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- Hon. Pamila J. Brown Liaison from ABA Judicial Division Ellicott City, MD
- Susan Leah Dechovitz Liaison from the Miami Dade Office of the State Attorney Miami, FL
- Jerry Gardner Liaison from ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities West Hollywood, CA
- Roy A. Hammer Liaison from ABA Center for Human Rights Boston, MA
- Pearl Kim Liaison from the National District Attorneys Association Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association Media, PA
- Andrea Kramer Liaison from National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations Boston, MA
- John A. Martin, Ph.D. Liaison from State Courts Collaborative Boulder, CO
- Selene Martin Liaison from LexisNexis Washington, DC
- Michael J. Navarre Liaison from ABA Section of Public Contract Law Washington, DC
- Krishna Patel Liaison from North American South Asian Bar Association Bridgeport, CT
Hon. Ann Breen-Greco Liaison from National Association of Women Judges Chicago, IL Ann Breen-Greco is an Administrative Law Judge/Hearing Officer with the Illinois State Board of Education, presiding over special education hearings. Previously, she was an Administrative Law Judge at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Judge Breen-Greco is also an arbitrator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and mediator with the Illinois Department of Human Services. Judge Breen-Greco is chair-elect of the American Bar Association’s National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary (NCALJ), chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Administrative Law Section and a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, past chair of the Women’s Bar Association’s Boards and Commissions Committee, member of the National Association of Women Judges, past chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, a past president of the Illinois Association of Administrative Law Judges (IAALJ), and past board member of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges (NAALJ). Judge Breen-Greco has organized a number of conferences for administrative law judges and has been a faculty member at seminars for administrative law judges. She also developed the first Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program in Illinois for Administrative Law Judges which was sponsored by IAALJ. Most recently she developed a CLE program for the Chicago Bar Association ADR Committee entitled, “The role of the ADR community in helping to stop the killing of our children in Chicago.” She is also a certified restorative justice facilitator and has received certification for peacemaker/peace circles. Recently, she has written two legal articles: “Immunity for Administrative Law Judges” which was published in the Illinois State Bar Association Administrative Law Section Newsletter, and “Special Education Hearing Officer: A ‘Hybrid’ Federal/State Administrative Law Judge”, published as a chapter in the Illinois State Bar Association Administrative Law Handbook. For more than two decades she has worked to reduce violence against women, working with women’s groups and elected officials to promote the Violence Against Women Act and continuing to lobby for its funding. Her efforts on behalf of survivors of sexual assault include media contact to address the issue of portrayal of violence against women as “entertainment” and working with women’s advocacy groups to advocate for judicial training on sexual assault. Judge Breen-Greco is the recipient of a number of awards and recognition including the Women’s Bar Association Woman of Vision award; U.S. Customs Department Woman of Vision and Courage award; Illinois Institute of Technology Women’s Network Julia Beveridge award, for contribution to the IIT community; Illinois Treasurer’s Woman to Woman award--Women Making a Difference, motivational category; Center for Conflict Resolution, ten years of service mediating court-referred misdemeanors; Lerner Newspaper Citizen of the Month; Chicago Housing Authority Sports-O-Rama, for organizing running clinics for children in the housing projects; Spirit of Love Committee for Little City, for work on behalf of mentally and physically challenged youth and adults; International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies, for outstanding service and contribution as a workshop presenter; International Association of Administrative Professionals, for a presentation on how women can take control of their lives. She has been featured in articles in the Chicago Tribune’s WomanNews, Lerner Newspaper, and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. She has appeared on WGN’s morning show, cable television’s Cathi Watson show--Ageless for Life, and Clark Weber’s radio show. Judge Breen-Greco is active in her community and served as President of the Ravenswood Community Council for two years and on the board for several years. She has been a parent volunteer at her daughter’s elementary school and has participated in the Principal for a Day program for six years, conducting mock trials with seventh and eighth graders. Hon. Pamila J. Brown Liaison from ABA Judicial Division Ellicott City, MD Pamila J. Brown has served as an Associate Judge for the District Court in Howard, Maryland since 2002. In that capacity she presides over civil, criminal, domestic and traffic cases. Judge Brown received her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, after earning a B.S. in Political Science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Prior to her appointment to the bench she served as a Maryland Assistant Attorney General and an Assistant City Solicitor in the Baltimore City Law Department. She is a frequent lecturer locally and nationally on ethics, tort liability, litigation techniques, gender equity, domestic violence, trial advocacy and professionalism. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Baltimore Law School and on the faculty of the Southeastern National Institute of Trial Advocacy, (NITA), the Maryland Judicial Institute and a lecturer for the Defense Research Institute (DRI). Judge Brown is the former Chair of the ABA the Chair of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence and the ABA Government Lawyers Division and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Specialized Trial Court Judges, the Standing Committee on Public Education and the GP Solo Division. Judge Brown is a Past President of the Baltimore YWCA, and the first women of color to serve as President of the Bar Association of Baltimore City and the Howard County Bar Associations. Her civic activities are extensive and include past service as President of the Baltimore YWCA, Chair of the Hickory Ridge Village Board and the Greater Northwood Community Association. She is Co- Chair of the Family & Sexual Violence Coordinating Council of Howard County, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Lupus Foundation and is a current Secretary and member of the Maryland State Bar Board of Governors. Judge Brown=s honors include being named as one of Maryland=s Top 100 Women, Alumnus of the Year at the University of Baltimore Law School, the Leadership in the Law Award from “The Daily Record”, YWCA Leader Lunch Presidents Award, BLSA Distinguished Alumni, the ‘Torch Bearer Award”, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, The Living History Award from the Association of Negro and Professional Women and the Brent- Mitchell Award from the Baltimore City Bar Association. She has also been recognized nationally and is the recipient of the American Bar Association Nelson Award, “The Difference Maker Award” from the ABA General Practice and Solo Firm Division and the Distinguished Citizen Award from Macalester College. Susan Leah Dechovitz Liaison from the Miami Dade Office of the State Attorney Miami, FL Susan Leah Dechovitz has devoted her career to public service and has been employed at the Office of the State Attorney in Miami-Dade County for over 33 years. She has spent the vast majority of her career prosecuting homicide cases, and also has extensive experience prosecuting sexual batteries, robberies and public corruption cases. She began in the Juvenile Division, was promoted to the Felony Division and very quickly rose to the position of division chief, where she supervised attorneys and focused on homicide trials. Shortly thereafter, she was promoted to what was then called the Major Crimes Division (now Senior Trial Counsel) where she tried the most difficult and complex cases in the office. Ms. Dechovitz is currently part of the administrative team running the office, supervises all training for the office, and is a Senior Trial Counsel. In addition to these duties, Ms. Dechovitz has been given the honor of holding the position of Director of the State Attorney’s Office Human Trafficking Unit and Task Force. Recently, as Senior Trial Counsel, Ms. Dechovitz successfully prosecuted two defendants who kidnapped, robbed and eventually murdered five victims. In 2010, Ms. Dechovitz was honored by the law enforcement community by being selected as Prosecutor of the Year. In addition to the foregoing, Ms. Dechovitz has the honor and distinction of serving as one of the legal counsel to the Grand Jury. A significant part of her duties with the Grand Jury involve conducting Grand Jury investigations such as the recent investigations into Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami’s public, safety net hospital, and the investigation into child homicide while the child was in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families. Subsequent to her work with the Grand Jury on matters concerning Jackson Memorial Hospital, she served as the Vice-Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Hospital Governance Task Force. In addition, she reviews all police use of deadly force matters in Miami-Dade County. Ms. Dechovitz is also noted for the successful prosecution of the first case in the nation of a husband raping his wife while they were actively married and living together. Ms. Dechovitz received her bachelor’s degree in political science from New York University in 1974 and her law degree from Nova University in 1978. While in law school, she successfully completed a certified legal internship with the State Attorney in Miami. Ms. Dechovitz began her career as an assistant state attorney in that same office immediately after graduation from law school. Jerry Gardner Liaison from ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities West Hollywood, CA Jerry Gardner (Cherokee), JD, is an attorney with more than 30 years of experience working with Indian tribes and tribal court systems with a particular focus on crime victimization issues such as child abuse and violence against Native women. He is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.A. in 1976) and the Antioch School of Law (J.D. in 1979). He is the founding Executive Director of the Tribal Law and Policy Institute www.tlpi.org an Indian owned and operated non-profit corporation established in 1996 to design and deliver education, research, training, and technical assistance programs which promote the improvement of justice in Indian country and the health, well-being, and culture of Native peoples. He has also served as the Director of the National Child Welfare Resource Center on Tribes (www.NRC4Tribes.org) since its establishment in October 2009. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) from 1995-2000, at UCLA School of Law from 2002-2006, and at Southwestern School of Law (2009). He has been a tribal appellate court judge for various tribal courts including the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota and the Poarch Creek Band in Alabama. He served as the Administrator for the National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) from May 1998-December 2000 when he established NAICJA’s National Tribal Justice Resource Center. He served as the Senior Staff Attorney with the National Indian Justice Center (NIJC) from NIJC’s establishment in 1983 until December 1996. He has also worked for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (1978-1979), the national office of the Legal Services Corporation (1979-1981), and the American Indian Lawyer Training Program (1981-1983). Since 2006, he has been a Council Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities (IRR) and a member of the Tribal Courts Council of the ABA Judicial Division. Roy A. Hammer Liaison from ABA Center for Human Rights Boston, MA Roy A. Hammer is currently Of Counsel to Hemenway & Barnes LLP after 46 years of practice in corporate law, estate planning, and the administration of trusts and estates. He devoted a substantial portion of his professional time to fiduciary activities, both within the firm and as co-trustee with other financial institutions. Before his retirement as senior partner at the end of 2006, Roy was the lead counsel and trustee to many of the firm's wealthiest family clients, representing several generations of such families, and he originated many new trust clients for the firm. Roy has been deeply involved in pro bono legal activities throughout his career and has served in a wide variety of bar association and other professional offices at the local, state and national levels, including: President of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts 1970-1973, and recipient of the Alper Award in 1974; Member of the Boston Steering Committee of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 1974-1984, and member from 1975-1977 of Action Plan for Legal Services; President of the Massachusetts Bar Association 1978-1979, and recipient in 1985 of the MBA Gold Medal; Service on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association 1993-1996 and member of the ABA's House of Delegates since 1978; Service on the council of the ABA Fund for Justice and Education and past directorship of the American Judicature Society, from which he received a Special Merit Citation in 1984; and Service on the joint Board of the ALI/ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education. Pearl Kim Liaison from the National District Attorneys Association & Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association Media, PA Pearl Kim currently works as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the District Attorney, Delaware County, PA in the Special Victims and Domestic Violence Division. As a special victims unit prosecutor, Ms. Kim handles Protection From Abuse matters, child physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, and Internet Crimes Against Children cases. In an effort to more effectively reach out to underrepresented communities, she was designated the Asian Outreach Liaison and has been cross deputized as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, PA. Ms. Kim was appointed to serve on the Joint State Government Commission's Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking and to report back to the PA Senate any recommendations for changes in state law, policies, and procedures. She recently secured the first trafficking of persons conviction under Pennsylvania’s trafficking statute and was a faculty member for the 2012 Institute on the Prosecution of Human Trafficking. She has spoken at several national conferences on issues relating to human trafficking and sexual violence. In 2012, Governor Corbett appointed Pearl Kim to the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian American Affairs. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania, the Board of Directors for the Pearl S. Buck International, and is on the leadership board for the Villanova Law Minority Alumni Society. Ms. Kim obtained her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law where she was the recipient of the Villanova Achievement Scholarship, and received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. The Legal Intelligencer has recognized Ms. Kim as one of the 2011 Lawyers on the Fast Track, as one of 2011 Diverse Attorneys of the Year, and as one of the 2012 Women of the Year. Andrea Kramer Liaison from National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations Boston, MA Andrea Kramer is an experienced litigator who has represented businesses, hospitals, academic institutions, and individuals for nearly twenty years primarily in the areas of commercial disputes and employment law. She has also litigated trademark, copyright, and trade secret cases, property disputes, professional malpractice cases, earn-out cases, and product liability cases. As both an advisor and a litigator, Andrea has advised clients on dispute resolution and counseled clients through disputes without litigation. She also has counseled individuals in negotiating severance and employment agreements. Andrea’s clients appreciate her practical approach to resolving disputes and her business and financial acumen in addressing damages issues and possible resolutions. Andrea also has an active appellate practice. She recently represented a nonprofit corporation before the Massachusetts Appellate Court in an employment discrimination case, succeeding in having the Court reverse a $2.2 million lower court judgment against the defendant. She also authored an amicus brief in the Hancock school funding case then-pending before the Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of Massachusetts 2020, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and eleven other co-signers, and she has authored or participated in over a dozen appellate briefs on issues of importance to women and children in Massachusetts and federal appellate courts. Andrea is a member of HRW's Data Security Team, which was formed to develop a comprehensive approach to new data security laws, including programs for compliance, and she has spoken and trained on the subject and monitored and participated in relevant legislative activities. A leader in the law, Andrea is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of attorneys, judges, and law professors whose professional, public, and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession. She has also served for a decade as an adjunct professor at Brandeis University, where her courses have included ones on uses of scientific evidence in litigation and sex discrimination law. John A. Martin, Ph.D. Liaison from State Courts Collaborative Boulder, CO John A. Martin, Ph.D., is the Director of the recently established Human Trafficking and the State Courts Collaborative. For the past five years Dr. Martin has also directed the Center For Public Policy Studies, Immigration and the State Courts Initiative, which is supported by the State Justice Institute. He is recognized as an innovator in planning, management and institutional development for courts, justice, and human service organizations. Over the past 40 years, he has worked with courts, justice, and human service agencies of all types across the nation, conducting grant-funded research, providing technical assistance, and teaching. Topics addressed in programs and projects directed by Dr. Martin have included innovation and systems change, agency and inter-agency planning and management, organizational culture and change management, work process improvement, simplified litigation, alternative dispute resolution, technology applications, cross-cultural interaction, the impacts of immigration in the courts, Latino family violence, performance measurement, and executive-legislative-judicial relations. Dr. Martin is also on the Senior Faculty of the Institute For Court Management, has authored over seventy articles, monographs, and books about courts and justice systems, and has served on editorial boards for court practitioner-oriented publications. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Public Affairs of the University of Colorado. Selene Martin Liaison from LexisNexis Washington, DC Selene Martin assumed the position of Director, Corporate Responsibility for LexisNexis Legal & Professional in December, 2011. Most recently, Selene was the Director, Law School Outreach for LexisNexis. In this role, Selene was focused on applying the unique capabilities of LexisNexis to develop and maintain partnerships in law schools by creating programs that communicate the company’s commitment to social responsibility, specifically issues that advance rule of law. Prior to her law school role, Selene was the Director of LexisNexis Cares. In this global role, she focused on applying the unique capabilities of LexisNexis to improve the lives of others around the world. A key part of her work was to develop and support partnerships with customers, governments and NGOs to work collaboratively on two signature issues for LexisNexis: advancing the Rule of Law particularly around human trafficking and increasing the capacity for pro bono. Selene has more than 13 years of experience and has held key management positions within LexisNexis in corporate communications, marketing and human resources. Selene received a BS in Marketing from Wright State University. She served as co-chair of the LexisNexis Pro Bono initiative, is a founding member of the LexisNexis Women’s Connected Network, and currently serves as an observer on the drafting committee for the Uniform Law Commission’s Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking. Michael J. Navarre Liaison from ABA Section of Public Contract Law Washington, DC Michael J. Navarre is special counsel in the Washington office of Steptoe, where he is a member of the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on government contracts and complex commercial litigation. Mr. Navarre’s prior cases have included successful multi-million dollar claims against the US government before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and disputes between prime contractors and their subcontractors. He has also represented clients in bid protests before the Government Accountability Office, the FAA’s Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition (ODRA), and the Court of Federal Claims, including a protest of a multi-billion dollar contract award by the Department of Defense. He has also represented institutional and individual clients in numerous administrative actions by federal agencies in matters relating to contract claims, security clearances, personnel actions, and the Freedom of Information Act. He also advises clients regarding compliance with procurement statutes and regulations, including organizational conflicts of interest rules and contingency operations contract specific clauses. Mr. Navarre has represented clients in complex commercial contract disputes, professional malpractice cases, first-party property insurance claims, and multi-district antitrust cases. Mr. Navarre was also co-counsel for two government contractor employees that sought writs of habeas corpus challenging the US military’s constitutional power to try them by court-martial. Both cases ended with military officials abandoning court-martial efforts shortly after their petitions were filed. In addition to his litigation experience, Mr. Navarre has represented clients in internal corporate investigations and responding to both state and federal grand jury and civil investigative demands. These cases have included investigations of alleged government contractor personnel misconduct, government corruption, and tax fraud. Mr. Navarre is also recognized in various aspects of military law and frequently speaks on topics in the area. Prior to joining Steptoe, Mr. Navarre served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps for five years. During that time he served as a prosecutor, the sole attorney-advisor to the Commander of Regional Support Group, Norfolk, Virginia, and as an appellate criminal defense counsel. Krishna Patel Liaison from North American South Asian Bar Association Bridgeport, CT Krishna R. Patel serves as Deputy Chief of the National Security and Major Crimes Unit. From 2004 until 2011, Ms. Patel had been designated by the United States Attorney to coordinate efforts to combat human smuggling and human trafficking in the State of Connecticut and served as the Chair of the Connecticut Smuggling and Trafficking of Persons Investigative Task Force (STOP IT). Ms. Patel has also served as an ex-officio member of the Connecticut State Legislature working group on human trafficking. From 2006 until 2010, Ms. Patel also served as the Coordinator for Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative to combat a variety of crimes involving the exploitation of children. Most recently, in 2010, Ms. Patel began serving as the Coordinator for the criminal division’s Civil Rights program. Ms. Patel has prosecuted human trafficking cases here in the United States and also prosecuted cases involving American citizens who travel abroad to exploit children. Ms. Patel has provided training to foreign law enforcement in many countries on issues relating to human smuggling/trafficking, border security and child sex offenses. Ms. Patel has won many awards for prosecutions that she has handled and for her work to combat trafficking and child exploitation.
New York, Ms. Patel was associated with the firm of Winston & Strawn in New York where she worked on a variety of commercial litigation matters. As an associate at Winston & Strawn, Ms. Patel also did pro bono work for the Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights and the Open Society. From 1994 until 1996, Ms. Patel was admitted to the United States Attorney General’s Honor Program. She has also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alan H. Nevas (retired) of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Ms. Patel is a 1993 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law where she graduated with honors in international and foreign law and received her B.A. in 1990 from Rutgers University with honors. Directory: content -> dam -> aba -> administrative administrative -> 110 american bar association task force on the financing of legal education report to the house of delegates administrative -> Revised 102b resolution administrative -> American bar association coalition on racial and ethnic justice section of individual rights and responsibilities administrative -> Application for acquiescence in a major change administrative -> Keith M. Casto Managing Partner & General Counsel administrative -> Cercla divisibility and Allocation Issues Gail Wurtzler Davis Graham & Stubbs llp denver, co I. Divisibility administrative -> Kris Ohleth is the Director of Permitting for the Atlantic Wind Connection backbone transmission project administrative -> Of the house of delegates of the american bar association Download 82.99 Kb. Share with your friends:
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