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2012-2013 Board Chair, the Honorable Truman A. Morrison, III, has been a Senior Judge with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since 1999. He attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating in 1967 and 1970, respectively. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge John W. Reynolds in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Judge Morrison began work as a trial lawyer at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service in 1971. In 1975, he became head of the trial division and assumed supervision of 40 lawyers trying cases ranging from delinquency matters to first-degree murder cases. President Carter appointed Judge Morrison to the D.C. Superior Court in the summer of 1979. For the past 20 years, Judge Morrison has been very involved in judicial education. In addition to providing training sessions for judges on the Superior Court, Judge Morrison has taught trial advocacy at Catholic University and The George Washington University law schools. From time to time, he teaches a seminar on the “Craft of Judging” at the George Washington Law School. He has long been a faculty participant in the annual Harvard University Law School Trial Advocacy Program.
The Honorable Bruce Beaudin was a superior court judge in the District of Columbia from 1984 to 1994. He is currently a senior judge, on call, in the District and is an active consultant in jurisdictions exploring the development of specialty courts, such as drug treatment courts. Judge Beaudin was the director of the District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency for 16 years. The U.S. Department of Justice recognized it as an exemplary program and it continues to serve as a model for new program development and existing program enhancement across the country. Judge Beaudin has provided leadership and inspiration to pretrial practitioners for many years and NAPSA recognizes his lifetime contribution to pretrial services at the Annual Conference and Training Institute by presenting an award in his name to a dedicated line practitioner. Judge Beaudin has published extensively on various criminal justice processes, most notably pretrial and diversion practices. He acted as a consultant to the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Estonia in implementing a system of law for an emerging country.
Board Vice-Chair, The Honorable James G. Carr a graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School, is the chief judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, having been appointed as a district judge by President Clinton in 1994. Before then, he was a United States magistrate judge for that Court from 1979. From 1970-79 he was a professor of law at the University of Toledo College of Law. He has previously served as member of the Magistrate Judges Committee and the Criminal Law Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference, and as the chair of that Committee's Pretrial Services Subcommittee. He is the author of treatises on the Law of Electronic Surveillance and Ohio Juvenile Law, and other books and articles on criminal law and procedure and civil procedure. He has been a member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 2002. He has been a member of the Institute's Board since 1992.
John Gerold has been a senior vice-president and financial consultant for RBC Dain Rauscher since 2004. Mr. Gerold is also one of six members of RBC Dain Rauscher’s Corporate & Executive Services Group, a team dedicated to working with the unique needs of corporate executives and their businesses. John has been awarded membership in RBC Dain Rauscher Chairman’s Council since his tenure at RBC. From 1988 to 1993 John was a senior communications consultant for Bell Atlantic. He helped with the integration of Bell Atlantic and Northern Telecom then joined Bell Atlantic Meridian Systems after the integration of the two companies. Beginning in 1993, John joined Kidder Peabody, a GE company, as a financial consultant. When PaineWebber bought Kidder Peabody, John stayed on to become a senior vice-president of Investments. While at PaineWebber, John was a member of the PaineWebber Round Table, the Estate Planning Consulting Group and was the managed account coordinator for the Washington, DC office. In fall 2000, John became an executive director of investments at CIBC Oppenheimer. John was a member of the CIBC Round Table, the Wealth Management Panel, and of the Chairman’s Council. Additionally, John was one of 12 members of the CIBC National Advisory Council. John holds a bachelor’s degree in finance, with an emphasis on personal financial planning, from Old Dominion University. John serves as a consultant to a number of boards and nonprofits including Super Leaders in Washington D.C.
Dr. John Goldkamp is a professor at Temple University and the current chair of the Department of Criminal Justice. His research focuses broadly on discretion in criminal justice and innovation in the courts, with a special emphasis on treatment and alternatives to confinement. For a quarter of a century, his research focused on bail, pretrial release and detention, leading major bail reform experiments in Philadelphia and nationally, and resulted in three books and many articles, including "Two Classes of Accused", "Policy Guidelines for Bail: An Experiment in Court Reform" (with M. Gottfredson), and "Personal Liberty and Community Safety" (with M. Gottfredson, P. Jones and D. Weiland). Over the past decade some of his research has dealt with problem-solving courts beginning with the drug court movement. He conducted the first nationally sponsored evaluation of a major drug court (the nation’s first drug court in Miami) and authored a Department of Justice white paper describing the early drug court movement. Dr. Goldkamp until 2004 served as the reporter and wrote the commentary for the American Bar Association’s new Pretrial Release Standards, which were approved by the ABA House of Delegates in February 2002.
Robert J. Guttentag is a retired business executive. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1953 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1958 . He was a member of the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1956. He was an executive vice-president at WJ Young Machinery Company, Inc., from1959 to1967 and division manager for Engineering Services with the Gillette Company from 1967 to 1992. Robert has been a board member for the Pretrial Justice Institute and its predecessor organization since 1976 (chair 1994-96), a board member of the Justice Resource Institute since 1976 (currently vice chair), a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct since 1991 (currently chair), and a board member of The Key Program Inc. since 2000. He was a member of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Committee from 1993 through 2000 and a member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers from 1993 through 2004. Other nonprofit activities include or have included The Massachusetts Public Health Council, Boston Police Foundation, Women's Technical Institute, and the Massachusetts Governor's Management Task Force.
Cynthia Jones is an associate law professor at the Washington College of Law. She was hired as a full-time professor in 2004, and received tenure in 2010. She teaches courses in Evidence, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and a seminar on "Race, Crime and Politics". Recently, Professor Jones received the American University 2011 University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Professor Jones was also recognized as one of the 2011 LexisNexis Technology Leaders in the Classroom for her innovative and creative use of film and other electronic media in her classes. Professor Jones is the writer and executive producer of "Fight Evidence with Evidence," an animated short film on the Federal Rules of Evidence for which she was awarded the 2009 Teaching with Technology Award from the American University Center for Teaching Excellence. Professor Jones currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and the Director of the American Bar Association Racial Justice Improvement Project, a program designed to implement policy reforms to remedy racial disparities in the criminal justice system. She researches, writes and lectures across the country on the reforms needed to prevent wrongful convictions and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. Upon graduating from the Washington College of Law, Professor Jones served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank E. Schwelb of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an associate at the law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin before working as a public defender for five years. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia in 2000, Professor Jones was the Deputy Director of the D.C. Pretrial Services Agency.
Doug Katz is a partner with Wasserman/Katz, a management consulting firm founded in Washington, D.C., with offices currently in San Diego and Houston. For the past 30 years, the firm has been advising managers on the most intelligent ways to navigate their relationships with employees. Wasserman/Katz furnishes services to a wide array of industries across the country, from biomedical research to ship building, alternative energy exploration to public transit, academia to waste management and hospital administration to commercial sales. In addition to his direct consulting work, Mr. Katz delivers presentations and prepares client advisories on a full range of contemporary management topics. He is often retained to facilitate meetings and conferences addressing especially sensitive or controversial issues affecting a business or community. He has been involved in a 10-year study of national labor and employment trends to help his clients prepare for emerging workforce and workplace challenges. He has also been a guest instructor on Business Ethics in the University of Maryland’s Honors Program since 2002 and has served on the Board of Directors of a software development firm and an experimental theater company. Mr. Katz earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from The American University in Washington, D.C. He was awarded an NIMH Research Assistantship and an NIMH Clinical Training Fellowship. Upon graduation, he completed a clinical internship, served as an editorial consultant with a publisher of academic texts and soon after co-founded Wasserman/Katz.
Peter Kiers is serving his second term as president of the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA). Mr. Kiers has served on the NAPSA Board in various capacities for the last decade. He is also the Chairman of the Education Committee. Mr. Kiers is the Director of Operations for the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, the pretrial agency for the five boroughs of New York City. The Agency is a private, non-profit corporation providing pretrial services in New York City’s Criminal Courts. He also serves on the board of the New York State Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NYAPSA), and is a past president of that association. He is a member of the NAPSA Pretrial Standards Committee that completed the present edition of the NAPSA Pretrial Release Standards, and was instrumental in getting the State of New York to review and approve standards for pretrial practice in New York. He has served on the New York County Lawyers’ Association Criminal Courts Task Force and sub-committees investigating issues concerning arraignment and pretrial release, and interagency cooperation. Mr. Kiers has two masters’ degrees – one in theology and one in labor and industrial relations. Prior to entering pretrial, Mr. Kiers served as the Director of Social Services for the NYC Department of Corrections.
Dr. Cynthia Lum is a professor at George Mason University. Her research is primarily in the area of policing. Dr. Lum's works in this area have included evaluations of policing interventions for crime prevention effectiveness, developing research to practice translation tools for law enforcement, examining place-based determinates of street-level police decision making, understanding counterterrorism efforts by state and local law enforcement, and examining the relationship between drugs and violence. With Christopher Koper (Police Executive Research Forum) and Cody Telep (George Mason University), she has developed the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a translation tool designed for police practitioners to better institutionalize and utilize research on "what works" in policing into their strategic and tactical portfolio. For her work on the influence of race, ethnicity and immigration on police decision making, she was awarded the National Institute of Justice W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship in 2007. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, and co-directs its evidence-based policing research program at George Mason University.
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