extraordinary personal character. Sharon R. Neumann
Deputy Director, Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services, Oklahoma Department of Corrections

Sharon Neumann currently serves as the Deputy Director, Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services, Oklahoma Department of Corrections. She has been involved with the development and statewide implementation of Oklahoma's community corrections act since its statutory authorization in 1997. She also administers the federal Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) grant for the state. She has been dedicated to sentencing issues for a number of years and served as the state coordinator for the Oklahoma Criminal Justice System Reform Project. Ms. Neumann has worked in corrections for more than 30 years with an emphasis in all aspects of field services and community corrections.

Ms. Neumann is a 20-year member of the American Correctional Association where she is a member of the Board of Governors and Vice-Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. She also serves as an auditor for the association's Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. Neumann is the founding president of the Oklahoma Correctional Association and has received that organization's lifetime achievement award.

Community involvement has included serving on the boards of directors for Victims Impact Panel and the Oklahoma Halfway House. Ms. Neumann received her B.A. in political science from the University of Oklahoma. Reginald Robinson
President and CEO, Kansas Board of Regents

Reginald Robinson is President and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents. Previously, he was the Chief of Staff to the Chancellor of the University of Kansas and also served as Counsel to the Chancellor before that. He was also a visiting professor at the School of Law where he taught civil rights and criminal law.

Prior to that, he served in a number of senior posts at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), which he joined in 1993 as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to Attorney General Janet Reno. Mr. Robinson's most recent post at DOJ was Acting Director of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) where he led the DOJ's efforts on the proposed victims' rights constitutional amendment. As Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States, he assisted and advised the DOJ's third-ranking official on environmental, civil rights, and justice programs matters.

Mr. Robinson has also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), where he led an effort to coordinate the Department's involvement in community-based public safety initiatives including, Project PACT (Pulling America's Communities Together), Operation Weed and Seed, and Empowerment Zones.

Mr. Robinson has broad experience with drug courts, having led the Justice Department's effort to implement the 1994 Crime Act's Drug Courts Program. He is a member of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, which honored him with its Leadership Award for his work in the area. He is also a member of the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Organization of Victim Assistance. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at the National Crime Prevention Council.

Mr. Robinson earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kansas, where he was Student Body Vice President, President of the Kansas Union Board of Directors and Editor in Chief of the Kansas Law Review. He was also a field artillery officer in the United States Army. Thomas W. Ross
Executive Director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

Thomas W. Ross is the Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Prior to his appointment in January 2001, he served as the Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts from June 1999 until December 2000 and as a Superior Court Judge for the Eighteenth Judicial District of North Carolina from 1984 until 2000. Prior to 1984, Judge Ross served as an Administrative Assistant to former Congressman Robin Britt; partner in the law firm of Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James, and Harkavy; and assistant professor of law and government at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1996, Judge Ross was named North Carolina Trial Judge of the Year.

Judge Ross served as Chair of the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission from 1990 to 1999. In this capacity, he led North Carolina to adopt innovative sentencing guidelines and community corrections legislation that have been called a "model for the nation" by the American Bar Association. North Carolina's sentencing laws, known as Structured Sentencing, were recognized with the 1997 Innovations in American Government Award sponsored by the Ford Foundation and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Judge Ross has spoken to governmental leaders in more than twenty states on sentencing reform and community corrections. His areas of expertise include the role of intermediate sanctions in sentencing policy and the establishment and operation of sentencing commissions.

Judge Ross received a B.A. from Davidson College and a J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina. He is a graduate of the National Judicial College General Jurisdiction course. Dora Schriro
Director, Arizona Department of Corrections

Dora Schriro was appointed Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections in 2003. Dr. Schriro has more than 20 years of corrections experience during which time she was been the first woman to lead two state correctional systems and is the only woman to lead two states correctional systems. Just prior to her appointment as Director in Arizona, Dr. Schriro served as the Commissioner of the St. Louis (Missouri) City Division of Corrections as well as the Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections from 1993 to mid 2001. Before joining the MO state system in 1993 as Director, Dr. Schriro was the Correctional Superintendent for the City of St. Louis. Director Schriro also served as Assistant Commissioner in the New York City Department of Corrections from 1985 - 1989. Director Schriro earned a juris doctorate from St. Louis University in 2002, a doctorate from Columbia University in 1983, a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 1976, and a bachelor of arts cum laude from Northeastern University in 1974. She has taught law, criminal justice, and psychology on the graduate level as adjunct faculty throughout her career. Her work has been recognized by her peers who named her top Corrections Director in 1999 and it has brought distinction to the field earning four Innovations in American Government awards from the JFK School of Government and three Innovations awards from the Council of State and Local Government. Dr. Schriro was recognized by the National Governors’ Association in August 2006 with its Distinguished Service Award. Mindy Tarlow
Executive Director, Center for Employment Opportunities, New York

Mindy Tarlow is the Executive Director of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), a large New York-based nonprofit corporation that provides employment services to men and women returning from prison and other ex-offenders under community supervision. CEO was created by the Vera Institute of Justice in the late 1970s and has been operating as an independent corporation since 1996. Ms. Tarlow began her association with CEO as a Program Director at the Vera Institute of Justice in 1994, where she managed the successful spin-off of CEO from Vera.

Prior to joining CEO, Ms. Tarlow spent close to ten years at the New York City Office of Management and Budget where she rose from Senior Analyst in 1984 to Deputy Director in 1992. Ms. Tarlow guided many criminal justice projects during her tenure in government including co-authoring the Mayor's Safe Streets, Safe City Omnibus Criminal Justice Program.

Ms. Tarlow has experience in governmental budgeting and financial analysis, community corrections, employment, cost saving and productivity measures in criminal justice, parole and welfare reform, non-profit management, and communications. She has been a guest lecturer at several universities, including Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs and New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Administration. In 1998, Ms. Tarlow traveled to South Africa to share her criminal justice and governmental budgeting experience with the Minister of Justice and members of his staff.

Ms. Tarlow holds a B.A. with honors in music from Boston University. Richard Walker
Chief Judge, 9th Judicial District, Kansas

Richard B. Walker is Chief Judge of the 9th Judicial District, Kansas, which is composed of Harvey and McPherson Counties. He has been on the bench since 1985. Previously, Judge Walker served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, as Chief Legislative Assistant to United States Senator James Pearson of Kansas, and for four years as a member of the Kansas Parole Board. He also practiced law for eight years.

Judge Walker was appointed as an original member of the Kansas Sentencing Commission at the time of its creation in 1989, and served as Chair from 1997 to 2000, when he stepped down. Judge Walker has also chaired numerous subcommittees of the Kansas Sentencing Commission, including the Task Force on Field Services Consolidation.

Judge Walker's chief areas of expertise include the creation and operation of sentencing commissions, sentencing guideline formation, and development of judicial sentencing protocols and practices. He is knowledgeable about parole practices and legislative relations. Gina E. Wood
President and CEO, The Winnow Group, Washington, D.C.

Gina Wood has a long career in public service at the state and federal levels working to improve the lives of children, youth and families. She has worked coast to coast in rural, suburban, and urban communities in leadership positions guiding organizations in strategic planning, organizational development, effective communication strategies, program and resource development, and building public and private sector partnerships. In addition, she has lead major federal interagency collaborations such as the creation of a National Center on Education, Disabilities and Juvenile Justice. She also advises national foundations, such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in program development, implementation, and sustainability strategies.

Gina began her career in Oregon working at a weekly newspaper in public affairs and as a special reporter covering major events such as the Democratic National Convention in 1984. She has worked in the legislative and executive branches of government in Oregon and was tapped by the Governor of South Carolina to join his cabinet and serve as the director of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Gina was recruited by the U.S. Department of Justice to serve as staff director for the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, chaired by the Attorney General. Her ability to build and sustain partnerships resulted in the launching of Cabinet-level signature initiatives, such as the link between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. Gina’s work history also includes serving as the interim Executive Director of a multi-service social service agency.

In addition to her public service, Gina was a managing associate at Caliber Associates where she led the development and implementation of two national training and technical assistance centers. In addition, she developed an online learning tool to support AmeriCorps*VISTA in strengthening the capacity of grassroots community- and faith-based organizations. She has worked over the course of her career with diverse populations to strengthen communications and enhance services delivery systems. Specifically, she led one of the first national demonstration sites for the U.S. Department of Justice to address the disproportionate number of minorities in the juvenile justice system. In addition, she worked closely with the federally recognized tribes in Oregon to access federal funding and improve their juvenile justice system.

Gina continues to advocate for issues she cares about and former Governor Mark Warner appointed her in 2003 to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice. Also, she recently joined the board of directors for the William E. Doar, Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In addition, her on going concern for the health and safety of children inspired her to join the advisory board for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Gina has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Missouri.