######## Biographical Sketches

**Kenneth Arnold** is currently the Senior Director of Intervention
Services for River Region Human Services in Jacksonville, Fl. The
programs under his supervision are Adult, Juvenile and Family Dependency
Courts, TASC program, Next Step (DUI Program), Elderly Services, Women's
Services, and Family Intervention Services. He has worked for over 10
years in the Adult Drug Court, beginning as a counselor, and now in
supervision. He is a consultant/team member for the Adult Drug Court in
neighboring Clay County. He is a Certified Addictions Professional in
the state of Florida and is a US D.O.T. Substance Abuse Professional. He
received his Bachelor's degree in Health Care Administration from
Southern Illinois University and his MBA from Webster University. He has
over 12 years in the substance abuse field and has served as faculty for
DCPI for the past 2 years.

**HON. Charles Apotheker** was an Assistant County Attorney for Rockland
County, NY from 1974 to 2003 where he was Counsel to the Board of Ethics
and the Budget & Finance Committee among other duties. He successfully
obtained Certiorari in the case of [Finkle v. Branti]{.underline}, a
landmark US Supreme Court case involving political firings and has
argued cases before the Appellate Division's Second and Third
Departments, the New York State Court of Appeals, and the US District
Court.

Judge Apotheker was elected Town Justice of the Town of Haverstraw in
November 1979, was re-elected in a Write-in in 1983, and has been
re-elected five times since then. He has authored and had published
numerous decisions including the decision in the case of [Doe v.
Roe]{.underline}, 598 N.Y.S. 2d 678, which involved the issue of
negligent transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, which decision
has been cited in numerous law review articles and legal periodicals.

Judge Apotheker was appointed as Rockland County's Drug Court Judge in
March, 2000 and served in that capacity until February 28, 2002, when
Rockland\'s Drug Court was transferred to the Rockland County Court. In
October, 2000 he completed Drug Court Judicial Training at the National
Judicial College and has attended additional Drug Court related seminars
at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals' conventions in
June 2000 and June 2001. Judge Apotheker was a member of the faculty for
the New York State Unified Court System's Education & Training seminars
for Drug Court professionals in August 2001 and January 2002. At those
times, Judge Apotheker was not only a member of various panels but
mentored Drug Court teams starting up Drug Courts in New York. In
addition, Judge Apotheker led a panel discussion at the New York State
Association of Drug Court Professionals annual convention held in March
2002.

In December, 2000, the suburban edition of the New York Law Journal,
while reporting on the success of Rockland's Drug Court, quoted Judge
Apotheker as describing himself as a "Social Worker with a two by four".
Judge Apotheker's Drug Court has been observed by numerous individuals
involved in the Drug Court field and has been recognized as a model for
those seeking to institute Drug Courts throughout the Hudson Valley.

Judge Apotheker has also been the president of the Rockland County
Magistrates Association and is currently a member of the Rockland County
Bar Association's Grievance Committee. He also serves as Vice-Chairman
of Hospice of Rockland. He has been a resident of Rockland County since
1972 and resides in Pomona with his wife Francine and has two adult
children.

**HON. MARIE A. BACA** is a District Court Judge in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Judge Baca graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1974
with a B.U.S. degree. Judge Baca received her law degree from the
University of New Mexico School of Law in 1980. She was an attorney at
the Office of the Public Defender handling both misdemeanor and felony
cases. She later served as District Defender for the Office of the
Bernalillo County Public Defenders Office. Judge Baca was a Staff
Attorney with the Office of General Counsel prior to going into General
Private Practice. Judge Baca served as a guardian ad litem in child
abuse/neglect cases, and as a hearing officer in Mental Health cases.
Judge Baca was in private practice until she was elected to the
Metropolitan Court Bench in 1988. Judge Baca presided over the
Metropolitan Court DWI/Drug Court for four years. Judge Baca is a member
of the Hispanic Bar Association, New Mexico State Bar Association,
Judicial Legal Advisory Committee, and member of the Governor's Juvenile
Justice Advisory Committee. Judge Baca is assigned to the Children's
Court Division and presides over the Juvenile Drug Court.

**HON. NELSON BAILEY** is a county judge in Palm Beach County, Florida
and handles first appearances and arraignments on a full-time basis in a
courtroom located inside the county jail. He also has presided over Palm
Beach County's new felony adult drug court since November, 2000. Judge
Bailey is a graduate of Florida State University (Bachelor of Arts,
1966) and of the Charter Class of the Florida State University College
of Law (Juris Doctor, 1969). Prior to becoming a judge, he was an
attorney with the Florida Department of Agriculture (1969‑70), an
assistant attorney general of Florida (1970‑1973) and a criminal defense
lawyer in private practice in West Palm Beach for 22 years (1973‑1995).

**SERGEANT DANIEL E. BALL's** law enforcement history spans over 17
years. Beginning as a Corrections Officer, he quickly expanded into
other areas that included navigation (boat) patrol and canine (K-9)
training. In 1992, Sergeant Ball was hired at the Canandaigua Police
Department in New York State where he remains employed today. During his
career at the Canandaigua Police Department, Dan spearheaded a
nationally recognized after-school juvenile delinquency prevention
program- formerly known as the Phoenix Program. Dan remained at the helm
of this program for five and one half years, until moving in to the area
of Special Services, where he held the position of Investigator for two
years. On Valentine's Day 2003, Daniel was promoted to the position of
Sergeant. Daniel was attracted to the profession because his grand
father was an Attica State Prison Guard, his father served as the Chief
of Police for the Titusville Florida Police Department from 1978 to 1992
and because his brother was a Homicide Investigator for the Brevard
County Sheriff's Department in the state of Florida. Dan currently has
his Associates in Criminal Justice and is working part/time towards his
Bachelors in Public Administration with a minor in Psychology.

In April 2000, Dan was appointed to the position of Liaison for The
Finger Lakes Drug Court and The Ontario County Felony Drug Court. He has
traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and
Buffalo, New York with the teams where they received extensive training
on how to implement their Drug Court in the City of Canandaigua, New
York. As the Liaison, Sergeant Ball currently provides communication and
valuable training to his fellow officers, while also serving in the
staffing of both drug courts. Using money obtained from the "Stop DWI
Program", Dan implemented a program that allows members of his
department to sign up for overtime so officers can go out in to the
community with drug court team members for purposes of random drug
testing of the drug court participants. Sergeant Ball is involved in
every aspect of the Drug Court process, including staffing active cases,
and gathering community resources to aid in the graduated sanction most
Drug Court participants face at some point during their sentence.
Sergeant Ball serves as Faculty for the New York State Drug Court
Institute and as a Consultant for The National Association of Drug Court
Professionals. Sergeant Ball possesses a wealth of knowledge and a
diverse background along with the concept of understanding the reality
of law enforcement, and its valuable role in the Drug Court process.

**SONYA L. BARBIER** is the Juvenile Drug Court Coordinator for the
15^th^ Judicial District Court-HALT Program. Previously, she worked as
the Juvenile Drug Court Program Director for the Iberia Parish Juvenile
Drug Court, and as a counselor for the Iberia Parish Adult Drug Court.
She also has experience in program development and implementation for
outpatient substance abuse, a halfway house, and vocational
rehabilitation programs. She received a Masters of Arts Degree in 1997
at Stephen F. Austin State University in Community Counseling and
Bachelors Degree from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. At the
state level, Ms. Barbier serves on the Board of Directors for the
Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professions, State Conference
Planning Committee, Chairman of the LADCP Public Relations Committee,
LADCP Juvenile Drug Court Standards Committee, State Management
Information Systems Development Committee, and numerous other planning
and review committees. Nationally, Ms. Barbier is a faculty member for
the National Drug Court Institute, served on the National Drug Court
Conference Planning Committee, and as a reviewer of the national key
components of juvenile drug courts, *Juvenile Drug Courts: Strategies in
Practice.*

**KAREN BARNES** is an Adult Probation Officer with the Maricopa County
Probation Department in Phoenix, Arizona and the Acting Supervisor for
their DUI Court program. She serves as the intake coordinator for new
cases and facilitates cognitive intervention classes for high-risk DUI
Court clients. In this capacity, Ms. Barnes also conducts DUI courts
orientation for new hires and court staff and serves as the program
liaison to treatment providers and to the pre-sentence division. Prior
to joining the Adult Probation Department, she worked as a mobile crisis
counselor in Maricopa County, and as a case manager with the seriously
mentally ill. Ms. Barnes received a Bachelor of Social Work degree from
South West Texas State University.

**Judge Michael J. Barrasse** is a judge in the 45th Judicial District
of the Court of Common Pleas in Scranton Pennsylvania. Prior to taking
the bench Judge Barrasse was elected three terms District Attorney for
Lackawanna County. He previously served as a Special Assistant U.S.
Attorney, Special Attorney General for the Commonwealth of PA. and
senior trial Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia.

Judge Barrasse was responsible for the opening the Children's Advocacy
Center, which provides assistance for abused children. He received his
B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Scranton and his J.D.
from Dickinson School of Law. Judge Barrasse has been appointed to the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board hearing panel, the
National District Attorneys Association Board of Directors and the
technical working group of the U.S. Department of Justice.

He presently serves as chairperson for the Mental Health panel for the
PA Joint State Commission Advisory Committee on Geriatric and Seriously
Ill Inmates. He is President, Pennsylvania Drug Court Professionals;
Faculty of the National Drug Court Institute; Chairman, Child Advocacy
Center; a member of the Board of Directors of the Drug and Alcohol
Treatment Center. His present judicial responsibilities include
Administration of the Criminal list and the handling of Treatment Courts
(Adult, Juvenile, Family, D.U.I.) He joined the National Judicial
College faculty in 2003.

**Gray Barton** is the Executive Director for Maryland's Drug Treatment
Court Commission in Annapolis, Maryland. In this position he oversees
the planning and administration of drug courts for the Maryland
Judiciary. Mr. Barton began counseling emotionally disturbed adolescent
males at New Dominion Wilderness Program in Cumberland, MD. He later
took an Addictions Specialist position with the State of Maryland,
diagnosing and treating adolescent males with chemical dependency
issues. He held the Treatment Supervisor position at The Abraxas
Foundation of Ohio before becoming the Treatment Court Coordinator for
the Mansfield Municipal Court and assisted the court in developing one
of the first municipal drug courts in the State of Ohio. Then as the
Treatment Coordinator of the Richland County Drug Court, Mr. Barton was
involved in the implementation and continuation of regional municipal
and common pleas drug courts in several counties, assisting in the
planning and implementation of drug court programs in these
jurisdictions.

**Hon. Joel Benard Bennett** was born in Marshall, Texas. He received
his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1968 and his MBA in 1970
from the University of North Texas in Denton. After earning his degrees
from North Texas, Judge Bennett entered the United States Air Force and
served from 1971 to 1974 as an officer. After receiving his Doctorate of
Jurisprudence from the University of Texas Law School in 1977 and
admission to the state Bar of Texas the same year, Mr. Bennett became an
Assistant County Attorney for Travis County. In 1980 he founded his law
firm, Joel B. Bennett, P.C. and continues to serve the community of
Austin as a private attorney. Bennett has also served as the Travis
County Drug Court Judge since the inception of the program in 1993.

As President of the Texas Association of Drug Court Professionals and
Travis County Drug Court Judge, Bennett is a powerful force in the
growth and development of the Drug Court movement in Texas and across
the nation. Judge Bennett was a member of the first Board of Directors
of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals; he is currently
acting as treasurer for the Austin Black Lawyers Association and the
Thurgood Marshall Action Coalition; and he is a member of the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, the Austin Chamber of Commerce, the
National and Travis County Bar Associations, the College of the State
Bar of Texas.

Judge Bennett is the proud father of two successful children whose lives
are full of adventure. His daughter, Jolyn R. Bennett, was born in
Wichita Falls, Texas and is currently pursuing a career on the stage and
screen in New York. His younger son, Benard M. Bennett, was born in
Austin and is an international business major at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas.

In addition to his personal and professional obligations, Judge Bennett
enjoys swing and salsa dancing, fishing exercising, and spending time
with his extended family in Marshall.

**W. Chester Bell, MPA, CCJAP** is Executive Vice President at the
Stewart-Marchman Center for Chemical Independence, Daytona Beach,
Florida. Stewart-Marchman provides treatment services for two adult drug
courts as well as one juvenile and one family drug court in Central
Florida. Mr. Bell is a founding board member of the Florida Association
of Drug Court Professionals and current President of the Florida Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Association. He is also a past President of Florida's
Certification Board of Addictions Professionals, where he was
instrumental in the development of that organization's criminal
justice/addiction professional credential. He has consulted extensively
around the country over the past two decades as a trainer in the
implementation of Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC)
and Drug Court programs. Mr. Bell received his undergraduate degree in
social studies education from Miami University and Masters degree in
Public Administration from the University of Central Florida.

**DANIEL BLACKWOOD, MA, LPCC, NCCGTP, ABCCG** is a Master's level
counselor and clinical supervisor who practices in Albuquerque, New
Mexico for the past fifteen years: In 2001 Mr. Blackwood formed The
Evolution Group, the Bernalillo County Metropolitan DWI/Drug Court
Treatment Program, an outpatient intensive treatment program for
chemically dependent individuals, with multiple offenses. In 1998, Mr.
Blackwood, co-founded the New Mexico Council on Problem Gambling, a
local, non-profit organization committed to providing 24-hour crisis
assistance and referrals to compulsive gamblers and their family
members. In years past, Mr. Blackwood has served as Chairman of the
Bernalillo County Domestic Violence Coalition. He served from 1990 to
1999 as the Clinical Director for Conflict Management, Inc., a firm that
specializes in treating chemically dependent individuals and families
who have domestic violence issues. Mr. Blackwood has given interviews to
the Albuquerque Journal, KOAT TV 7, KNME Channel 5, KOB-TV4, TV-13, and
National Public Radio (NPR), on the topics of chemical dependency
treatment, domestic violence, violent crime, road rage, violence in the
workplace, compulsive gambling, and women who "escape"gamble
compulsively in New Mexico.

**HON. PATRICK BOWLER** is a Judge with the 61^st^ District Court in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was elected in 1984, and served as Chief
Judge for ten years.

Judge Bowler was an honors graduate of Michigan State University in
1968, and an honors graduate of the Detroit College of Law in 1975. From
1975-1985, Judge Bowler was the Director/Attorney of the Kent County
Office of the Defender. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at MSU-DCL
where he teaches Criminal Procedure. He also served as an Adjunct
Professor of Criminal Law at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and is a
faculty member of the Michigan Judicial Institute.

Judge Bowler was President of the Michigan District Judges Association
in 1994. He served on the Executive Board of the Judicial Conference
Section of the Michigan State Bar and was elected Chairperson Committee
for four years. Judge Bowler has served as Co-Chair of the Grand Rapids
Bar Association's Legal Assistance Center Committee. Judge Bowler was
elected President of the Grand Rapids Bar Association for 2002-2003.

In 1999, Judge Bowler instituted a Drug Treatment Court Program for
felons and misdemeanants for Kent County, Michigan. He has served as the
Drug Treatment Court Judge for five years. He also founded a Sobriety
Court Program directed at habitual drunk drivers. He is the Sobriety
Court Judge for individuals convicted of both misdemeanor and felony
drunk driving offenses. Judge Bowler serves on the Board of Directors of
Project Rehab, a residential and outpatient drug rehabilitation program
in Grand Rapids. In 2002, Judge Bowler was elected President of the
Michigan Association of Drug Court Professionals and continues to serve
in that capacity.

**Suzette E. Brann** is the President of Unlimited Horizons, LLC, a
criminal justice consulting firm that specializes in developing
specialty court programs for addicted offenders (with an emphasis on
culturally relevant treatment designs) both here, in the United States
and in the Caribbean. In addition, Ms. Brann has presented at several
national and international forums on issues ranging from applying
therapeutic jurisprudence in the new millennium and developing
restorative justice programs that work to addressing cultural diversity
and quality assurance in treatment and criminal justice systems. Prior
to this, she was a Senior Program Manager at the Justice Management
Institute's Washington, D.C. Office working as the Project Director on
the Drug Court's Programs Office Planning Grant. In that capacity, she
provided technical assistance to various jurisdictions nationwide on
effective drug court implementation, treatment program design and
quality assurance, federal confidentiality regulations in treatment and
cultural diversity. Prior to her employment with the Justice Management
Institute, Ms. Brann worked as the Program Manager of the Superior Court
Drug Intervention Program in Washington, D.C. for 5 years. Her program
was recognized for its innovation in court services by the Center for
Court Excellence when it received the Justice Potter award in May 2000.
Ms. Brann received both her Bachelor of Business Administration degree
in Marketing and her Master in Business Administration degree in
Business Management from Howard University and has almost completed her
Juris Doctor degree specializing Intellectual Property and Corporate Law
at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Additionally, Ms. Brann is
a member of the American Counseling Association, the National
Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, the National Association of
Black MBAs, WHO's WHO in Professional Management and WHO's WHO in
Business.

**WILLIAM BROWNSBERGER** is a defense attorney and formerly was a
Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in Narcotics and Special
Investigations. He now focuses on representation of indigent criminal
defendants. He has served as defense attorney in the drug court in the
Dorchester District Court since March of 2002 and also has practiced in
the Brighton Drug Court. Both drug courts are in Suffolk County,
Massachusetts. Mr. Brownsberger is also a scholar and author on issues
of drug policy and substance abuse. He is Associate Director for Public
Policy of the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School. He is a
past chair of Harvard's interdisciplinary Working Group on Drugs and
Addictions. He serves as senior criminal justice advisor to Join
Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. He
graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a concentration in
Mathematics and graduated cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

**KATHY CANTELLA** has been a deputy public defender in Los Angeles
County since 1986 and joined the Drug Court team in 1993. Ms. Cantella
has a background in nursing. She worked as a registered nurse in
pediatric medicine for 14 years. Recently Ms. Cantella has been assigned
to the Sentenced Offenders Drug Court program (S.O.D.C.) which is a
relatively new drug court in Los Angeles County. She is currently a
member of the Board of Directors of California Association of Drug Court
Professionals. Additionally, during the last four years she has
participated as a faculty member for the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD)
seminar at the California Center for Judicial Education and Research
(CJER) conference last year. This year Ms. Cantella took part in the
Justice Management Institute (JMI) *Conference on Drug Management and
Treatment Intervention* as a facilitator. Ms. Cantella has also attended
NADCP's National Conference each year and has been a facilitator during
the "defense attorney" break out sessions. In 1998 and in 1999, she
participated with NDCI in the creation of a curriculum for "drug court
for public defenders," and taught the curriculum at a three day seminar
in Williamsburg, Virginia. She has also been part of NDCI's faculty now
for two years. In 2001, she was a member of the Los Angeles County task
force that implemented Proposition 36 (California's Drug Treatment
Reform Initiative).

**CYNTHIA CAPORIZZO** is the Director, Policy and Planning for Mayor
Willie L. Brown Jr.'s Criminal Justice Council for the City and County
of San Francisco. In this position, Ms. Caporizzo develops and directs
policy on crime reduction strategies and criminal justice programs, such
as community policing, alternative sentencing and diversion programs,
restorative justice, public/private partnerships, dealing with mentally
ill in the criminal justice system and crime and violence prevention and
intervention. She advises and works closely with the agencies within the
San Francisco criminal justice system, pre-trial diversion services, the
county's social service and public health departments, the unified
school district, community-based organizations and advocacy groups on
the City's priorities and strategies.

She has specific policy development and supervision responsibility over
several citywide projects: the Mayor's Crime Summit, the Mayor's Gun
Violence Initiative, Community Court, Adult and Juvenile Drug Court, the
Anti-Drug Initiative and the County's Mentally Ill Offender Program. Ms.
Caporizzo was the Mayor's representative on the County's Proposition 36
(the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000) Implementation
Steering Committee and the co-chair of the County's Proposition 36
Treatment Subcommittee. Ms. Caporizzo was the first Adult Drug Court
Project Director for the City and County of San Francisco.

Prior to her positions in San Francisco, Ms. Caporizzo was the Deputy
Director of the Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison Office for
the U.S. Department of Justice. Her duties focused primarily on the
passage and implementation of the Omnibus Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994, also know as the "Crime Bill." With the
inception of the Office of Community Policing Services (COPS), Ms.
Caporizzo was asked to become an Assistant Director for the program and
the Director of the Intergovernmental and Public Liaison Division. In
that capacity, she was responsible for the implementation and management
of the program in relation to local, county and state governments and
related national organizations and criminal justice organizations. In
this position, she also worked on community government and other
criminal justice issues and was a member of the four-person strategic
planning team for the agency.

Ms. Caporizzo has developed curriculum used in national practitioner
trainings and workshops. She has presented both locally and nationally
on drug court group dynamics, alternative sentencing and diversion
program management and policy development, and the development of
effective linkages and improved communication between the treatment
community and the criminal justice system.

Ms. Caporizzo has a B.A. in Politics and a J.D and is a member of the
District of Columbia Bar.

**JOSEPH CARLONI** is Program Administrator with Pathway, a unit of
Lakeview Center, Inc., Pensacola, Florida, and serves as the Director of
Adult and Family Drug Court Treatment Programs for Escambia, Santa Rosa
and Okaloosa Counties. Mr. Carloni has over ten year experience with
Drug Courts and has been in the field of substance abuse therapy for
over twenty-five years. He served on the Treatment-Based Drug Court
Steering Committee for the Supreme Court of Florida and contributed to
the development of \"Florida\'s Treatment-Based Drug Courts\...a Guide\"
and \"Guidelines for Drug Courts On Screening And Assessment" part of
the Drug Courts Resource Series for the Drug Courts Program Office,
Office of Justice Programs. Mr. Carloni holds a BA in Social-psychology,
from Florida Atlantic University and a Masters of Science in Health Care
Management, from Troy State University. In addition, Mr. Carloni is a
certified Total Quality Management Instructor and served as a consultant
for the Drug Courts Program Office and American University/Technical
Assistance Project. Mr. Carloni is a member of the National Association
of Drug Court Professionals.

**HON. CHRISTINE CARPENTER** is Associate Circuit Judge for the
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri, which includes Boone and
Callaway Counties in central Missouri. She is a 1980 graduate of the
University of Missouri School of Law and was appointed to the bench in
1999. Prior to her appointment, she practiced law as a trial attorney,
limiting her practice to criminal defense and family law. She began her
legal career as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and also served as an
Assistant Public Defender before moving to the private practice of law.
Judge Carpenter completed the NDCI Comprehensive Drug Court Judicial
Training in Williamsburg, VA in 2000. She currently presides over two
Adult Drug Courts and one Juvenile Drug Court. The largest Drug Court in
her jurisdiction is the Boone County Adult Drug Court, which includes
both a diversion model and a re-entry court. The re-entry court accepts
felony defendants who have been placed on probation after 120 days of
incarceration during which they received treatment.

**ROD CASEY** is a 15 year veteran of the San Diego Police Department.
He is currently assigned as drug court liaison officer to The San Diego
Superior Court, Drug Court program. Rod received his B.A. degree from
Fairmont State (W.V.) He has worked Patrol, Gangs, Neighborhood Policing
and Narcotics. Rod has received numerous awards and letters of
recognition, including a U.S. Congressional award dealing with
Neighborhood Policing. Rod has served on several advisory boards dealing
with drug courts. He serves on two drug court steering committees.

Rod has written and evaluated numerous Federal Grants regarding drug
courts. He often lectures at drug court conferences and was instrumental
in developing San Diego Superior Court, Drug Court program into a
recognized mentor court. He has assisted numerous law enforcement
agencies in developing their own linkages with drug courts. For the past
five years, Rod has been a liaison officer out of the department's
Narcotic Section to both the Adult and Juvenile Drug Court programs.

**Jim chase** is a Senior Assistant Public Defender in New Haven,
Connecticut. He was one of the founders of the New Haven Drug Court,
Connecticut's first. Mr. Chase participated in the development of NDCI's
curricula for both Public Defender and Treatment training. For some
years, he has served as a facilitator, moderator and presenter at NADCP
national conferences, and is a regular faculty member for the trainings.
He has performed similar functions for the Justice Management Institute
and National Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Chase earned his B.A. in
History from Quinnipiac College. He completed a graduate certificate
program in International Business, which he later taught at Quinnipiac.

**Deborah Cima** has been working with San Bernardino Superior Court as
the Drug Court Administrator since 1997. Previously she was a contract
monitor with the county Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Since 1997
she has brought seven teams through training programs and has
implemented eight drug courts. Additionally she is responsible for the
oversight of the Mental Health Court and is presently working on
implementing a dependency drug court. Ms. Cima has written and received
grand funding from the Department of Justice, Drug Courts Program
Office, AOC grants and several state grants to support the drug court
programs. Presently she is Chair of the California Coordinators working
group consisting of approximately 80 coordinators who meet quarterly to
exchange information, discuss problems and issues, and support one
another with funding and policy changes at national, state and local
levels. She teaches the Addiction Severity Index at the local community
college and has been a facilitator with NADCP four years.

**CHRIS CLAUSI** is a sergeant with the Franklin Police Department. In
his fifteen years with the department he has been assigned and tasked
with creating various teams committee to decreasing crime and increasing
the quality of life for the citizens of Franklin. He served for three
years as a consultant with Community Research Associates in which he
helped law enforcement agencies all over the country implement police
mountain-bike units and trained officers how to patrol on a mountain
bike effectively.

In the fall of 2002, Tennessee Circuit Court Judges' Easter and Harris
introduced Mr. Clausi to their vision of what has become the 21^st^
Judicial District Drug Court. He is a member of the steering committee
and the drug court team. In his capacity as a law enforcement
professional, he regularly interacts with the drug court participants to
ensure their success. Mr. Clausi holds an Associates degree in
Leadership and plans to complete his current work on a Bachelor of
Science in Management and Ethics. He is the ethics instructor for the
Franklin Police Department and a graduate of the Southern Police
Institute 102^nd^ Administrative Officers Course.

**Hon. Virginia L. Cochran** is a Judge in the General District Court in
the City of Virginia Beach. She has held this position since July 1,
1988. Prior to becoming a judge she worked for 15 years as a criminal
defense attorney both in private practice and with the Public Defender's
Office. In November, 1997 she began the first misdemeanor drug court in
the State of Virginia, targeting second or subsequent offense drunk
drivers. She has attended the National Drug Court Institute Training for
Judges, the National Drug Court Institute Adult Drug Court Planning,
Skills - Based, and Operational workshops, the National Judicial
College's course on "Practical Aspects of Substance Abuse", and has been
selected as a faculty member for the N.D.C.I. In 1999, in recognition of
the establishment of the DUI/Drug Court, Judge Cochran received the
Governor's Transportation Safety Award. Judge Cochran received her B.A.
in political science from Wittenberg University and her law degree from
the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William & Mary.

**HON. IRVIN G. CONDON** is Judge of Probate, Charleston County, having
previously been a shareholder in the law firm of Rosen, Rosen & Hagood,
P.A., in Charleston. Judge Condon was elected Probate Judge in November
of 1994 and reelected in 1998. He received his B.S. degree in
Accounting, Magna Cum Laude, from Clemson University and his J.D. degree
from the University of South Carolina. Judge Condon is a Certified
Public Accountant and worked for Price Waterhouse for three years before
going to law school. He is a member of the Charleston County Bar
Association, the South Carolina Bar, the American Bar Association, the
South Carolina Association of Probate Judges, the National College of
Probate Judges, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and South
Carolina Association of Drug Court Professionals. Judge Condon is past
President of the South Carolina Association of Probate Judges and is
currently Vice President of the South Carolina Association of Drug Court
Professionals. Judge Condon is also leading the planning team for the
Charleston County Mental Health Court.

**jean costa** has been an Assistant Public Defender for the Office of
the Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, since 1992. Initially
assigned to a Felony Trial division, she joined the Fort Lauderdale Drug
Court Team in 1998. She has been involved with the expansion of drug
court and sits on the Comprehensive Circuit Crime Reduction Proposal
committee. and is an active participant on the Re-entry Court
development team.

Ms. Costa graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton
and received her law degree from Nova Southeastern Law Center. Prior to
receiving her law degree, Ms. Costa\'s background was in
medical/clinical social work. She is active in community organizations
and currently serves as the President of The Autism Society of America,
Broward County Chapter.

**Chris Crain** is the Administrative Analyst for the Department of
Mental Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Services. Initially hired in
1990 as the Support Service Analyst for the Division and appointed in
1999 as the Drug Court Coordinator to assist in the planning and
development of the Adult Drug Court Program and the planning and
development of the Juvenile Drug Court Program in 2000. Ms. Crain has
overseen the implementation and expansion of both programs, and
continues to serve as Coordinator. In the Spring of 2000, Ms. Crain
along with six other coordinators from California developed the
California Drug Court Coordinators Work Group where Ms. Crain served for
one and one half years as the Work Groups Chairperson which currently
has over 50 members. She has 17 years experience in human services
management and administration. Ms. Crain holds a BA in Psychology from
California State University at Stanislaus where she graduated Summa Cum
Laude, first in the class.

**HON. JOHN C. CREUZOT** is Judge of Criminal District Court No. 4,
Dallas County. He has served as judge of Dallas Initiative for Diversion
and Expedited Rehabilitation and Treatment (DIVERT) Court program. He
provides judicial supervision to the DIVERT Court. He is Chairman of the
DIVERT Advisory Board, consisting of county judicial and administrative
personnel, representatives from law enforcement, treatment, health care,
social services, and public policy makers. He is a graduate of Southern
Methodist University School of Law. Prior to his current position, he
served in private practice and as chief felony prosecutor for the Dallas
County District Attorney's Office. He is a member of NADCP, and serves
as Legislative Liaison for the Texas Association of Drug Court
Professionals. Judge Creuzot is a member of the American, Texas and
Dallas Bar Associations; a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation; and
served on the Southern Methodist University Law School Executive Board.
He has served on numerous boards and committees. He is currently on the
University of North Texas' President's Counsel.

**JORGE CUELLAR** is currently an adult probation officer with the Bexar
County Community Supervision and Corrections Department in San Antonio,
TX. Mr. Cuellar is a licensed chemical dependency counselor with the
Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, a certified Criminal Justice
Specialist, a Master Addiction Counselor, with the National Association
of Forensic Counselors, and a License Social Work Associate in the state
of Texas. He has worked in the entire spectrum of Chemical Dependency
treatment, from intervention, treatment, to after care. He has worked in
the field of chemical dependency, mental health and criminal justice
from counselor to program director, for over 25 years, and has worked
for the past three years in a Drug Court. Mr. Cuellar is currently
working on establishing a new Felony Drug Court. He has a Doctor of
Ministry in Pastoral Counseling.

**JOAN F. DAWSON** is a Deputy City Attorney with the City of San Diego.
She is Head Deputy of the City Attorney's Neighborhood Prosecution Unit,
a team of six prosecutors that works in partnership with the San Diego
Police Department, other agencies, and the community to aggressively and
creatively combat crimes that impact quality of life. These crimes
include under the influence of or possession of narcotics, drunk in
public and other alcohol offenses, prostitution, graffiti, disturbing
the peace, and illegal street racing.

Ms. Dawson was the first full-time prosecutor in San Diego's Central
Division Drug Court. She worked as the Drug Court prosecutor, handling
both misdemeanor and felony cases from 1997 to 1999. She presently
supervises the City Attorney's involvement in San Diego Drug Court and
Proposition 36 Court. She also worked on the national training
curriculum for prosecutors developed by the National Drug Court
Institute.

Ms. Dawson has been instrumental in the development of problem-solving
projects and community courts in San Diego. She oversaw the
implementation of San Diego's Mid-City Community Court. She serves on
the Advisory Committee for the Downtown Community Court, and she worked
with the San Diego Police Department to establish the Serial Inebriate
Program, a program modeled after Drug Court that uses the power of the
justice system to get chronic alcoholics who are drunk in public into
rehabilitation.

Ms. Dawson was recognized as Prosecutor of the Year for the City of San
Diego in 1998. She received her J.D. degree cum laude from the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She served as
Technical Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. She was named to the Order
of the Coif and the Thurston Honor Society. She received her B.A. degree
summa cum laude in Communication from the University of California, San
Diego. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Dawson worked in television
news as a writer, producer, and reporter at television stations in
Oregon, Arizona, and California.

**JAYME DELANO** is the Project Director for the Brooklyn Treatment
Court and a Certified Social Worker (CSW) in New York State. Ms. Delano
has a BA in Criminal Justice from Long Island University C.W. Post
Campus and she received a Masters degree in Social Work from New York
University in 1993 and shortly thereafter obtained a CSW. Ms. Delano has
been employed in the human services field for 17 years providing
services to substance abusing offenders in alternative to incarceration
programs and treating people with mental health disorders in
community-based clinics. Ms. Delano is a part time therapist at a
substance abuse clinic and has a private practice.

**HON. ELLEN C. DESHAZER** is Superior Court Judge of Compton Superior
Court Central Judicial District. She has served as Superior Court Judge
since January of 2000. She was previously Municipal Court Judge from
April 27, 1995 to January 22, 2000, Municipal Court Commissioner,
Compton Municipal Court, July, 1998 to April, 1995, Deputy District
Attorney, Los Angeles County, January, 1983 to July, 1998. Her current
assignment includes criminal pre-trials, jury trials, civil jury trials
and Drug Court. The Compton Drug Court has been open since April of 1998
with over 100 successful graduates.

Judge DeShazer received a Community Service Award from the City of
Lynwood in recognition of the grand opening of the newly established
Compton Drug Court and by the City of Compton for the Philanthropic
Contributions and Outstanding Community Service for the opening of the
newly established Compton Drug Court. She is a member of the National
Association of Drug Court Professionals, California Association of Drug
Court Professionals, Black Women Lawyers, California Judges Association,
and the National Bar Association. She received her B.S. and J.D. from
Glendale University College of Law.

**Hon. Bonnie Dumanis** is a judge of the Superior Court of San Diego
County, currently assigned to the Appellate Calendar and a general
criminal court. Last year she was assigned to the Domestic Violence
Court, where she heard domestic violence criminal cases, as well as many
Family Law matters. In 1999 Judge Dumanis served as a Juvenile Court
judge. She heard delinquency cases and juvenile dependency drug court
cases. She was elected to the Superior Court by the voters of San Diego
County in 1998.

Prior to this, Judge Dumanis was a judge of the San Diego Municipal
Court for four years, having won a city-wide election to that office in
1994. She was elected by her fellow judges to serve as the Assistant
Presiding Judge of the San Diego Municipal Court in 1998. While on the
Municipal Court she oversaw the creation of Drug Court. She served as
the Drug Court judge for 1 ½ years.

Judge Dumanis has taught courses for the California Judges Association
(CJA), the California Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER),
and the National Judges Association. She has also taught courses for the
National Association of Drug Court Professionals and the Justice
Management Institute.

**JAMES S. EGAR** is the Public Defender of Santa Barbara County,
California. He is a Certified Criminal Law Specialist with the State Bar
of California. He is a professor of law who has taught at the University
of California at Davis Law School and Western State University Law
School. Mr. Egar has tried the full spectrum of criminal law cases over
a 24-year career. He has written grants for drug courts that have been
funded by the U.S. Department of Justice as well as implementation
protocols, contracts and confidentiality agreements. He has taught about
drug court issues on behalf of the N.A.D.C.P., Justice Management
Institute, U.S. Department of Justice and was a plenary speaker at the
most recent conference of the National Association of Drug Court
Professionals.

**HON. SUSAN P. FINLAY** was a trial judge for 20 years. She retired
from the San Diego Superior Court in 2000. While serving as a trial
judge, Judge Finlay planned, implemented and operated the first adult
drug court in the Southern Division, Chula Vista, California, and also
served as a juvenile drug court judge in the San Diego Superior Court
Juvenile Drug program. After leaving the bench, she served as the
Education Director for NADCP and NDCI until June 2001 and currently
serves as the Education Director for the Center for Problem Solving
Courts ([www.problemsolvingcourts.com)](). Judge Finlay also teaches
Lawyering Skills Classes at the University of San Diego, School of Law,
as an adjunct professor.

Judge Finlay has devoted much of her professional career to legal
education on a local, national and international level, including drug
court training in Brazil. She was a faculty member of the California
Judicial College for 15 years and was the Associate Dean and Dean of the
Judicial College from 1988 to 1991. She was the Interim Director of
CJER, California Judicial Education and Research, in 1993 and served as
Chair of the CJER Governing Committee. She served on the Judicial
Council of the State of California and as Project Chair for the National
Association of Women Judges Board of Directors. She is a past President
of the Women Judges Fund for Justice. She has done training for the
National Judicial College, the National Council for Juvenile and Family
Court Judges, and participated in a Justice System training in
Kyrgystan. Judge Finlay received the Legal Professional of the Year
Award from the San Diego Bar Association in 2000 for her work in local
drug courts. She is the recipient of the Founder's Award of the Western
Society of Criminology for 2002. She currently sits on assignment for
the Superior Court in California while not involved in other projects.

**Carson L. Fox, Jr.** is a Project Director with the National Drug
Court Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. Carson graduated from the
University of South Carolina Honor's College in 1990, and the USC School
of Law in 1993. In his capacity as Fellow for NDCI, Carson works with
the Drug Court Planning Initiative, sponsored by the Drug Court Programs
Office, United States Department of Justice, tracking and assisting
teams developing drug courts across the country. He is also a member of
the editorial board of the National Drug Court Institute Review, serves
as head faculty for the Drug Court Coordinator Trainings, and works on
curriculum development and policy for the Institute.

Before joining NDCI, Carson was a prosecutor and drug court coordinator
of the adult and juvenile drug courts in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit
of South Carolina. In 1996, Carson helped implement South Carolina's
first drug court, and later served as the secretary of the South
Carolina Association of Drug Court Professionals. In that capacity, he
assisted in planning three statewide conferences.

Carson has worked with the National Association of Drug Court
Professionals, the Justice Management Institute, the National Leadership
Institute, and has done statewide drug court trainings in South
Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, and New York. In November 2000, he
also served as faculty for drug court trainings in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, sponsored by the United States Embassy and Organization of
American States. In 2001 he participated in a follow-up training in Rio
de Janeiro and three additional Brazilian states, sponsored by the
United States Embassy, and the United States Department of State, Office
of Democracy and Human Rights. He is a member of the National
Association of Drug Court Professionals and the South Carolina
Association of Drug Court Professionals.

**HON. DENNIS M. FUCHS** is the Presiding Judge over the Salt Lake
County Third District Drug Court. Judge Fuchs was appointed to the Third
Circuit Court in 1985 where he served for 12 years. In 1997, he was
appointed to the Third District Court. Prior to his appointment to the
bench, Judge Fuchs served as the Chairperson for the Utah State Board of
Pardons. He has also been in private practice and was the lead
prosecutor for the District Attorney's office. Judge Fuchs received his
Bachelor's degree from Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia and his
Juris Doctorate from the Boston School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.

**PETER L. GALLAGHER** is a recently elected judge serving in a general
trial court handling both civil and criminal matters in El Cajon,
California an eastern suburb of San Diego County. Peter also serves as
the alternate drug court judge. Before his election, Peter was a
 veteran prosecutor with the San Diego District Attorney\'s Office
assigned to the Central Drug Court Division. Since joining the District
Attorney\'s Office, Mr. Gallagher has been assigned to a general trial
division, Major Narcotics and Family Protection. In his domestic
violence practice, he has promoted a community involved program which
has stressed seeking innovative solutions to an age-old problem. Prior
to working in the Central Drug Court, Mr. Gallagher was active in the
pioneering domestic violence court in the State of California. Mr.
Gallagher has extensive therapeutic justice experience due to his
involvement in domestic violence courts and drug treatment courts.

He is a 1980 graduate of Temple University and a 1983 graduate of the
Temple University School of Law. He is a member of the bar in four
states: California, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is an
adjunct professor teaching Criminal Law at the University of San Diego.
Mr. Gallagher has been a national speaker on the plight of domestic
violence victims and the proper government response to domestic
violence. Since 1990, he has had seven years of exclusively working
domestic violence cases and has been involved in the prosecution of over
6000 misdemeanors and 500 felony cases of domestic violence.

**HON. RICHARD S. GEBELEIN** has been a Superior Court Judge for the
State of Delaware since 1984 and currently serves as the Chief of the
Criminal Trial Division in New Castle County. Prior to his appointment
to the bench, he was elected Attorney General of Delaware in 1978 and
served until 1983. He previously served as both a Deputy Attorney
General and Chief Deputy Public Defender. He is currently on the faculty
of Widener University School of Law.

Judge Gebelein currently chairs the Delaware Sentencing Accountability
Commission and had served as a member of its predecessor -- the
Governor's Sentencing Reform Committee. In these

capacities, he has overseen the implementation of many correctional and
treatment programs, sentencing guidelines and authored several pieces of
legislation, including Delaware's Truth in Sentencing Act in 1990.
Delaware's guidelines emphasize use of the 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.
In August, 2000, he began a "re-entry" court to supervise felons
returning to the community after serving their state prison sentences.
Judge Gebelein also serves on the Board of Directors of National TASC,
National Association of Drug Court Professionals and is a member of the
Violence Against Women's Act Committee (VAWA).

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.

**Evelyn Goldman** has been a criminal defense attorney for almost 20
years, the last 15 of which have been spent at the San Diego County
Department of the Public Defender. As well as extensive trial
experience, Evelyn also brings to the table a view of the management,
policy and procedural issues which structure new and existing programs,
such as Drug Courts.  Evelyn is currently the assistant Branch
Supervisor of the South County Office of the Public Defender.  She has
been the Public Defender Drug Court deputy for at least five years, also
serving her department as Branch Office Countywide Drug
Court Coordinator.  She has taught Trial Skills at Western Sierra School
of Law, and has been on the faculty of various institutes, including
NITA and NDCI.

**JACOB GOMEZ** has approximately 10 years of experience in corrections
and probation, which includes staff training, client supervision and
program coordination. He is the senior probation officer with the
Bernalillo County Metropolitan DWI/Drug Court and has been with the
program for 3 years. Mr. Gomez was instrumental in the design,
development and implementation of a specialized component of the Drug
Court to address the issues of persons with both substance use and
mental health disorders. He currently supervises clients in the
Co-Occurring Track of the DWI/Drug Court and is the lead program
screener for potential participants for the entire drug court program.
Prior to his drug court involvement, Mr. Gomez was an intake officer and
a supervision officer with the Pre-Trial Services and the
Probation/Supervision Division, specializing in background
investigations, pre-sentence reports and treatment compliance and
previously served the City of Albuquerque's Department of Corrections as
a Corrections Officer and Case Manager. Mr. Gomez graduated from the
University of New Mexico in 1995. He received his Bachelor of Arts
degree in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy. He is a current
member of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and the
New Mexico Association of Drug Court Professionals.

**HON. J. WAYNE GRIEGO** graduated from the University of Albuquerque
and the University of New Mexico School of Law. He was admitted to the
New Mexico and U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico Bar
Associations in 1989, and to the Tenth Circuit of Appeals in 1997. Judge
Griego was in private practice from 1989 until his appointment to the
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court bench (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in
January 2003.

Judge Griego was appointed to the DWI/Drug Court within a week of being
sworn in. He conducts weekly sessions in both English and Spanish. As a
member of the DWI/Drug Court leadership he has participated in guiding
the program in its expansion to 350 participants and the addition of two
new program tracks. Judge Griego has been active in training Judges and
other professionals from throughout the country in conjunction with the
National Drug Court Institute, Native American Alliance Foundation and
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

With his wife and two children he remains actively involved in the
community. He is a member of the UNM Lobo Club, a past President of the
Young America Football League (Y.A.F.L.) and Vice-President of the North
Valley Little League.

**HON. MICHAEL HALEY** was elected in 1996 to the District Court bench
for a three-county district which includes Traverse City, Michigan. He
has served as Chief Judge since 1999 and was re-elected 2002. A native
of Detroit, Michigan, Judge Haley attended Wayne State University (B.A.
1970) and Loyola University School of Law in Chicago (J.D. 1974). After
serving as a judicial law clerk for the Michigan Court of Appeals,
public defender and assistant prosecuting attorney, Judge Haley
maintained a private law practice for 17 years before his election to
the bench. He started a Drug Treatment (Sobriety/DUI) Court in December
2001 and has served NDCI as a host court for its Planning Initiative.
Judge Haley has been a board member and officer for Michigan Association
of Drug Court Professional (MADCP) and has served as a presenter at its
annual conference.

**Steve Hanson** has 20 years experience in the chemical dependency
treatment field. He currently is the Director of the John L. Norris
Treatment Center, Rochester, New York. This 44-bed inpatient program is
operated by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
Services. Prior to Norris, Steve was director of an adolescent
residential chemical dependency program for 15 years. He has also taught
classes on Psychopharmacology and Chemical Addictions at the State
University of New York College at Brockport for 16 years.

Mr. Hanson was part of the Monroe County Family Court Juvenile Drug
Court design and implementation process. Currently his inpatient program
works closely with the Rochester City Drug Court. He has also presented
to Drug Court development groups around the country.

**HELEN HARBERTS** works as a Special Assistant District Attorney in
Butte County, California. Ms. Harberts works exclusively in the Butte
County Problem Solving Courts. After a decade of prosecution, Ms.
Harberts became the Chief Probation Officer of Butte County, and in that
capacity, implemented the Drug Court, DUI Court, DV Court, Juvenile Drug
Court, and planned the implementation of the Mentally Ill Offenders
Court, and the Proposition 36 Comprehensive Treatment Court.

After 7 years as Chief, Ms. Harberts returned to the practice of law,
practicing in the courts she helped to create. Ms. Harberts is a
graduate of CSU, Chico (BA, MA) and Golden Gate University (JD). Ms.
Harberts has served on a number of statewide boards and committees
involved with problem solving courts, narcotics prosecution,
police/probation teams, and violence against women. She also consults
and trains for criminal justice programs in a private capacity.

**[Carolyn Hardin]{.smallcaps}** is the Deputy Director of the National
Drug Court Institute and Project Director for the National Drug Court
Institute for the BJA Adult Drug Court Initiative Trainings. She
currently travels nationally and internationally assisting drug court
teams with planning and operating successful drug court programs. Along
with other NDCI staff and faculty, she oversees a new "Ensuring
Sustainability Project" to assist drug court teams with developing a
strategic plan for funding their drug court programs. Likewise, Ms.
Hardin is the Project Director for the "Comprehensive Drug Court
Coordinator's Training" which are held bi-annually by NDCI to assist
coordinators in understanding their role on the drug court team. She
also co-facilitates the NDCI bi-annual training program on "Research and
Evaluation" which is designed to help teams develop a research plan for
evaluating their drug court program. Prior to coming to NDCI, Ms. Hardin
was previously the Quality Assurance/Research Specialist for the
Davidson County Community Corrections Program. She received her Masters
Degree in Public Administration from the University of Akron in Ohio.
She received her Bachelors of Arts Degree in Public Administration from
Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama. As the quality
assurance/research specialist, she was responsible for resource
development and acquisition, program planning and evaluation, MIS
database manager and research for the program. Her work experience
includes Program Coordinator from February 1995 to February 1998,
Program Planner from April 1997 to August 1997, Caseworker from May 1993
to February 1995, and Assistant to the Program Manager from September
1991 to May of 1993, all with Oriana House, Inc. in Akron, Ohio. Her
past and present memberships include, National Association of Drug Court
Professionals, Secretary for the Tennessee Association of Drug Court
Professionals, American Correctional Association, International
Community Corrections Association, and Alliance for Women in Community
Corrections, Girl Scouts of America, Inc., and Ohio Community
Corrections Association.

**CYNTHIA HERRIOTT** is a police patrol Lieutenant for the City of
Rochester. She is the Departmental Liaison to the Rochester Drug
Treatment Court. She has worked with court systems and law enforcement
around the United States assisting both with working together more
effectively. She served as the NADCP Project Director in 2002 for the
COPS "Police Chiefs, Sheriffs and Drug Courts" Monograph and designed
the format. She is President of the National Organization of Black Law
Enforcement Executives, Western New York Chapter. She currently serves
on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Greater Rochester, the
Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley, and the Faith Community Alliance,
which is a task force of area religious organizations working together
to address drug abuse and crime in the Rochester Community. She holds a
Bachelor of Science Degree and is a New York State Certified Trainer.

**HOLLY HILLS, PH.D.,** is trainer, consultant and licensed clinical
psychologist from Tampa, Florida. Dr. Hills is also an Associate
Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the Louis
de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South
Florida. Since joining the USF faculty in 1990, Dr. Hills has conducted
research and supervised clinical work focused on individuals with
comorbid mental illness and substance use disorders. Over much of the
past decade she has worked with the Florida Department of Corrections as
a lead consultant in the development and evaluation of prison-based
residential treatment programs for male and female inmates with
co-occurring disorders. Dr. Hills has also been a collaborator and
consultant on the national GAINS Center project, a federal partnership
that promotes improved services for people with co-occurring disorders
in the justice system. Her recent efforts include being awarded funds by
the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), co-leading the CSAT
funded Practice Improvement Collaborative (PIC) in the Tampa Bay area.
This project has focused on knowledge adoption strategies in the areas
of co-occurring disorders and gender-sensitive treatment and seeks to
improve collaboration among researchers, practitioners, policy makers,
and criminal justice personnel who work with substance-involved
individuals in the justice system. Dr. Hills is also the principal
investigator on a Phase II CMHS--funded Community Action Grant that is
focused on integrating services for persons with co-occurring disorders
in the Tampa Bay community. In the past year, she served as an
author/editor on a series of web-based curriculum modules under contract
with the Florida Department of Children and Families. She has also
authored a report on linking women involved in dependency court to
substance abuse treatment. Over the past ten years, Dr. Hills has
presented numerous workshops at national professional meetings, and to
private and public mental health, substance abuse, and corrections-based
service providers, on the topic of implementing services for persons
with co-occurring disorders.

### THE HONORABLE HARVEY J. HOFFMAN has been the Drug Court Judge for the 56-A District Court OUIL Misdemeanor Drug Court in Charlotte, Michigan since 1997. In addition, he has been the Drug Court Judge for Eaton County Circuit OUIL Felony Drug Court from 2000 to the present day. Judge Hoffman earned his BS degree from Western Michigan University and earned his Juris Doctor degree, Cum Laude, in 1982 from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He spent 14 years in private practice of law. Since 1999 Judge Hoffman has held the position of the President of the Michigan Association of Drug Court Professionals. He has also been a member of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals Congress since 1998.

**KRISTIN C. HOFFMAN** was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a
graduate of North High School, Stanford University and University of
California, Hastings College of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of
Arizona, the California State Bar, the Maricopa County Bar Association,
the Arizona Judges Association and the Arizona Women Lawyers
Association. She currently serves as a Criminal Court Commissioner of
the Superior Court in Maricopa County. In that assignment, she serves as
a Judge Pro Tem in DUI Court, conducts preliminary hearings, and does
changes of pleas, sentencings, waivers of preliminary hearings and
covers all other Criminal Court Commissioner assignments as needed.
Before being assigned to Criminal Court in November 2002, she served as
the Domestic Violence Commissioner in the Family Court Department of the
Superior Court from January 2001 to November 2002. Prior to her
appointment as a commissioner, she served as Juvenile Court Specialist.
In that assignment and since 1997, she served as a Judge Pro Tem and
Commissioner Pro Tem in both the Family and Juvenile Court Departments
of the Superior Court in Maricopa County and heard all types of
contested hearings in both the Juvenile and Family Court Departments
including severance trials, dissolution trials and post decree
evidentiary hearings and was responsible for adoption certifications in
Maricopa County. She is a member of the Probation Committee, the Family
Violence Committee and the Family Violence Prevention Center Task Force
of the Superior Court in Maricopa County. She has served as a faculty
member at continuing legal education classes sponsored by the Maricopa
County Bar Association, the Arizona Judicial College and the Family
Court Department of the Superior Court. Current community activities
outside the court system include teaching Sunday school to second
graders. She and her husband are the parents of four grown children.

**C. West Huddleston, III** is presently the Director of the National
Drug Court Institute (NDCI). Based in Alexandria, Virginia, NDCI is the
educational, research and scholarship branch of the National Association
of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), a non-profit non-governmental
organization supported by the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of
Justice. Mr. Huddleston is ultimately responsible for the planning and
execution of over seventy-five training events and fifty technical
assistance visits throughout the United States and abroad each year.

Mr. Huddleston is a Board Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor with 13
years of clinical experience working with misdemeanor and felony
offenders on the county, state, and federal levels. Prior to being named
Director of NDCI, Mr. Huddleston worked throughout the Tennessee and
Oklahoma correctional systems. During this period, he teamed with both
states' respective Departments of Corrections to develop, implement and
operate numerous offender-specific, in-custody mental health and
substance abuse treatment programs. Of particular pride to Mr.
Huddleston is his team's winning the Governor's Team Excellence award
for the design and implementation of the first prison therapeutic
community and work camp within the Oklahoma Department of Corrections
(The Bill Johnson Correctional Center).

Mr. Huddleston has also served as the Director of two community
corrections programs and as the Interim Director of a 125-bed
pre-release correctional center. In addition, he co-designed and
implemented the first two drug courts in the State of Oklahoma, one of
which served as an early Mentor Court for the U.S. Department of
Justice. He has published several articles and monographs on drug
courts, in-custody substance abuse treatment and reentry courts. Mr.
Huddleston has served as a special consultant to the National Institute
of Justice (NIJ) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as well as
with the Tennessee and Oklahoma Departments of Corrections. He is
currently a member of the Substance Abuse Committee of the American
Correctional Association and a faculty member of the National Judicial
College.

**LINDA P. HUGHES** is a deputy public defender in San Diego, California
and has been with that office since 1988. She currently is assigned to
the central San Diego County Adult Drug Court and has served in that
capacity since the program's inception in March of 1997. Prior to her
position as a deputy public defender, Ms. Hughes was a crime victim's
advocate with the legal clinic at the California Center on Victimology.
Ms. Hughes graduated from San Diego State University and received her
law degree, *Magna Cum Laude*, from Thomas Jefferson University in 1987.

**Theresa Irwin** has been the Program Director for the Blount County
Drug Courts in Maryville, Tennessee since August 1998. She is
responsible for all administrative and management functions -- including
budgeting and accounting, program development and monitoring, policies
and procedures, MIS development, and staff management of two adult drug
courts (one traditional track and one community corrections track). Ms.
Irwin is also responsible for directing and coordinating the efforts of
the juvenile drug court planning team. In February of 2003, she will add
administrative and management functions of the juvenile drug court to
her duties upon implementation of the court. Ms. Irwin currently serves
as a board member for the Blount County Community Mediation Center. Her
memberships present and past include Tennessee Association of Drug Court
Professionals, National Association of Drug Court Professionals,
Government Finance Officers Association, National Association of Female
Executives, Fairview Technology Board, and Tennessee Association of
Court Clerks. Her prior work experience includes a four year position
with the Blount County Circuit Court Clerk's Office as the Financial
Administrative Assistant, a six year position with the Blount County
Office of Accounts and Budgets as a Budget and Accounts Analyst, and a
one year position with the Knox County Clerk and Master's Office as a
Computer Supervisor. Ms. Irwin attended the University of Tennessee and
the College of St. Scholastica in Business Administration.

**RON JACKSON, M.S.W.**, is the Executive Director of Evergreen
Treatment Services (ETS), a private non-profit community
based-organization, in Seattle, Washington, that provides outpatient
opioid treatment to over 950 patients in clinics in Seattle and Olympia,
WA. ETS has been a part of Seattle-King County Drug Court services since
1995. Mr. Jackson has been an Investigator on many research projects
which have been conducted at ETS over the past decade. Those studies
have investigated treatment, motivational enhancement and acupuncture
interventions for opiate dependent individuals, cocaine addicts and
marijuana dependent individuals. He is currently a Co-Principal
Investigator for the Washington Node of NIDA's Clinical Trials Network.

Mr. Jackson is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington's
School of Social Work and has provided lectures on Relapse and
Psychopharmacology for the National Drug Court Institute for several
years.

Mr. Jackson has been working as a clinician, administrator, educator,
researcher and consultant in the field of addiction treatment since
1972. In April, 2003 he was awarded the Nyswander-Dole Award by the
American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence for his
contributions to the field.

**Susan James-Andrews** has been active in the field of Behavioral
Health Services for over 20 years. Originating from New York, Ms.
James-Andrews is President of James-Andrews & Associates: Challenges, a
training and consultative organization based in Mitchellville, Maryland.

Ms. James-Andrews has concentrated her efforts in Systems Reform,
Sustainability, Culturally relevant services, Quality Improvement and
Program Development/Enhancement. Most recently, she has focused on Drug
Courts/ Healing to Wellness Courts (adult, juvenile, tribal and family),
providing training or technical assistance for over 400 state courts,
and 40 tribal courts. She has been a consultant for the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the Bureau of Justice Assistance,
Department of Justice, Native American Alliance Foundation, (NAAF) and
the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges amongst many
others.

Ms. James-Andrews' energetic style has provided her the opportunity to
utilize her skills in both the private and public sector. Her extensive
background in organizational development, education, prevention,
substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, accreditation, HIV/AIDS, gender
specific and programmatic issues has afforded her the opportunities to
consult in a variety of areas. Her vast experience across systems has
included corporate reorganization, prisons/jails/detention centers;
State agencies, Universities, Corporations; and Community- based
organizations.

Ms. James-Andrews has actively pursued quality services for all
individuals. She has appeared on television, cable, radio, and before
legislature as an educator, lecturer, and advocate for Behavioral Health
and consumer issues.

Ms. James-Andrews has degrees in Business Administration/Marketing,
Community Health, and Counseling Psychology. She serves on several
advisory committees; she is the former Chair of the Thurgood Marshall
Action Coalition Inc., a Board member for the Center for Cultural
Competent Education (SUNY Stony Brook) and the National Association of
Drug Court Professionals. Ms. James-Andrews is the former Chair of
Organization and Development for the National Black Alcoholism and
Addiction Council and serves an advisory Board member for the Native
American Alliance Foundation. She is a former administrative and program
surveyor for CARF: The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission. Ms.
James-Andrews is the recipient of numerous awards, among them, Community
Leaders of America, Notable 2000 Women of America, and Outstanding Young
Women of America. *For more information: <sjamand@comcast.net> or
301-430-0278.*

**Mack Jenkins** is a Division Director with Orange County Probation
Department in Santa Ana, CA. He has worked in the criminal justice
system for more than 24 years. His drug court experience dates to 1995
when he helped design and implement the Orange Co. Drug Court, which now
serves more than 400 felony offenders. In addition to his work with
NDCI, Mr. Jenkins has served as a trainer with the Justice Management
Institute and a number of statewide court associations.

**HON. CHARLES JONES** received a B.S. degree at San Diego University
and a J.D. at the University of San Diego of Law. He was a Deputy
District Attorney in San Diego County from 1968-1972 and a Criminal
Defense Attorney from 1972-1980. Judge Jones moved to Imperial County
and was the Assistant District Attorney in Imperial County from
1980-1981 and was appointed to the Imperial County Municipal Court Bench
in 1981. He retired from the Municipal Court in 1997 and has been on
assignment in the Retired Judges' Association Program since 1997. Judge
Jones has been assigned to the San Diego Superior Court's Division Drug
Court/Prop 36 Court since January, 2003.

**Hon. Calvin Johnson** was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana. He graduated
from Iberville High School and Southern University at Baton Rouge where
he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Upon graduation, Judge Johnson
entered the United States Air Force where he served for five years.
After his service, he attended Loyola University School of Law where he
received his Juris Doctorate upon graduation. Judge Johnson then
returned to Loyola Law School where he held the position of Professor of
Law and Criminal Clinic Director. In 1990, he was elected Judge of
Section E of Criminal District Court of Orleans Parish and was reelected
in 1996 and 2002. On January 1, 2004, Judge Johnson was elected Chief
Judge of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court.

Judge Johnson has served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School
since his election to the bench. He has served on the Boards of Bridge
House, Children's Bureau, Armstrong Family Service, Covenant House, the
Substance Abuse Services Alliance and the New Orleans Legal Assistance
Corporation. He is the founder of New Orleans Volunteers in Court, the
co-founder of the Big Easy Kiwanis Club and the Coordinator of the
Reverend Thomas Nelson Washington Memorial Scholarship Fund. He is a
Past President of the Louis A. Martinet Society and a recipient of the
Society's Outstanding Attorney Award as well as the Justice Albert Tate
Award.

Judge Johnson has presided over a Drug Court since 1998 and is the
founder and Presiding Judge of the Orleans Parish Mental Health
Treatment Court. This Court began operation on December 1, 2003, and is
the only mental health treatment court in the State of Louisiana.

**Kim-Monique Johnson** is a Social Worker and an independent
consultant. She has written curricula and provided performance
development training for the following: Lawyer's Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, New York City Department of Probation, New York City
Department of Juvenile Justice, Long Island Conference Committee on
Chemical Dependency, Nassau University Medical Center's Center for
Professional Education, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Addiction Specialist Program, National Black Leadership Commission on
AIDS, New York City Department of Health, New York City Board of
Education, Girl Scouts of Nassau County, Inc., U.S. Department of
Justice- Drug Court Program Office, and Newsday.

Most recently, Kim-Monique Johnson helped develop and deliver the
training, "Cultural Proficiency in Drug Court Practice," a course that
has been conducted in five U.S. drug court jurisdictions across the
country. Ms. Johnson's international experience includes a year of youth
development in francophone Gabon, Central Africa. As a broadcast
journalist, she reported to the New York tri-state area via live radio
during the 13^th^ International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.
She served as a consultant for a Centers for Disease Control Project
"HIV Prevention for Street Youth" in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Ms. Johnson co-wrote "Choices and Challenges: Preparing Me for the World
I Face", a substance abuse prevention program manual, and designed the
"Growing Strong, Staying Healthy: Breast Health Awareness Program" for
the Girl Scouts of Nassau County, Inc. Her work, "HIV Issues for African
American Women in Drug Treatment," consists of a trainer and participant
manual developed for National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

Kim-Monique Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from
The Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Social Work Degree from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook where she specialized in
Policy, Administration, and Research. She currently supervises an HIV
counseling and testing program under the auspices of the Nassau County
Department of Drug and Alcohol Addiction.

**HON. J. MICHAEL KAVANAUGH** is the Bernalillo County Metropolitan
Court Judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Judge Kavanaugh received his law
degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1984. He
practiced law with Northern New Mexico Legal Services in Las Vegas, New
Mexico, before becoming a Public Defender in Albuquerque. Judge
Kavanaugh went into private practice from 1989 until his appointment to
the bench in 1991. He served as a member of the statewide DWI Task
Force, the New Mexico Drug Court Task Force, the Domestic Violence Task
Force, the Metropolitan Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, and has
served on a number of Supreme Court appointed committees. Judge
Kavanaugh began an alcohol-based Drug Court in July 1997, and serves as
a Drug Court Judge, in addition to carrying a caseload. He is a member
of the Board for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals,
as well as the Chair of the Board's Sub-Committee on DUI/Drug Courts.
Judge Kavanaugh was a faculty member with the Justice Management
Institute\'s Drug Court Training Program in 1999 and is currently a
faculty member with the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI). In June
1999, Judge Kavanaugh\'s Drug Court was named by the NDCI as the only
DWI Drug Court Mentor Court in the United States.

**HON. WILLIAM KEESLEY** graduated in 1975 from Wofford College in
Spartanburg, South Carolina with a B.A. degree in Government, summa cum
laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He studied law at the University of South
Carolina and received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1978.

Judge Keesley was engaged in the private practice of law from 1978 to
1991. During this period, he also performed the duties of Public
Defender for Edgefield, McCormick, and Saluda counties from 1983 to1987,
and was Assistant Solicitor (Prosecutor) for the Eleventh Judicial
Circuit from 1987 to 1988. Additionally, the Judge was a member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives from 1989 to 1991, serving on
the Judiciary Committee and Criminal Laws Subcommittee.

Judge Keesley was elected Resident Judge of the Eleventh Judicial
Circuit of South Carolina in 1991 and has served continuously since. The
circuit court is a court of general jurisdiction. He was instrumental in
the formation of South Carolina\'s first Drug Treatment Court, which
held its first session in July 1996. He continues to serve as one of the
volunteer judges for that adult court, and also serves as the volunteer
presiding judge over a three-county adult Drug Court each week. There
are now adult and juvenile Drug Courts, as well as a Domestic Violence
Court operating in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

**JANE E. KENNEDY** has been the executive director of TASC of King
County in Seattle, Washington since 1987. TASC of King County is a
private non-profit organization, specializing in substance abuse
intervention services for court mandated clients. Her previous work
experience includes adult probation and chemical dependency treatment
for both adults and adolescents. She contributed to the planning and
development of the drug court in Seattle and other local drug courts in
the State of Washington. At the national level she has served as a grant
reviewer for the Drug Court Program Office and she was a member of the
Drug Court standards Committee that developed *Defining Drug Courts: The
Key Components*.

She is a former president of National TASC as well as a board member and
former president of the Washington State Association of TASC Programs.
She is also a founding board member and past chair of the Washington
State Coalition on Women's Substance Abuse Issues. She has been
certified as a chemical dependency counselor since 1983. She earned a
B.A. in history from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1970 and a
master's in public administration from Seattle's University Institute of
Public Service in 1982.

**TED A. KNIGHT** presides over the Drug Court in the 16th Judicial
District of Oklahoma. He has served as a trial judge in Oklahoma for 19
years and has presided over the District\'s Drug Court since its
inception approximately 2 years ago. He also serves on the Board of
Directors for the Oklahoma Drug Court Association and holds the office
of President-elect. Judge Knight received his JD degree in 1975 from
Oklahoma City University.

**ROBERT KOCH** received his Master of Science degree in mental health
counseling from Nova Southeastern University in 1997, having received
his Bachelor of Science degree in political science and economics from
East Texas State University. He has been involved in substance abuse
counseling in a myriad of modalities, including private practice
(specializing in DUI offenders), private providers, government, as a
vital member of the Broward County Drug Court Program from 1992 through
2000 and now as the drug court coordinator for the Miami‑Dade Drug
Court.

He has worked in almost every component of the drug court system: as
counselor in a detox unit; an out‑patient counselor; in developing and
implementing a culturally sensitive program for Spanish‑speaking
clients; running the jail‑based treatment program (identified as ATACC);
as a special projects coordinator/court liaison; and was instrumental in
the creation and development of the Broward County Drug Court Reentry
Program from both jail and prison‑based treatment. Additionally, he has
been a speaker at a number of international, national, and state‑wide
conferences. He is currently employed as senior deputy court
administrator, drug court coordinator for the 11th Judicial Circuit. He
has a vast and varied career and is a strong advocate for the drug court
system and its impact on the handling of criminal justice clients.

**Igor Koutsenok, MS, MD** joined the ATTC in 1997. He is an Associate
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine. He is
also an Associate Director of the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology
Transfer Center at UCSD. Igor\'s responsibilities include developing
training curricula and providing training on substance abuse problems
for a large variety of professionals from the criminal justice system in
California, Arizona and New Mexico. He is also conducting research
projects.

Dr. Koutsenok graduated as a medical doctor at the Medical University in
Kiev-Ukraine in 1983. He has a degree as a psychiatrist from the Medical
University in Sofia-Bulgaria (1991), and a Masters Degree in Addictive
Behavior from the University of London-UK (1996). Before joining the
UCSD PSATTC, he worked in Bulgaria as Head of Department at the National
Center for Addictions and Deputy Director of the Institute of
Psychology. During the last 10 years, he served as an expert and
consultant for many organizations in Europe such as Council of Europe,
European Union, European Drug Demand Reduction Program. In 1996-97 he
served as an expert to the United Nations, International Narcotic
Control Board.

Dr. Koutsenok is an author and co-author of over 20 scientific
publications. He has been invited as presenter to a large number of
conferences and workshops in more than 15 countries.

**KIMBERLY KOZLOWSKI** has been the Program Coordinator of the Syracuse
Community Treatment Court (SCTC) since September 1997. The SCTC is an
adult Drug Treatment Court that began operating is January 1997and
monitors both Felony and Misdemeanor clients as well as Probation
Violation cases. The SCTC began with a planning grant in 1996 and has
been the recipient of an implementation and enhancement grant form the
US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Since September of
2001 the treatment court has become an integrated part of the New York
State Unified Court System and operates as a special part of Syracuse
City Court.

Kim is also the Planning Coordinator for the Onondaga County Family
Treatment Court. The Family Treatment Court planning team has just
completed their Federal Planning and expect to open in January 2004.

Kim is on the Board of Directors of the New York State Association of
Drug Treatment Court Professionals and is on the faculty of the NYS Drug
Court Training Institute. Kim is also a staff member of the National
Drug Court Association and trains other drug court professionals
throughout the country.

Prior to working with the Treatment Courts Kim was the Director of the
Onondaga County Youth Court Program for 2 years and was an Administrator
for the YMCA of Greater Syracuse for 8 years. Kim is a graduate of
Springfield College in Springfield, MA.

**THOMAS KUBINIEC** has been an Assistant District Attorney for the Erie
County District's Attorney's Office in Buffalo, New York since February
of 1999. His current assignment is to oversee all the drug courts and
mental health courts in Erie County, initiate the DTAP (Drug Treatment
Alternative to Incarceration) felony Drug Court in Erie County and to
assist in Community Prosecution. Between February of 1999 and June of
2000, Mr. Kubiniec was assigned to the City of Lackawanna Drug Court,
the City of Tonawanda Drug Court, the Town of Amherst Drug Court and the
Town of Cheektowaga Drug Court. In all these courts, Mr.Kubiniec helped
forge a new and more active role for the District Attorney's Office in
the drug court proceedings. In January of 2003 to May 2003, he was
assigned to the Buffalo City Court Drug Court and Mental Health Court.
Since October of 2003, he has been asked to oversee all Drug Courts and
Mental Health Courts in Erie County supervising two other assistants,
develop and initiate the DTAP felon Drug Court in Erie County and assist
in Community Prosecution.

Mr. Kubiniec has served as a Statewide Drug Court Prosecutor mentor and
assisted in training session for several new drug courts in New York
State. H e participated in the City of Tonawanda Juvenile Drug Court
planning committee as well as being a member of the Education
sub-committee for the Erie County Juvenile Treatment Committee, Erie
County Family Court. Mr. Kubiniec graduated from Canisius College,
Buffalo, New York and from the Thomas M. Cooley School, Lansing,
Michigan.

**Leonard C. Kuentz** has been a criminal defense attorney for
twenty-one years, and currently helps initiate and supervise Drug
Treatment Courts in Maryland for the Maryland Public Defender. After
attending the first National Drug Court Conference in Miami in 1993, and
recognizing that drug courts were the best thing to have happened to the
criminal justice system since the Magna Carta, Mr. Kuentz left the
felony trial division to help initiate Baltimore\'s Drug Treatment
Courts in 1994.

Since then he has devoted himself to drug courts, and has provided
technical assistance and consulted nationally, mostly under the auspices
of NDIC. The Maryland Court of Appeals recently appointed Mr. Kuentz to
its Drug Treatment Court Commission, which will start and coordinate
drug treatment courts in Maryland. President Bush has not yet sent his
congratulations.

**HON. MICHAEL KWAN** is a Judge for the City of Taylorsville Justice
Court in Taylorsville, UT. He was appointed to serve as the first
Justice Court Judge for the City of Taylorsville in May 1998. He is the
first Chinese-American to be appointed to the judiciary in Utah. Under
his leadership, the Taylorsville court has been recognized for its
innovative solutions to crime. It operates the first formal substance
abuse program to be created for misdemeanor offenders in the State of
Utah. The Substance Abuse Court (SAC) program admits non-violent
offenders with drug or alcohol charges or whose criminal activity is the
result of drug or alcohol dependence. The court was the first in the
State to offer an adult victim-offender mediation program. Judge Kwan
was formerly an Assistant City Prosecutor in Salt Lake City and a Judge
Pro Tempore with the Third District Court in Utah. He is an adjunct
professor for the Salt Lake Community College and also teaches for the
Administrative Office of the Courts. Judge Kwan received his J.D. from
Whittier Law School, Los Angeles, California.

**LEE LANG** has been in the addiction field for the past 16 years,
receiving her degree from Mary Crest College, Davenport, Iowa. She began
as an adolescent family counselor in Moline, Illinois, and then moved to
Dallas, Texas to become the Director of Admissions at Bear Creek
Recovery Center. Ms. Lang joined White Oaks Companies of Illinois in
1990 as an IOP counselor. Becoming the treatment provider project
manager in 1997, Ms. Lang has been coordinating the White Oaks treatment
programs with the Peoria County Drug Court. In November 2002, Ms. Lang,
adding to her assignments, became the treatment provider coordinator for
the new federal initiative, PADI Program (Pre-trial Alternatives to
Detention Initiative).

**JONATHAN M. LAUSELL** is a qualified Health Services Professional, who
for the past fourteen years has made a career out of assisting hundreds
of individuals in redirecting their lives. Mr. Lausell is a **Certified
Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC), and a Certified Criminal Justice
Counselor (CJC).**

Mr. Lausell was born in New York City and raised in the housing projects
of the Bronx, which is also where he began his career. In 1989, he began
working as a peer counselor for a residential treatment program,
therapeutic community (T.C.), in the South Bronx. Crime was at an all
time high throughout the county, and the crack/cocaine epidemic was to
blame. Long-term treatment programs were overcrowded and placement was
difficult if not impossible. The need for treatment to address both
crime and drugs spurned a movement in treatment known today as
"Alternatives to Incarceration". Mr. Lausell became employed with the
Osborne Association, a nationally recognized criminal justice agency. He
began working with their day treatment program **(El Rio)**,
specifically designed for criminal justice involved substance abusers.
He began as a **Substance Abuse Counselor**, and was then involved in
the development of their **Alternatives to Incarceration** **Unit**, of
which he was the **Coordinator**. Working with the criminal justice
population brought Mr. Lausell to all the courts in New York City
including the largest pre-trail detention center in the United States,
(Rikers Island).

Mr. Lausell then began working on a three-year research project, called
"Health Link" which was funded by the **Research Foundation of New York
City**. Through **research and case management**, a program was
developed to assist women and youth, make the transition from
incarceration, back into the communities in which they live. The
**project was** completed, with the transfer of the **model**, to a
community-based organization **(Fortune Society)**.

Mr. Lausell moved to Northern New Jersey and immediately began working
with New Jersey's largest Acute Care Impatient Detoxification Center,
Bergen Regional Medical Center. Mr. Lausell's desire to continue
assisting those substance abusers involved in the criminal justice
system has brought him to his present employer. **New Jersey's Bergen
County Drug Court**, where he is currently the Substance Abuse
Evaluator. He brings with him a vast amount of experience working with
the criminal justice involved individual. Mr. Lausell reports his belief
is to **MEET THE CLIENT WHERE THE CLIENT IS AT**, and that people do
recover from drugs and crime, but only at his or her own pace.

**HON. KENT LAWRENCE** is the judge of the State Court of Clarke County
in Athens, Georgia. He was recommended by the Judicial Nominating
Committee for the State of Georgia and appointed by Governor Joe Frank
Harris to complete the unexpired portion of the term of the late
Honorable Grady Pittard from November 1985 through December 1986. On
January 1, 1987, he continued service as State Court Judge after having
been elected by the citizens of Clarke County to each term thereafter.
Prior to this, he was in private practice of law in Athens;
additionally, served as Assistant Solicitor from 1982 to 1985. He
received both his Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Masters
degree in Education from the University of Georgia, Athens and his Juris
Doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia.

**[Atoundra Lawson]{.smallcaps}** received her Juris Doctorate from
Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Upon
graduating, Mrs. Lawson served as a judicial law clerk for the 40^th^
Judicial District Court. After completing her clerkship, she was offered
a position as an Indigent Defense Attorney with the 40^th^ Judicial
District Indigent Defense Board. While serving as an Indigent Defender,
Mrs. Lawson began a private law practice that was maintained until her
introduction to drug courts at a National Association of Drug Court
Professionals Conference.

After discovering drug court, Mrs. Lawson began volunteering with the
40^th^ Judicial District Adult Drug Court. Once the court obtained
funding to operate, she was hired as the Drug Court Coordinator. During
her tenure, Mrs. Lawson created an intensive outpatient treatment
center, licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals,
for her drug court and significantly increased the drug court's
operating budget through grants and other fundraising activities.

Currently, Mrs. Lawson is a Program Manager with the National Drug Court
Institute. She has also served as a criminal defense trial attorney for
the 29^th^ Judicial District Indigent Defense Board, a member of the
board of directors for the St. John Court Appointed Special Advocates
(CASA), a member of the American Bar Association, and a member of the
Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals. Before joining the
staff of NDCI, Mrs. Lawson was awarded the 29^th^ Judicial District Bar
Association's 2004 Pro Bono Publico award. She maintains admittance to
the Louisiana State Bar Association.

**Hon. Lawrence Lawson** attended Neptune Township public schools and
graduated from Neptune High School in 1965. He was awarded a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland in l969. In
1972 he graduated from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. with a
Juris Doctor degree.

After many years of private practice, he was appointed to the Bench by
then Governor Thomas Kean on January 16, 1987. His initial assignment
was to the Civil Division and then to the Criminal Division where he was
Presiding Judge for approximately three years. In September of 1992 he
was designated as the Judge of the Drug Court, established under the
Drug Court Act of the State of New Jersey. He was appointed as the
Assignment Judge of the Monmouth Vicinage on April 15, 1993.

As the Assignment Judge, in the absence of the assigned Drug Court
Judge, he conducted the weekly in-court review of all drug court
participants. He has become an integral part of our out-reach program to
community leaders and organizations such as the Clergy Advisory
Committee to educate them about the Drug Court in the Monmouth Vicinage
and to foster a partnership with these organizations with the Drug Court
team. He participated in the Skills-Based Training Program for the Drug
Court Planning Initiative in the spring of 2002 in Pensacola, Florida,
and the Operational Training Program in San Diego, California in August
of 2002. These sessions covered the Ten Key Components of the Drug Court
as well as team building, models and structures, community mapping and
building, policies and procedures and an overview of treatment,
sanctions and incentives, along with ethics, confidentiality,
evaluation, resources and court requirements

**LARS LEVY** is the administrator of 5 substance abuse programs. He has
over 16 years experience in the treatment field as both a counselor and
a manager. The inpatient Fairview Treatment Center was established in
1990. Since that time, the Clair House for Women and Children, and the
Fairview Outpatient (Drug Court) Treatment Clinic in both St. Mary
Parish and Iberia Parish have been established. Fairview has added a
Family Focused Juvenile Drug Court in Iberia Parish. His association
with various professional organizations assure a good working
relationship with licensing and training bodies needed for the continued
compliance with all regulations for these programs. Mr. Levy remains
committed to the concept of quality, cost effective treatment while at
the same time adjusting to and complying with changing regulations, to
the current environment.

**LISA LIGHTMAN** is a Court Services Analyst with the Collaborative
Justice Programs at the California Administrative Office of the Courts.
She provides grant oversight for the distribution of \$1 million of
state funds and is co-managing a cost benefit evaluation of California
drug courts with NPC Research. Lisa is also a current faculty member for
the National Drug Court Institute's (NDCI) adult drug court training
initiative. In 1997, Ms. Lightman began her career in drug courts as the
Statewide Coordinator for Drug Courts for New Mexico's Administrative
Office of the Courts. Her primary responsibilities included providing
staff support to the New Mexico Association of Drug Court Professionals
(NMADCP), assisting courts in seeking federal funds, introducing
statewide legislation for drug court funding and serving as a member of
the Juvenile Crime Enforcement Coalition to secure additional federal
funds for juvenile drug courts. Ms. Lightman also served as Project
Director for the Supreme Court Committee to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias
in the Courts. Prior to this position, she was a Marketing Director at a
large community health care center in Boston, served as a consultant on
teen pregnancy and day care policy for the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health and worked for public television in New York. Ms. Lightman
has a liberal arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and a
Masters Degree in Public Policy from Tufts University in Medford, MA.

**HON. WENDY LINDLEY** has been a Drug Court Judge in Orange County
Superior Court since 1994. She began a Drug Court the first week on the
bench and has run it continuously since. Prior to becoming a judge she
was a prosecutor for the Orange County District Attorney's Office.  She
has lectured on topics such as Drug courts and Domestic Violence all
over the United States. She is currently the newsletter editor for the
California Association of Drug Court Professionals. She is Co-chair of
the DV Death Review Team and Community Court Committee to develop a one
stop services court for drug addicts, mental health defendants and the
homeless.

**Jaki Livingston** is an Assistant Polk County Attorney, a prosecutor,
in the City of Des Moines, Iowa. She began her practice in 1994, doing a
brief, six month, stint in private practice and then joining the
prosecution team in June, 1994. After a years assignment to the
indictable misdemeanor docket, she turned her attention to her (then)
passion, Juvenile Court. She served the State of Iowa in juvenile
delinquency cases as well as child abuse/neglect cases. She helped
implement the State's permanency plan for children, executing more
termination of parental rights for children from unfit parents than the
entire state generated in a year. She assumed her present duties
prosecuting general felony cases, the Fifth Judicial District's Youthful
Offender Program and the Intensive Supervision Court (Drug Court) in
January, 1999. Polk County's Drug Court is a prison diversion program
designed to divert convicted felons from their apparent destiny, prison.
In 2000, Ms. Livingston joined the National Drug Court Institute as a
faculty member. She spent 2001 traveling the country spreading the good
news about drug courts, facilitating five skills-based and operational
workshops for the Organization. The 2002 goals, along with continuing
her service with NDCI, including founding the Iowa Association of Drug
Court Professionals.

**MIKE LOEFFLER** is an Assistant District Attorney with the Creek
County District Attorney\'s Office in Oklahoma. He graduated with honors
with a BBA in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, Price College
of Business in 1985 and graduated with honors from the University of
Oklahoma College of Law in 1987. Mr. Loeffler also attended the
University of Oklahoma-Oxford University Student Exchange Program in the
United Kingdom at Queen\'s College, Oxford University in 1986.

In addition to the Assistant District Attorney position he has held
since 1990, he has been the Creek County Drug Court Coordinator since
1997 and Chief of the Civil Division of the District Attorney\'s Office
since 1995. Previously, he was in private practice with his own Firm
concentrating on civil, criminal and bankruptcy litigation and with the
Oklahoma Appellate Public Defender\'s Office (1986-1987), and Cleveland
County, Oklahoma Legal Aid (1987) Mr. Loeffler has also been Adjunct
Faculty at the University of Tulsa since 1993.

Mr. Loeffler currently serves as both a Post-Training Coordinator and
Fellow for the National Drug Court Institute. In that capacity, he
conducts process and outcome evaluation with respect to the Drug Court
Program Initiative developed and held jointly with the Drug Court
Program Office, U.S. Department of Justice, and acts as a liaison with
jurisdictions NDCI participating in the DCPI. He also consults with NDCI
on curriculum/program development, including NDCI\'s Drug Court
Prosecutor Training.

**KURT LYNOTT** is currently the Court Liaison for the Lackawanna County
Treatment Court in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Since January 2000, he has
been a member of the Lackawanna County Adult Treatment Court Team. In
this capacity, he acts a both the Law Clerk and the Court Liaison. His
duties include researching and writing advisory opinions for the Team
regarding confidentiality and date of conviction. He also interacts with
local government and law enforcement agencies regarding the treatment
court clients. He is also on the planning teams for the Lackawanna
County Juvenile and Family Treatment courts and the DUI court team which
is currently in the staring phase. Prior to this, he was a Victim
Witness Advocate/Bench Warrant Tracking Clerk at the Lackawanna District
Attorney's Office. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the
University of Scranton in 1992 and his Juris Doctorate from Widener
University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 2002.

**SAMANTHA LYONS** is the Drug Court Coordinator for Montgomery County,
Maryland, where she is currently responsible for planning, developing,
and evaluating the components of both a Juvenile and Adult Drug Court.
Previously, Ms. Lyons was the Clinical Director for the Brooklyn
Treatment Court, located in Kings County Supreme Court, Brooklyn, New
York. As Clinical Director, Ms. Lyons provided clinical supervision and
oversight for the case management and courtroom staff. In this role, she
was responsible to insure that the application of the Drug Court 10 Key
Components was effectively applied to practice, monitored performance to
guarantee program sustainability, and made the necessary modifications
to policies and procedures to make certain quality services were
offered. Ms. Lyons has served as adjunct professor at several Colleges
in the New York City area, providing classroom instruction to
undergraduates in the Schools of Psychology and Sociology. Ms. Lyons has
also worked for Treatment Alternatives To Street Crime (TASC) NYC-LINK
program as the supervisor for the mental health division. Ms. Lyons has
a BA from UCLA, and received an MA in Forensic Psychology in 1997 from
John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

**MITCHELL MACKINEM, PH.D.** is currently the Director for the Richland
County Drug Court, a small rural court in Columbia, South Carolina. He
began both the adult and juvenile courts in this location over 7 years
ago. This is the latest in a long series of experiences in working with
criminal justice and substance abuse. Starting with DUI counseling, Dr.
Mackinem has experience with adult and juvenile residential programs for
offenders, day reporting centers, IOPs and drug treatment courts. Beyond
the delivery of services Dr. Mackinem is involved a variety of training
activities from counseling methods, program evaluation and cultural
competency. Presentations include professional papers at the 7^th^
Annual Drug Court Conference, Mid-South Sociological Association, and
the Academy of Criminal Justice Science. Currently, Dr. Mackinem is
working on a book about the use of discretion within drug court programs
as well as a series of articles on drug court.

**DOUGLAS MACLEAN** is a Probation Officer for the Massachusetts Trial
Court, Bristol Division, Probate and Family Court in Fall River,
Massachusetts. Previously he was a substance abuse specialist with the
Bristol County District Attorney's Office and was responsible for to
educated the Assistant District Attorney's on substance abuse, create
alternatives to incarceration unique to each individual, evaluate
individuals appropriate for treatment, and speaking engagements at
various schools, hospitals, and institutions on substance abuse. Mr.
MacLean also created the first transportation service, funded by the
district attorney's office to provide transportation for court involved
individuals directly from court to residential treatment. Part of his
job as the substance abuse specialist at the District Attorney's Office
was to work directly with both juvenile and adult drug courts. He is
Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of New Bedford
Council on Substance Abuse (NEBCOA). Mr. MacLean holds a BA from the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

**DANIELLE H. MAICHLE** began working as the public defender in Buffalo
City (New York) Court Drug Court in 1997. She serves as the Senior Staff
Attorney in the Public Defender Unit of the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo,
Inc. Prior to her involvement with the Drug Court, Ms. Maichle worked as
a litigator with the Public Defender's Office for 13 years. She is a
1979 graduate of the State University of New York at Albany. Ms. Maichle
earned her J.D. degree from New England School of Law in Boston,
Massachusetts in 1982.

**DAVID MALLORY** is a Probation Officer II for the Butte County
Probation Department in Oroville, California. Mr. Mallory currently
supervising a high intensity DUI enforcement caseload. He participates
in two court dates per week, does field work three times a week, is
currently one of the armed officers and supervises 116 DUI Offenders. He
has worked with both Drug Court and Juvenile Drug Court. He is a member
of the California Narcotic Officers' Association.

**JOHN MARR** is a 1971 graduate of Roseburg High School, in Roseburg,
Oregon. He has a Bachelors degree in Christian Education from Milligan
College and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from the
University of Nevada Las Vegas. Mr. Marr served as an Associate Pastor
with churches in Tennessee and Nevada from 1973 - 1980, as a Probation
Officer/ Institutional Psychologist from 1980 - 1984 and a hospital
administrator from 1984 - 1989. He is currently the Director of Choices
Group, Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada. Choices is an intensive outpatient
drug treatment program with offices in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada.
Choices is the sole source provider for eight Nevada Drug Courts and
serves over 2,000 non-violent drug offenders each year. Choices is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Aspen Youth Services.

Mr. Marr is on the faculty of the National Judicial College in Reno,
Nevada and the National Drug Court Institute. He chaired the treatment
sub-committee of the National Drug Court Standards Committee and
authored the clinical components of the national training curriculum for
Drug Court Judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. He is a principle
trainer on pharmacology and addictive behavior for American University
Office of Justice Programs and the U.S. Department of Justice. He serves
on several federal grant peer-review panels and lectures to between
twenty and thirty professional and educational organizations each year.
He was a principle presenter at the 1998 United Nations International
Symposium on Substance Abuse, the Loughborough International Conference
on American Drug Courts in Loughborough, England and the 2000 session of
the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission. He has worked with
government and community officials in Poland to develop strategies for
dealing with alcohol and heroin abusers and has been invited to return
to provide intensive training in this area and to begin working on
approaches for dealing with domestic violence. He has presented at the
Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. and as part of an
international teaching team for Drug Courts Training in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. He is a technical assistance consultant for the Justice
Management Institute, the Office of Justice Programs, the Drug Courts
Program Office and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

Mr. Marr is the author of professional articles on addictive behavior,
relapse, basic pharmacology of addiction, the relationship between
alcohol and other drugs and wellness model treatment of addictive
behaviors. He developed a complete program on a Christian Approach to
Substance Abuse and works with pastors and government officials in
several U.S. states and Europe on incorporating the faith community into
treatment systems.

**LUIS MARTINEZ** is a Behavioral Health Specialist with the County of
Orange Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Drug Court Clinic in Santa Ana,
CA. Mr. Martinez attended the University of CA at Irvine and has worked
in the field of substance abuse treatment since 1982. Mr. Martinez began
working as a Drug Court counselor in 1995 when the first Drug Court
Program was started in central Orange County. He was instrumental in the
planning and implementation of other Drug Court jurisdictions, including
the North, West and Juvenile justice centers. In May of 2001 he returned
to Central Drug Court to work primarily with the Spanish monolingual
participants and also to serve as the \"aftercare\" counselor.

**Hon. Phyllis McMillen** has been Chief Judge of the 51^st^ District
Court in Waterford, Michigan since 1998. She was a practicing lawyer for
18 years before taking the bench in 1995 as District Court Judge. Judge
McMillen is a faculty member for the Michigan Judicial Institute and
National Drug Court Institute and a lecturer and contributing author for
Institute of Continuing Legal Education.

Judge McMillen is an advisory board member of the Oakland County
Community Corrections and Waterford Coalition for Youth and an academic
advisory board member of the Michigan Judicial Institute. She is a
member of the American Association of University Women and Rotary
International, Waterford and Clarkston Area Chambers of Commerce and is
executive board member of the Clinton Valley Council of Boy Scouts. She
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Michigan State
University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Detroit, School
of Law.

**ANTHONY MESA** is an assistant public defender in the Orange County
Public Defender's Office in Southern California. He has worked as a
public defender in Orange County for over 16 years after spending two
and a half years in private practice. He is currently assigned to the
juvenile branch of the public defenders office, where he is the
supervising attorney for the delinquency unit. He has been involved in
the design and implementation of the Orange County Juvenile Drug Court
Program since November 1998. He previously served as an instructor for
the National Drug Court Institute's public defender training program as
a presenter at previous NADCP national training conferences.

**HON. WILLIAM G. MEYER** was a Denver District Court Judge from 1984
through October 2000. He was the founding judge of the Denver Drug
Court. Judge Meyer has recently taken a position with the Judicial
Arbiter Group as a mediator/arbitrator/settlement judge. Prior to
becoming a judge, he served as First Assistant Attorney General and
Director of the Colorado Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and with the
Denver District Attorney's Office, as well as being in private practice.
He earned his undergraduate degree from the College of Idaho and his
J.D. from the University of Denver. Judge Meyer was chair of the
Standards Committee of the National Association of Drug Court
Professionals which authored "Defining Drug Courts: The Ten Key
Components". He has also chaired the Ethics and Confidentiality
Committee for NADCP. Judge Meyer is a faculty instructor for the
National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the National Judicial College, and
the National Drug Court Institute. In December of 2001, Judge Meyer was
appointed the first Senior Judicial Fellow for the National Drug Court
Institute. Additionally, he has published and presented on evidence,
alternative dispute resolution and intermediate sanctions in various
jurisdictions around the country. He has been awarded the 1999 Special
Award of Merit from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, the 1995 Harry
Tinsely Award from the Colorado Correctional Association, the 1995
Annual Judicial Award from the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center Addiction and Research Treatment Services, the 1994 Special Award
of Merit from the Mile High Counsel on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the 1992
Colorado Chief Probation Officer's Award, and the 1991 Denver Bar
Judicial Excellence Award.

**AMINTA MICKLES** is an independent consultant. She previously worked
for Contra Costa County Health Services Department, Substance Abuse
Services Division. Ms. Mickles was the Drug Court Coordinator/Program
Manager for the Richmond Adult Supervised Treatment And Recovery (STAR)
Drug Court and has worked in this capacity since the courts inception in
January 1997. Prior to the STAR Drug Court, she managed the
Demonstration Project, The Family Recovery Project, which was a Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) grant. Ms. Mickles currently works
with her staff and oversees the substance abuse treatment services. She
develops linkages in the community, monitor the grants goals and
objectives and financial aspects.

Ms. Mickles has received both a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a
Masters in Psychology/Social Work. She is currently working on her
doctorate (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology, (ABD). She is a member of the
Bay Area Association of Black Psychologist, California Association of
Christian Counselors, and a California Association of Marriage and
Family Therapist, and a Consultant for California Association of
Addiction Recovery Resources.

**DENNIS MILLER** has been the Program Coordinator for the Hennepin
County, Drug Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this role he is
responsible for program planning, implementation, and systems
coordination for the nation's largest drug court system. In addiction,
he is the unit supervisor of probation officers and other case
management staff assigned to drug court. Prior to his current position
he was supervisor of the Hennepin County Pretrial Program from
1992-1996. For the past 28-years, Mr. Miller has worked in various
aspects of probation and parole, with both juvenile and adult
populations. During the past 12 years he has helped design and implement
new adult probation programs. Mr. Miller serves as a practitioner
faculty member and consultant for the Adult Drug Court Planning
Initiative, and Regional Research and Evaluation Workshops, sponsored by
the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, in
collaboration with the National Drug Court Institute. Since 1999, he has
served as a peer reviewer for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Drug
Court Discretionary Grant Program. Mr. Miller received a B.A. in
Political Science and Criminal Justice Studies from St. Cloud State
University, MN; and an M.S. in Corrections and Sociology from Minnesota
State University-Mankato, Minnesota.

**Hon. Leslie Miller** was appointed to the Arizona Superior Court in
Pima County in 1985 and has held the positions of Associate Presiding
Judge and Criminal Presiding Judge. Judge Miller previously served as a
Tucson City Court Magistrate and an Assistant Pima County Public
Defender. She was instrumental in establishing Pima County's Drug Court
and presided over the program for its first 4 ½ years.

Judge Miller has served as faculty for judicial training programs for
the National Drug Court Institute and for Adult Drug Court Planning
Workshops for the Drug Court Policy Office. She has been a presenter on
various aspects of Drug Court for the National and Arizona Associations
of Drug Court Professionals as well as numerous other national and local
organizations. She was a member of the Join Together/ABA National Policy
Panel on Ending Discrimination Against People with Alcohol and Drug
Problems.

Judge Miller was the first President of the Arizona Association of Drug
Court Professionals, an organization she helped establish in 2000. She
served as Chair of the National Conference of State Trial Judges of the
American Bar Association and President of the Arizona Judges
Association, the Pima County Bar Association, the Boys and Girls Clubs
of Tucson, La Frontera, a mental health agency, and has served on the
Board of Governors of the State Bar of Arizona and on the executive
board of the National Association of Women Judges. Judge Miller is
presently a member of the board of many local nonprofit organizations
and a Delegate to the House of Delegates of the ABA.

**Randolph Monchick, Ph.D., J.D.** is a consultant in the development,
evaluation and refinement of Justice and Substance Abuse Intervention
Systems. Randy previously served seven years as the Drug Treatment Court
Administrator for the State of North Carolina where he was responsible
for the development, implementation and enhancement of North Carolina's
drug treatment court system. Prior to that commitment, he worked as a
federal criminal defense attorney for the Office of the Federal Public
Defender (EDNC). As a lawyer, college professor and practitioner, he has
lectured extensively in the fields of criminology and sociology with
special emphasis on the administration of justice, juvenile justice,
criminal law, corrections, counseling, substance abuse intervention
strategies, dispute resolution, and evaluation research. His practical
experience runs the gamut from implementing and evaluating innovative
correctional programs in North Carolina to serving as a project
consultant and trainer for court and treatment-based intervention
programs in various states. His direct treatment experience includes
stints as a substance abuse and crisis intervention counselor/trainer
and as the director of a multi-county TASC program. He has served as a
faculty member for an assortment of training organizations, including
the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI), National Judicial College and
Justice Management Institute (JMI). He currently sits on the Board of
Directors of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. He
received his formal education at Florida State University (B.S. and M.S.
in Criminology), Washington State University (Ph.D. in Sociology) and
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (J.D.). He is a member of
both the North Carolina and Florida State Bars.

**VALERIE MOORE** has been the Executive Director of InAct,
Incorporated, in Portland, Oregon. since 1992. InAct, Inc. is the
treatment provider for Sanctions Treatment Opportunity Progress
(S.T.O.P.), which is one of the pioneer Drug Courts. Ms. Moore
coordinated the Multnomah County Drug Court program development with the
Multnomah County Circuit Court, District Attorney, Department of
Community Justice, and Metropolitan Public Defender.

Ms. Moore has made presentations at a variety of state and national
conferences associated with the development of drug courts: speaking
about the relationship between the courts and treatment; managed care
and the impact on drug court programs; and critical issues in the design
and operation of a drug court program.

She was part of a workshop team which developed a comprehensive training
curriculum for treatment providers working in emerging drug courts. For
several years, Ms. Moore has been a peer reviewer for federal drug court
proposals, and faculty for the National Drug Court Training for new drug
court implementation. Further, she has provided technical assistance to
a number of jurisdictions in the early phases of their drug court
programs under the auspices of the National Drug Court Clearing House at
American University.

She was an author of "Sanctions Treatment Opportunities Progress
(S.T.O.P.) Drug Diversion Program," in *Innovative State and Local
Programs, Volume II* (Justice Research and Statistics Association,
Washington, D.C., 1995). She received a Executive Director's Certificate
in Non-Profit Management from Concordia University, Portland, Oregon.
Ms. Moore received her M.B.A. in Business Administration from Marylhurst
University, Marylhurst, Oregon.

**WANDA H. MOORE, Esquire** is a Deputy Public Defender for the Office
of the Public Defender, in Trenton, New Jersey and has served the Public
Defenders Office since 1989. Ms. Moore has been responsible for various
assignments in her office including staffing the Essex County Drug Court
program that opened its doors in May of 1997. As one of the first drug
court public defenders in the state, Ms. Moore was instrumental in the
planning and ongoing development of the Essex County Drug Court program.
Ms. Moore received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in
1983 and her law Degree from Northeastern University School of Law in
1986. In 1999, Ms. Moore received her Masters Degree in Education with a
specialty in conflict resolution from Lesley University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. For her Mater's Thesis, Ms. Moore submitted a qualitative
evaluation of the participants in the Essex County Drug Court entitle
Portraits of the Drug Court Experience: [A View From the Inside of
Addiction]{.underline}. Ms. Moore has been a faculty member for the
National Association of Drug Court Professionals, National Drug Court
Institute and has worked closely with the Justice Management Institute,
National Development and Research Institute and the United States
Justice Department around Drug Courts, cultural competency and other
related topics. In her most recent endeavor, Ms. Moore has been
appointed as the first Drug Court Director for the Office of the Public
Defender. Ms Moore is spearheading the development of a statewide
coordinated strategy and approach to drug courts in the State of New
Jersey using a therapeutic jurisprudence approach. In addition, Ms.
Moore is the Deputy Public Defender of the Intensive Supervision Program
which is an early release program designed with therapeutic
interventions and close monitoring.

**HON. DONALD R. MORAN, Jr.**, was re-elected to a sixth term as Chief
Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. He was appointed
to the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in 1983, having served as a Duval
County Court Judge from 1977 to 1983. Chief Judge Moran has served as an
adult drug court judge since the inception of the Adult Drug Court in
October of 1994. He founded the Juvenile Drug Court and was its
presiding judge from February of 1997 until January of 1999. He was
Chair of the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges in 2001, President of
the National Metropolitan Courts in 2002, and presently serves on the
Trial Court Budget Committee.

Judge Moran is married to Elaina Moody Moran, and has four (4) children,
Richard, Brendan, D'Arcy and Donnie. He has a Bachelors degree from the
University of Kentucky and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of
Florida Law School.

**HON. JAMES MURPHY** retired from the Superior Court of the State of
Washington for Spokane County in 2003 and formed Judicial Meditation
Group, a meditation and arbitration firm with Judge Michael Donohue. He
continues to serve as a Judge Pro Tem for the Spokane Felony Drug Court
and serve as an arbitrator on Drug Appeals for the International Copurt
on Arbitration for Sports. 

His judicial career began in 1977 when he was appointed to the District
Court bench where he served until 1985 at which time he was elected to
the Superior Court bench.  In 1994 a project was begun under the
leadership of Judge Murphy to investigate the then novel approach to
resolution of drug problems in his community.  A drug court planning
group was successful in instituting a felony drug court program under
Judge Murphy\'s supervision which flourishes to this date.

Judge Murphy has served as president of the Washington State Superior
Court Judge\'s Association, Chair of the Board for Court Education,
Board for Judicial Administration, Superior Court Education Committee
and president of the Washington State District and Municipal Court
Judge\'s Association.  The Washington State Bar Association named him as
Judge of the Year in 2003. He has been married to his wife Jill, a 4th
grade teacher, for 34 years and has 2 sons.  He has participated in many
national drug court training programs as a facilitator and instructor.

**HON. SHEILA M. MURPHY** practiced law as a criminal defense attorney
for l9 years before becoming a judge. In Cook County there were judges
serving who were recovering alcoholics. Sheila noticed that her clients
who came before these judges rarely came back to her with a new criminal
case. The judges urged the defendants into l2 step programs, helped them
find jobs and sometimes officiated at their weddings.

As the presiding judge of the Markham courthouse, for seven years, Judge
Murphy tried to incorporate recovery into all courts, not just the
felony and misdemeanor drug

treatment courts. Many cases, such as truancy, paternity, domestic
relations, landlord tenant, and pro se actions involve substance abuse.
Judge Murphy attempted to create a unified court approach so that one
family would have one judge and all problems, from delinquency to drunk
driving could be addressed The National Association of Women Judges
awarded Judge Murphy their distinguished service award for \"courage,
independence and innovation\" as a judge. She is a consultant for the
Justice Department, and adjunct professor at the National Judicial
College and John Marshall Law School. Judge Murphy now serves as a
private judge for mediation and arbitration cases.

**THOMAS NIGHTINGALE** has been in the addictions field since 1975, and
has worked for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance
Abuse Services (OASAS) since 1981. His career has included the provision
and directing of inpatient, outpatient, and crisis services; program
planning and development, need methodology analysis, program funding,
and contract management in concert with local governments. For the past
decade he has worked in the OASAS treatment center system, having
directed two of the thirteen state-operated Addiction Treatment Centers
(ATCs). Currently he is the Director of the Bureau of Addiction
Treatment Centers, overseeing the 13 facility, 652-bed state-operated
system. Mr. Nightingale has been a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance
Abuse Counselor (CASAC) since 1977. Throughout his career he has worked
collaboratively with criminal justice agencies at the state and local
level in the interest of developing programs and services that respond
to the needs of mutual clientele.

**HON. SETH WALKER NORMAN** presently serves as Judge of Division IV of
the Criminal Court for Davidson County, a position that he has held
since his election in 1990. Besides handling a regular full time
criminal docket, Judge Norman originated and presides over the Davidson
County Drug Court. He is president and chairman of the board of the
Nashville Drug Court Support Foundation. He also serves as president of
the Tennessee Association of Drug Court Professionals. For the past 8
years he has served as chair of the Drugs and the Courts Committee for
the Tennessee Judicial Conference.

The Davidson County Drug Court is unique in that it operates its own
residential treatment facility. In 1999, the program moved into a new
three million dollar facility that was built specifically to handle
non-violent felony offenders with substance abuse problems. The facility
accommodates 60 male and 40 female residents in a long-term treatment
program lasting 12 to 18 months. The facility has 6 full time and 6 part
time addiction counselors as well as administrative and health care
staff.

Judge Norman graduated from the Nashville School of Law and was in
general practice for 28 years before becoming a judge.

**EDWARD J. NOWAK** is a public defender for Monroe County in Rochester,
New York. He manages a law office of 50 attorneys who provide mandated
legal services to the poor of Monroe County. His drug court experience
includes working with the Supervising Judge of the Rochester (NY) City
Court (Hon. John Schwartz) and the Monroe County District Attorney (Hon.
Howard Relin) established the first Drug Treatment Court in New York
without the support of any additional government funding. He was
appointed by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye to serve on the New York State
Commission on Drugs and the Court to make recommendations on innovative
ways to confront the cycle of addiction and recidivism. Additionally, he
was the presenter at the first and third Annual Conferences of the New
York Association of Drug Treatment Court Professionals, Inc. He was also
the presenter at the first and second Drug Treatment Court Workshops
sponsored by the Center for Court Innovation.

Mr. Nowak received his BA from the University of Notre Dame and JD from
Albany Law School of Albany New York.

**TONY OCEGUEDA** has been involved with the South County Drug Court
since it began in 1997. Mr. Ocegueda started as a substance abuse
counselor and is now the Program Manager. Before that, he worked as a
facility manager for the Latino men's recovery home where he was able to
initiate a youth group that consisted of family members of the residents
of that program. The youth group worked on family issues, gang
prevention, sex and AOD education. Mr. Ocegueda has been active in
advocating for quality treatment in the Baja region of Mexico.
Under-served populations continue to be his focus. Mr. Ocegueda is a CAS
certified alcohol/drug specialist and is a graduate of San Diego City
College's alcohol and other drug studies. Mr. Ocegueda is a board member
of the California Coalition for Alcohol Probelms. He has been appointed
to the Latino Constituent Committee, which advises the Director of the
Department of Alcohol and Drug Program (ADP) State of California
advocating Latino issues. Mr. Ocegueda has been serving as a faculty
instructor for the National Drug Court Institute since November of 2000.

**ANDREW H. OSBORNE** has been the director of the Training Institute of
the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) since
1994. He has over 20 years of progressive management experience in
curriculum/program design and professional in-service training in the
areas of public health and employment training. Other areas of expertise
include relapse prevention, children of substance abusers, substance
abuse prevention intervention/treatment, mentally ill chemical abusers,
pregnant substance abusers, cultural diversity, states of behavioral
change, sexually transmitted diseases, human sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and
drug pharmacology. Mr. Osborne was formerly the director of Day
Treatment, New York City Department of Probation, and has served as a
consultant for a number of universities and state agencies. Mr. Osborne
has an undergraduate degree from SUNY at Cortland, an MA in education
from New York University, as well as a MA in health education from CUNY
at Lehman.

**Kenneth L. Osborne** is a private consultant in the fields of
substance abuse treatment and municipal management.

Mr. Osborne has worked in the field of addiction medicine and behavioral
health for over 16 years. Mr. Osborne holds state, national and
international certification as an Addictions Counselor and is a
Certified Public Manager. Mr. Osborne has worked extensively in the
field of criminal justice treatment services for drug involved offenders
in a various capacities providing National and International staff
training and technical assistance He has served as adjunct faculty at
Texas Southern University and the University of Houston for the
Substance Counselor certification program, and serves as Faculty to the
National Drug Court Institute and the National Association of Drug Court
professionals.

Mr. Osborne is a graduate of the Center for Excellence in Municipal
Management at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and was
accepted into the Senior Government Executives Program at Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in the summer of 2001.

**Fred C. Osher, M.D.** is a community psychiatrist with clinical and
research interests focusing on the co-occurrence of mental and substance
use disorders, and persons with these disorders within the justice
system. Dr. Osher is the Director of the Center for Behavioral Health,
Justice, and Public Policy and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at
the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has a long history of
public sector service at local, State, and Federal levels.

Previous positions include: Director of Community Psychiatry at the
University of Maryland; an appointment as member of President Clinton's
Task Force on Health Reform; Acting Director of the Division of
Demonstration Programs at the Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA;
and Deputy Director of the Office of Programs for the Homeless Mentally
Ill at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Osher has published
extensively in the areas of homelessness, community psychiatry,
co-occurring mental and addictive disorders, and effective approaches to
persons with behavioral disorders within justice settings. He received
his Bachelors of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1974 and his
Doctor of Medicine from Wayne State University in 1978.

**Susanne L. Pastuschek** began her career in the criminal justice
system as one of the first female Police Officers in Georgia. She worked
undercover narcotics and regular patrol duty. After living in several
other states she settled in California and began working in the Redlands
Drug Court since its inception in 1997. She established linkages with
law enforcement, employers, dentists, apartment complexes and created a
community service project for unemployed participants that contributes
approximately \$3,000.00 a month in service hours to the community. In
1998 she started a yearly fund raiser golf tournament at the Redlands
Country Club and in 2001 she formed her own non-profit organization.
This 501(c)(3) has twelve board members from the community. In January
1999 she designed an "adjunct drug court program" with the University of
Redlands. This is a "fast track" drug court program for students with
administrative sanctions. In April 2000 she added a Probation/School
Police component designed to focus on how well the children of the
participants are doing in school. In 2001 she acquired a 'research
number' from the Department of Justice and then obtained the services of
Dr. Cheryl Rickabaugh to prepare statistical analysis of the program.
She received the 'Distinguished Service Medal' and 'Woman of the Year'
Award for her work in Drug Court. In October 2003 she helped design and
implement the first Domestic Violence Court program based on the Drug
Court Model in San Bernardino County. Ms. Pastuschek teaches
Administration of Justice classes at Crafton Hills College and San
Bernardino Valley Community College. She has a BA in Psychology and
Language and a MFA in English/ Creative Writing.

**LINDA PENNER** is the Fresno County Probation Adult Division Director.
Ms. Penner has twenty-two years in the criminal justice system, which
includes six years supervising sex offenders in the community, as well
as eight years with the Fresno County Victim Witness Program
specializing in working with victims of sexual assault as they navigated
through the criminal justice system. In 1982, Ms. Penner was recognized
for her dedicated service to sexual assault victims by the California
Sexual Assault Investigators Association. In addition, she has had
management responsibility for the NET, Victim/Witness, Drug Court
Mini-Grant, Post Sentence Drug Court, PEEP, and DIVA grant funded
programs.

**Roger H. Peters, Ph.D.** is a Professor and Associate Chair in the
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the Louis de la Parte
Florida Mental Health Institute (FMHI), University of South Florida,
where he has been a faculty member since 1986. He serves as Coordinator
of the FMHI Collaborative on Substance Abuse Treatment and Policy
Research, and is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of
Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling. Dr. Peters is the Principal
Investigator and Director for several grant projects, including the
SAMHSA-funded Suncoast Practice and Research Collaborative (SPARC)
project. Dr. Peters has served since 1995 as the lead consultant to the
National GAINS Center for People with Co-occurring Disorders in the
Justice System. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the
Florida State University, following completion of a pre-doctoral
internship at the University of North Carolina, School of Medicine in
association with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Dr. Peters has pursued research, consultation, and training initiatives
involving substance abuse

treatment within the criminal justice system. He has published
frequently in major journals, served

on federal expert panels, grant and document reviews, national advisory
boards and committees,

and has served as a consultant to AJA, CSAT, CMHS, NIC, NIJ, NIDA, OJP,
and other federal and

state agencies. Dr. Peters recently served on the Board of Directors of
the National Association of

Drug Court Professionals. He currently serves as Chair and Co-editor of
the SAMHSA/CSAT

Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) on "Substance Abuse Treatment for
Adults in the Criminal

Justice System".

Research, consultation, and training efforts have focused on six
interrelated areas within the justice system: (1) treatment of dually
diagnosed offenders, (2) relapse prevention strategies, (3) screening
and assessment approaches, (4) evaluation of treatment program
effectiveness, (5) alternative case processing approaches, such as drug
courts, and (6) knowledge adoption and application strategies. Major
research, consultation, and training activities have been conducted
within the context of jail, prison, courts, community corrections, and
juvenile justice settings. Clinical activities have included forensic
assessment at the Forensic Evaluation and Consultation Center;
supervision of postdoctoral fellows, predoctoral interns, and graduate
students; and outpatient treatment of sex offenders and substance
abusers.

**Jane E. Pfeifer, M.P.A.** is a private consultant in the justice
field, Ms. Pfeifer provides professional training, curriculum
development, grant writing, community resource development, and
technical assistance to public, private and non-profit agencies.  One of
her major projects currently is with the National Drug Court Institute
as Post-Training Coordinator for the Drug Court Planning
Initiative-Family Dependency Treatment Court Training Project.   Ms.
Pfeifer previously worked for the Butte County California Probation
Department for 11 years.  She began as a counselor and supervisor at the
Juvenile Hall, and later worked as a Probation Officer in the Adult
Intake Unit, Victim Witness Unit and as the lead officer in the Adult
Drug Court Unit.  As a practitioner, her background includes case
management, community supervision and juvenile justice.  Ms. Pfeifer has
also supervised adult offenders in the ReVia (Naltrexone) Project D.U.I.
Court.  From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Pfeifer worked for the Superior Court of
California, County of Butte and held the position of Drug Court Program
Manager for the Butte County, California Drug Courts (Adult and
Juvenile.)  In this role Ms. Pfeifer was instrumental in implementing
the Juvenile Drug Court Program, which began operation in 1999. Ms.
Pfeifer has provided training; technical assistance and consultation for
the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, the National Drug
Court Institute, California Standards and Training for Corrections, The
Boys and Girls Club of Northern California, California Judicial
Education and Research, the Justice Management Institute, the National
Drug Council of Bermuda as well as others. Ms. Pfeifer holds a dual
bachelor's degree in Social Work, and Psychology from California State
University-Chico and a Master\'s degree in Public Administration.

**MARK PICKLE** is the Chief Probation Officer for the Bernalillo Count
Metropolitan Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prior to this appointment
in October of 2000, he was the Program Director for the court's DWI/Drug
Court Program. He was with the drug court program from its inception and
was instrumental in establishing it as one of the first DWI/Drug Courts
and the first DUI Mentor Drug Court site.

Mr. Pickle has 15 years experience in the criminal justice system after
receiving his degree from the University of Texas at El Paso in that
field. He continues to be actively involved with the DWI/Drug Court
Program in Albuquerque and as a faculty member of the National Drug
Court Institute.

**HANK PIROWSKI** serves with the Buffalo City (New York) Court. He is
experienced in program management, program development, case processing,
case management, management information systems development and grant
writing, and he is credited with the design and implementation of the
nationally recognized Court Outreach Unit: Referral and Treatment
Service (C.O.U.R.T.S. PROGRAM-US Conferences of Mayors "City of
Livability Award," 1995). Mr. Pirowski was instrumental in the creation
of the first drug court in western New York, and he serves as the
Buffalo Drug Court coordinator. He also led the team that developed the
Buffalo/Jacksonville Drug Court Management Information System. He has
received numerous public service awards, most notably for his work with
inner city youth.

**REBECCA S. POTTER** has been a Public Defender for the Maricopa County
since 1989. She supervises DUI Unit, is a staff member of DUI Court, has
litigated numerous felony jury trials, has extensive pre-trial motion
practice and knowledge and experience with accident reconstruction.
Prior to her position at Maricopa County, she was in Private Practice
from 1983 to 1989. Ms. Potter is a member of City of Peoria Public
Defender Review Committee and a member of the National Drug Court
Professionals. She is a Judge for Arizona State University College of
Law First Year Moot Court Competition and new lawyer training for Office
of Public Defender. Ms. Potter graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor
of Science degree from Arizona State University in 1980, and with a
Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1983.

**HON. LOUIS J. PRESENZA** has been a Judge of the Philadelphia
Municipal Court since 1982. He was retained for office in 1989, 1995,
and 2001 with more than 95% approval rating from a plebiscite conducted
by the Philadelphia Bar Association. In May 1996 and 1997, by Order of
the President Judge, he was appointed Supervising Judge of the Criminal
Division of Municipal Court. During his tenure he formulated and chaired
the Philadelphia Treatment Court Planning and Implementation Committee
in December 1995 and, in April 1997, established the first drug
treatment court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In January 1999,
his colleagues elected him President Judge.

During his twenty-one years on the bench, Judge Presenza has chaired or
co-chaired many committees, panels, commissions and boards that
addressed issues of preliminary arrangement, statewide automation,
pretrial release guidelines, video conferencing, prison population
management, and alternatives to incarceration. Judge Presenza is
frequently a guest speaker at many national symposiums lecturing on drug
court policies and initiatives and serves as a faculty member for the
United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and the
National Drug Court Institute. He is also serving his second term as
President of the Pennsylvania Association of Drug Court Professionals
and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of
Drug Court Professionals.

Judge Presenza is the recipient of many awards from professional
organizations including the Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy,
Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges, the Philadelphia Bar
Association, the Justinian Society and the Lawyers' Club of
Philadelphia. He is a graduate of St. Joseph's College and Villanova
University School of Law.

**SGT. VANESSA PRICE** has been employed with the Oklahoma City Police
Department for 12 years. In May of 1998 she was selected as the first
Drug Court Liaison Officer to the newly implemented Oklahoma County Drug
Court Program. She joined as was very active in the Oklahoma State Drug
Court Association where she worked with other Drug Court Programs on a
state level. In 1999, she was nominated and elected as the president of
the State Association where she served one term.

During her term as president, while working with other Board members she
was able to secure 3.5 million dollars in funding for Drug Court
Programs statewide. This funding enabled courts to hire administrators
for their programs and provide additional services to the participants.
In the same year, she was named as the Kiwanis Association Police
Officer of the Year because of her efforts with the Drug Court Program.

Recently, Woman and the Badge spent two weeks with Sgt. Price and her
partner and they will be the subjects of an episode of the show. The
show will highlight the female perspective of law enforcement and focus
on two areas that Sgt. Price work in, Clandestine Methamphetamine Labs
and Drug Courts.

**VALERIE RAINE** is the Director of drug treatment projects at the
Center for Court Innovation. She assists the Honorable Joseph J.
Traficanti's Jr. in developing drug courts across New York State, and
serves as the Chairperson of Judge Traficanti's Curriculum and Training
Committee for the New York State Courts Drug Treatment Program. She also
oversees numerous national technical assistance projects which are
supported by the Drug Courts Program Office. From 1996 to 2000, she was
project director of the Brooklyn Treatment Court, where she helped
develop and manage New York City's first drug treatment court.
Previously, she worked for the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense
Division in Kings County, where she was appointed attorney-in-charge in
1994. She is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, where she sits on the Council on Criminal Justice. Ms. Raine
received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1997 and a J.D. from the
University of Virginia in 1982.

**DENNIS A. REILLY** is a Court Planner with the State of Connecticut
Court Operations Division assisting in the administration of drug courts
in Connecticut. Mr. Reilly has worked since 1983 in the Connecticut
Judicial Branch as a Special Deputy Sheriff, a Trial Court Clerk, a
Pretrial Services Officer, and an Adult Supervision Officer. Dennis was
also a founding team member of the first two drug courts in the State of
Connecticut in New Haven and Fairfield Counties. He is a graduate of the
University of Connecticut, the University of Denver College of Law and
the University of Amsterdam School for Executive Development in
International Relations. Mr. Reilly also previously worked as a Project
Director at the National Drug Court Institute for the DCPI Adult
Planning Workshops.

**DAWSON RHOAD, JR.** is a Probation/Parole Officer II with the North
Carolina Department of Correction in Wilmington, North Carolina. In
1999, Mr. Rhoad was assigned to the Special Operations Unit which
handles all the specialized caseloads in the county. For almost three
years he supervised high risk domestic violence cases and was an active
member of the New Hanover County Domestic Violence Advocacy Council. In
June, 2002 he was reassigned to handle two specialized caseloads: Day
Reporting and Drug Treatment Court. His duties as the Drug Court officer
are to enforce all conditions of the program. This includes monitoring
curfews, providing drug screens, ensuring treatment compliance, and
other similar functions. In addition to his specialized caseload, Mr.
Rhoad is a certified general instructor. He also holds a specialized
certification as an OC Pepper Spray instructor. He provides yearly
in-service training within his Department on subjects such as Arrest,
Search and Seizure, Violence in the Workplace, and Interviewing
Techniques. He has provided training in his Department's Automated
Violation Report Process and in a new pilot project called Automated
Case Management. He has also recently become certified to teach the
Cognitive Behavioral Instruction course "Thinking for a Change." Mr.
Rhoad graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with
a concentration in Criminal Justice from North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

**Ralph G. Rodgers** is currently a Court Manager assigned to the
Management Services Division of the Superior Court of California, County
of Orange. He is responsible for the administrative coordination of the
Court=s Continuity of Operation Plan, staffing of select judicial
working groups, and special report projects. He is also an adjunct
faculty lecturer at California State University - Long Beach in the
Criminal Justice Department, teaching lower and upper division courses.

He has worked for the Superior Court for the past seven and one-half
years, previously he was responsible for the planning and implementation
of the adult drug courts and the PC1210 mandated drug treatment program
at each of the court=s justice centers. He was the project manager for
two (2) drug courts formal evaluation contracts and also for the drug
court automated data collection system contract. He is a past chair of
the Orange County Drug Court Oversight Committee (DCOC), charged with
formulating interagency policy and direction for the local drug courts.
He is also a past member of the Orange County PC1210 Interagency
Oversight Committee.

Prior to his present position, Mr. Rodgers worked for a total of 27
years in Los Angeles County with the Superior Court and the Probation
Department. He held the positions of probation officer, court
investigator, supervising investigator, and program manager. During the
last three years, as a program manager with the Probation Department, he
represented the department on the interagency committee charged with the
responsibility of planning and implementing Los Angeles County=s initial
drug courts. Four drug courts were implemented during that period. He
also served for 15 years (1981-1996) as adjunct faculty with the
Administration of Justice Program at Long Beach Community College.

Mr. Rodgers is a member of the National Association of Drug Court
Professionals (NADCP); the California Association of Drug Court
Professionals (CADCP) as a Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Member; the California Judicial Council Center for Judicial Education
(CJER), Drug Court Education/ Curriculum Committee; and is currently on
the faculty for the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI), facilitating
OJP/DCPO planning grantee training workshops. He previously served as a
member of the Orange County Methamphetamine Taskforce, as a resource
member of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) PC1210 Statewide
Workgroup, and as a OJP/DCPO federal grants peer reviewer. He is listed
in the 2002 edition of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.

Mr. Rodgers received his B.A. in Sociology from California State
University at Long Beach and his M.A. in Sociology (Criminal Justice /
Corrections) from Pepperdine University.

**HON. ROBERT T. RUSSELL, JR.** is a graduate of Howard University
School of Law and Morris Brown College. He was first elected in 1991 as
Associate Judge for Buffalo City Court. He was instrumental in the
creation of Buffalo's Drug Treatment Court and serves as its Presiding
Judge.

He is the Chairmen of the National Association of Drug Court
Professionals Inc., and also serves as the President of the New York
State Association of Drug Treatment Court Professional Inc. He was
appointed by New York State Chief Judge Judith Kaye, to serve on the New
York State commission on Drugs and the Courts and on the Chief Judge's
Criminal Law Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Advisory
Committee for the Unified Court System Statewide Implementation of Court
Supervised Drug Treatment and on the Training and Curriculum Committee
for New York State's Drug Treatment Court Initiative.

**SGT. VERN SALLEE** is a seven year veteran of the Chula Vista Police
Department. In 1998, Sgt. Sallee was assigned to be a liaison Officer to
the South Bay Drug Court which was administered by Judge Susan Finlay at
the time. The South Bay Drug Court is a mult-jurisdictional court which
services three cities and unincorporated areas of the South Bay region
of San Diego County; making coordination of a law enforcement resources
an important aspect to the success of the Drug Court. While an officer,
Sgt. Sallee participated in Drug Court during the initial formation of
the Drug Court Team. He participated in team meetings, helped create a
Drug Court policy manual, conducted home visits and compliance
inspections, and followed up on any field work. The Chula Vista Police
Department continues to actively participate in the South Bay Drug Court
and its mission.

**KATHLEEN SCOTT** is an intensive probation officer with the Eaton
County District Court in Charlotte, Michigan. Ms. Scott is a Certified
Criminal Justice Professional (CCJP) through the Michigan Certification
Board for Addiction Professionals. She is a member of the National
Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP). Ms. Scott has attended
numerous seminars with various topics such as Multi-Cultural Issues,
Suicide Risk Assessment, Screening, Assessment and Diagnostic Tools,
A.S.A.M. and Patient Placement Criteria/DSM-IV, HIV and AIDS Training,
The Twelve Steps, Ethics, Case Management and Repeat Offender Laws. She
was a speaker at Model Drug Court Training for criminal justice
professionals in their preliminary phase of implementing a Drug Court.
Topics discussed have included case management, drug screening,
treatment aspects, sanctions, and financial concerns. Ms. Scott
graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a
Minor in Sociology from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Michigan.

**CHARLES S. SHARP** has been the elected Commonwealth's Attorney for
the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia for the past fourteen years. He is
also the chief prosecutor for the Rappahannock Regional Drug Treatment
Court which serves the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania and King
George as well as the City of Fredericksburg. He currently holds office
as Past President of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth Attorneys
and Chairman of the Commonwealth Attorneys Services Council, a state
agency which coordinates and supervises training for Virginia's
prosecutors. He previously served as the first President of the Virginia
Drug Court Association. He currently serves as a member of the
Governor's Task Force to Combat Drunk Driving in the Commonwealth of
Virginia. Mr. Sharp received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt
University and his law degree from the University of Virginia. He has
served as a facilitator for drug court teams around the country and has
conducted the drug court prosecutor training program.

**JANIECE E. SIEGERIST** is currently CEO of National Assessment and
Developmental Services, a corporation, which provides training,
consulting, and curriculum design services to criminal justice
organizations. Ms. Siegerist has over 20 years of experience in criminal
justice including work with the courts, defense counsel, prosecutors,
law enforcement and corrections. She is a Certified Peace Officer in the
State of Oklahoma, and has administered law enforcement training
programs including Basic Peace Officer and Correctional Employee
Training Academics. She has an extensive history as a classroom trainer,
including the development and delivery of Continuing Legal Education
training for the Oklahoma Bar Association. She has developed many
programs for leadership and organizational development, and has provided
direct training in leadership and team building in the field of criminal
justice. She is a fun and inspirational presenter who energizes trainees
through the use of humor and motivational strategies. She is frequently
engaged in providing public speaking and training programs for community
clubs and organizations on topics as varied as "Achieving a Balanced
Life Style", and "A Humorous View of the Developmental Stages of
Children."

**KARYN SINUNU** is the Assistant District Attorney for the Santa Clara
County District Attorney's Office. She supervises 43 attorneys, manages
hiring for attorney staff, coordinates media relations for attorney
staff, supervises the Santa Clara County Certification Program for Adult
Drug and Alcohol Residential Facilities. Additionally, she supervises
outlying offices in San Martin, Palo, Alto and Sunnvale.

**HON. KIM A. SKIEVASKI** has been an active member of the legal
community of Pensacola for over twenty years. He is married to the
former Janice Kelly, who is also an attorney, and they have one son,
Felix.

He received his B.A. Magnum Cum Laude from Florida State University in
1978 and in 1981 received his Juris Doctor with honors from Florida
State University College of Law. Prior to completion of his formal
education he served in the United States Navy from 1972 to 1976.

In 1982 he was admitted to the practice of law. He has practiced civil
trial work with the Pensacola law firm of Emmanuel, Sheppard and Condon
and also served as an Assistant State Attorney for the First Judicial
Circuit.

In 1990 he was elected without opposition as circuit court judge for the
First Judicial Circuit and is now in his third term. Since 1996 he has
served as administrative judge for Escambia County. In addition to his
regular judicial and administrative duties he voluntarily presides over
both Teen Court and Drug Court. He also has been designated by the
Florida Supreme Court as a mentor judge.

He has been active with the Conference of Circuit Judges on the
education committee and has served as the District Representative for
the Conference. As an adjunct professor at Pensacola Junior College he
has taught criminal law courses since 1992.

In February 2003 he was elected by his peers as Chief Judge of the First
Judicial Circuit and will take over that position on July 1, 2003.

**DEANA R. SLANE** graduated from Western Michigan University in 1971
with a BS in Behavioral Psychology and Sociology. She was hired as a
jail matron in Berrien County, Michigan in 1971. She became the first
female in Berrien County, Michigan to graduate from the Michigan Law
Enforcement Officers Training Academy in 1975. In 1977 Ms. Slane began
her career working for the Michigan Department of Corrections as a
Probation Agent. In that capacity, she became a charter team member of
the Kalamazoo Substance Abuse Diversion Program (SADP) in 1991, serving
as the Department of Corrections liaison to the Drug Court until May
2000.

SADP was the first all female drug court in the country. In 1998 she
began also working with the Men's Drug Court Team. Ms. Slane retired
from the Department of Corrections on July 1, 2002. Currently she is the
Project Coordinator for the Kalamazoo Integrated Information Management
Systems Project (K-JIIMS), a cooperative Justice agencies project to
integrate disparate Justice systems. Deana has served as faculty for
NDCI Drug Court Trainings since March 2000.

**TIM SMITH** was the Program Coordinator at the San Bernardino Drug
Court from 1994 to July 1^st^, 1999. It was one of the first
seven-mentor drug court sites. As of July 1^st^, 1999, he was promoted
to Criminal Justice Division Manager for Mental Health Systems, Inc.,
and now does Administrative Oversight for thirteen drug courts, three in
San Diego County, four in San Bernardino County, two in Santa Barbara
County one in San Luis Obispo County and one in Fresno County. Mr. Smith
also does Administrative Oversight for a County Probation Programs,
seven Federal Probation Programs, and the Centralized Testing Program in
San Diego and two DUI programs. He continues to work with NDCI and NADCP
in the training of new drug courts. He has done some consultant work
with American University involving drug courts within the United States.

**JOAN STEIN** has been the Deputy District Attorney for the County of
San Diego for over 21 years. The last five years she has been Chief of
the Juvenile Branch Office which prosecutes juvenile offenses from the
entire country. We have approximately 20 Deputy District Attorneys'
serving in this Branch.

Four years ago Ms. Stein served on the original San Diego Drug Court
Committee which began the design of our now well-established Juvenile
Drug Court. She has attended National Drug Court and Juvenile Drug Court
Conferences almost yearly. In addition, she has been involved in local
trainings on issues regarding teen and adult drug use and addiction. She
serves on the San Diego Juvenile Drug Court Steering Committee and on
the Operations Committee of our Juvenile Drug Court Team.

**MARILYN G. STEIN** is Principal of MGS Consulting in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. As a Pennsylvania DUI Court Consultant, Ms. Stein works
with the PA Department of Transportation and grant funding from NHTSA,
responsible for assisting County Courts to design and implement DUI
Courts. She is also a Pennsylvania DUI Association Master Trainer to
design and facilitate *train the trainer* programs for Alcohol Highway
Safety School (AHSS) Instructor Certification that adheres to
legislative mandates for DUI offender education and design and
facilitate recertification training programs for AHSS instructors. Prior
to becoming a private consultant, Ms. Stein worked for the County of
Lancaster for 23 years as a Probation Officer working with DUI
offenders. During her tenure, she established a DUI Council to design
and implement DUI prevention programs throughout the area. She also
implemented the use of Victim Impact Panels. Ms. Stein is a member of
the Pennsylvania DUI Association and formerly served on the Board of
Directors for the Pennsylvania DUI Association. She is an adjunct
professor for Harrisburg Area Community College. Ms. Stein graduated
from Millersville University with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and
graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Masters of Education
degree in Training and Development.

**JOSEPH STELMA** is the chief deputy court administrator and the
coordinator of the adult and juvenile drug courts for the Fourth
Judicial Circuit of Florida. He serves as a consultant/facilitator to
the National Association of Drug Court Professionals/National
Association of Drug Court Institute, American University, National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, U.S. Department of
Justice/Office of Justice Programs and the Justice Management Institute.
Mr. Stelma's background includes 25 years with the Jacksonville
Sheriff's Office. He graduated from the FBI National Academy and
received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Southern Illinois
University of Carbondale.

**Hon. Darrell Stevens** is a judge of the Butte County Superior Court
in Chico, California, and was appointed to the bench in 1989 by Governor
George Deukmejian. Judge Stevens was the founding judge of, and presided
over, his court's Drug Court, Juvenile Drug Court, Domestic Violence
court , HIDE court (High Intensity DUI Enforcement), and Proposition 36
court. Judge Stevens continues to serve as judge of Butte County's Drug
Court, which has been recognized as an NADCP/COPS Mentor site since
1998. For his leadership on innovative court programs, such as the
court's graffiti eradication, mediation, alcohol treatment programs, and
downtown cleanup project, Judge Stevens has been awarded the Ralph Kleps
Award by the California Judicial Council in six different years.

Judge Stevens has been honored for his community work in the form of the
Peacemaker of The Year award by the North Valley Mediation Center,
Citizen of the Year by the Chico Lions Club, Making a Difference For
Women Award by Soroptomist International, Community Service Award by the
Chico Area Chamber of Commerce, and Chico Boys and Girls Club Board
Member Emeritus Award, among others. He serves on a number of community
boards and advisory committees in Butte County.

Judge Stevens currently serves as Chair of the California Judicial
Council's Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee as well as
Chair of the Judicial Council's Proposition 36 Implementation Workgroup.
Judge Stevens is also a member of the NDCI subcommittee dealing with DUI
courts.

**Carol Stiles** has been Probation and Parole Officer since April 1994.
She started participating in drug court in 1997 and currently carries a
large drug court caseload. Prior to that she worked at Northpoint
Training Center and Roederer Correctional Complex in the Boot Camp
Program.

**James J. Stoker, Sr.** is currently the Program Director for the
Bernalillo County Metropolitan DWI/Drug Court in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. In this capacity he directs the supervision services and
coordinates contractor services for this specialty drug court. He also
coordinates the efforts of the program as the DWI Mentor Court for the
National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

Mr. Stoker graduated from Barnes Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1979. He has over twenty-two years of experience in
healthcare administration with primary emphasis on behavioral health
services. Prior to founding his own company, he developed and directed
specialized hospital inpatient, residential and outpatient facilities.

He was the founder and C.E.O. of Behavioral CareOptions, Inc., which
provided specialized corrections oriented treatment services for felony,
misdemeanor and juvenile drug court programs, as well as, offenders
under Federal, State and local supervision. Following the sale of
Behavioral CareOptions, Mr. Stoker managed several programs providing
community corrections, misdemeanor supervision and treatment services
for a national private corrections corporation. He also served as the
corporation's national expert on drug and DUI courts.

**MICHAEL STRINGER** is a consultant of Michael J. Stringer & Associates
in Columbus, Ohio. Previously he was with the Ohio Department of Alcohol
& Drug Addiction Services as Chief of Division of Justice Services,
Division of Program Planning and Division of Special Programs. During
his drug court experience, Mr. Stringer sponsored and provided funding
for the Drug Court Training workshop in Ohio with funding later expanded
by the Governor and Legislature, fostered development of first drug
court teams by organizing staff follow up and technical assistance,
conducted a series of drug court workshops with the Ohio Supreme Court
and organized collaboration among staff of the Supreme Court, ODADAS and
the Ohio Judicial Conference resulting in more drug courts per capita
than any other state (57 in 2002), initiated planning and funding of
Ohio's first Family Drug Courts and funded Ohio's first court for
substance abuse mentally ill. Mr. Stringer is a member of Congress State
Drug Court Associations, Ohio Supreme Court Mental Health Initiative
Committee, National Criminal Justice Association, Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Correction Substance Abuse Advisory Board, organizing
trustee and Board Member of Ohio Association of Drug Court Professionals
and Board of the Ohio Community Corrections Organization.

**HONORABLE RICHARD A. STROPHY** is the judge for the Thurston County
Superior Court in Olympia, Washington. Prior to his position as judge,
he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Washington
from 1976-1977. For the next nine years, he served as Chief Criminal
Prosecuting Attorney for Thurston County followed by two years as Chief
Civil Deputy.

Judge Strophy served as the court's Administrative Judge for six years
and chairperson for the State Committee on Trial Court Performance
Standards for three years. He recently served two years as Chair of the
Thurston County Law and Justice Council and also serves as the
Washington State Superior Court Judges' Association representative to
the Washington State Law and Justice Advisory Council. He is a past
president and board member of the Olympia area YMCA Board of Directors
and participates in numerous charitable and civic activities. Judge
Strophy served over 28 years in the Washington Army National Guard as
its State Judge Advocate and only certified military judge. Judge
Strophy graduated from Seattle University and in 1970 achieved a Doctor
of Law degree at Gonzaga School of Law.

**JULIANNE SYLVA** has been a prosecutor in Santa Clara County,
California since 1990. She has been assigned to the Misdemeanor,
Narcotics, Felony, Motions, and Drug Treatment Court Teams. In Drug
Treatment Court she worked before and after the passage of Proposition
36 and was on the local implementation team to work within the statute
while maintaining consistency with a drug court model. She also
supervised three investigators assigned to monitor local drug and
alcohol recovery homes (also referred to as "sober living environments")
and drug treatment facilities (also referred to as "primary treatment").
The investigators in this program work to ensure that the service
providers who run these homes followed a local set of guidelines that
work to ensure client and community safety. Currently, Julianne is
assigned to the Child Abduction Unit.

**W. CLINTON TERRY, III, Ph.D.** is an associate professor of the
Criminal Justice Program at Florida International University. He holds a
Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara
and was a DAAD Fellow at the University of Goettingen in Goettingen,
Germany. He has taught criminology and criminal justice at the
California State University at Fresno and at the University of Florida
before joining the faculty at Florida International University. His
primary field of specialization is police organization and behavior. He
has also done extensive work in the area of court specialization,
specifically within the area of drug courts. Dr. Terry is an honorary
member of the International Police Association (IPA), a Faculty and
Research Associate of Southeast Florida Center on Aging, Florida
International University, a member of the Advisory Board of the Florida
Statistical Analysis Center at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
in Tallahassee, Florida, and a member of the Board of Directors of the
National Association of Drug Court Professionals located in Alexandria,
Virginia.

Dr. Terry is the author of ***Policing Society: An Occupational View**,*
and ***The Early Drug Courts: Case Studies in Judicial Innovation**.* He
has written on a wide variety of police topics, mostly focusing upon the
organization of police departments and behavior of officers, which have
appeared in such journals as the ***Journal of Management Science and
Policy Analysis*, *Journal of Police Science and Administration*,
*American Journal of Police ***as well as the ***Encyclopedia of Police
Science***. Dr. Terry has also written extensively about drug courts.

**JEFFREY E. THOMA** is the Public Defender for Mendocino County,
California, where since January 1997; he has directed a staff of 13
attorneys, in an office with an annual workload of about 8,800 cases. He
has been a member of the Drug Court Management Team in Mendocino County
since his appointment, very soon after Drug Court began there, and since
that time, Drug Court has expanded to Juvenile Court and added a Coastal
Drug Court, and the programs have flourished. He has appeared before the
United States, California, and Nevada Supreme Courts; and has
specialized in capital litigation and DNA cases over the past ten-plus
years. He served as a commissioner on the United States Department of
Justice's Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence from 1997-2001, and
has lectured and been published on this subject and others nation-wide.

He presently sits on the Board of Directors for the Northern California
Innocence Project at Santa Clara School of Law, as well as on the Board
of Governors of California Attorney for Criminal Justice. He is also a
faculty member at the Death Penalty College at Santa Clara University
School of Law, and at the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy at
California Western School of Law. He formerly worked as a Deputy Public
Defender for San Diego (CA), Orange (CA), and Clark (NV) counties, and
as a Deputy District Attorney in Humboldt County (CA).

**Darryl P. Turpin** has worked in the substance abuse and criminal
justice fields for approximately 18 years, nine of those years in the
Drug Court setting. He is founder and CEO of Turpin Consulting Group,
located in his hometown of Louisville Kentucky. Additionally, Mr. Turpin
serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Drug
Court Professionals (NADCP). He is also the Chairperson of Thurgood
Marshall Action Coalition (TMAC).

Most recently, Mr. Turpin was the Branch Manager of Program Development
for the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice. He provided oversight
to various programs across the state of Kentucky, including the
coordination of Prevention Councils, Mentoring Programs, Faith-Based
Initiatives and Disproportionate Minority Confinement.

Mr. Turpin has also served as faculty for the National Association of
Drug Court Professionals and Drug Court Institute, the National Council
for Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the Kentucky School of Alcohol and
Drug Studies, National Black Addictions Institute and the International
Treating People of Color Conference. He has served as consultant to
American University, National Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes
(TASC), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and the Bureau of
Justice Assistance.

Mr. Turpin received a bachelor's degree in social work counseling, from
Kentucky State University and is a Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor
(CADC). He is currently attending Kentucky State University where he is
pursuing a Master's degree in Public Administration.

**Carol Venditto** has held the position of New Jersey's Statewide Drug
Court Manager since January 2002. She is responsible for coordinating
the State of New Jersey's Adult Drug Court Implementation Project. Prior
to this appointment, she held the position of Assistant Criminal
Division Manager in the New Jersey Superior Court, Union County since
1994 and functioned as the Drug Court Program Director since the program
began in that jurisdiction in 1998. She began working for the Judiciary
in 1981 as Probation Officer in the Adult Criminal Supervision Unit. Ms.
Venditto currently serves as the chair of the Committee of New Jersey
Drug Court Coordinators and was instrumental in the preparation of the
State of New Jersey's Statewide Drug Court Manual. She has served as
faculty for the National Drug Court Institute's Comprehensive Drug Court
Coordinator Training Program and the Drug Court Planning Initiative
Training Program funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. She has
been a speaker for the National Association of Drug Court Professional's
Annual Training Conference and has conducted numerous workshops and
presentations on drug court throughout the State of New Jersey. Ms.
Venditto obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Montclair State
University in 1979 and a Masters in Public Administration from Seton
Hall University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, in 1998.

**[Terrance D. Walton]{.smallcaps}**, Terrence D. Walton is the
Treatment Branch Manger for the federal government\'s DC Pretrial
Services Agency (PSA), in Washington, D.C., is among the nation's
leading experts in providing treatment, training, and technical
assistance in the areas of substance abuse prevention, assessment, and
treatment. He currently responsible for overseeing the branch that
provides substance abuse and mental health assessment, treatment, and
social services for all adults released under PSA supervision in the
District of Columbia. These responsibilities include overseeing the
city's adult Drug Court---the Superior Court Drug Intervention Program.
Prior to assuming these responsibilities, he excelled as the Director of
what was then the District's leading adolescent outpatient substance
abuse treatment center. There he was charged with developing and
executing evidenced based models for effectively treating adolescent
substance involvement including substance use, addiction, and juvenile
drug trafficking.

Terrence Walton is an internationally certified alcohol and other drug
abuse counselor with years of experience helping men, women, and
children to champion positive change in their lives. He holds a Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Psychology and a Master of Social Work degree with
specializations in program administration and substance abuse.

Noted for his practical strength-based approaches to complex issues,
Terrence Walton is actively sought out for insight on treating urban
substance abuse issues. During the Clinton administration, he was
invited to join a small group of substance abuse professionals who were
asked to evaluate a multi-million dollar White House Anti-Drug Media
Campaign. Currently, he serves on the substance abuse task force as a
part of the White House Best Practices Collaborative. Additionally, he
volunteers his services by sitting on numerous committees and task
forces dealing with the issues about which he cares most. In addition to
his extensive work domestically, he has provided input in the design of
substance abuse programs in Mexico, Bangladesh, and Bermuda. He is the
creator of the *MAC Group® and MAC Free Group®*, multi-session substance
abuse education curriculums being used by adult and youth programs
across the country.

Terrence Walton is married and resides in Maryland. He and his wife,
Yolanda, attend the Miracle Temple Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

**ROBERT L. WARD** has been an assistant Public Defender in Charlotte,
North Carolina since 1986. He was licensed to practice in 1982, and was
in private practice before becoming a public defender. He was
instrumental in establishing drug treatment courts in Charlotte and in
North Carolina. He has been active in NADCP and NDCI. He taught criminal
justice as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte from 1995 to 1998. In addition to his experience, he has been
involved in criminal justice policy, technology and management issues
since 1989.

**GERARD B. WATTIGNY** As the presiding judge of the adult and juvenile
programs in Iberia Parish, Gerard B. Wattigny has developed a unique
perspective of the Drug Court program. Having the experience of starting
two drug courts and overseeing their operation he continues to
demonstrate his commitment to innovative and meaningful change in both
the treatment of non-violent offenders and the delivery of justice. As a
native and resident of Iberia Parish, he brings an intimate knowledge of
both the area and clientele of the court. With a strong family history
of political and social involvement, Judge Watttigny continues the
tradition of public service. His input into the development of the adult
program has taken many forms. He meets with staff on a regular basis and
takes part in continuing education programs offered by the Louisiana
Association of Drug Court Professionals (LADCP), the National Drug Court
Institute (NDCI) and the National Association of Drug Court
Professionals (NADCP). He also takes a personal interest in clients and
staff by visiting the clinic on a regular basis and sitting in on
education and group sessions as his schedule permits. It is this \"hands
on\" approach that provides his personal signature to the program and
likewise assures staff and clients of his commitment to the program.

**HON. HENRY WEBER** is the Chief Judge of the Jefferson County Drug
Court in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to his appointment to the district
judgeship in 1983, he engaged in private practice and served as the
assistant county attorney. Since 1993, he has presided over the
Jefferson County Drug Court, and he instituted the Juvenile Drug Court
over which he presided for a year and a half. Judge Weber is a member of
the Louisville Bar Association. He obtained his B.A. degree from the
University of Kentucky in 1974, and his J.D. from Duke Law School in
1977.

**David M. Wertheimer** is a Principal Consultant with Kelly Point
Partners (KP^2^), has worked in a variety of capacities in the human
services arena for more than two decades. Between 1990 and 2000, he
served in King County (Seattle, Washington) government developing and
managing mental health services for persons with chronic and severe
mental illnesses. From 1993 to 1997 he directed the King County ACCESS
Project, a federally funded research and demonstration project focused
on homelessness and mental illness. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Wertheimer
oversaw the integration of King County\'s mental health and substance
abuse treatment systems as Systems Integration Administrator for the
[Department of Community and Human
Services](http://www.metrokc.gov/dchs/). In this capacity he developed a
[regional initiative](http://www.metrokc.gov/dchs/mhd/excellence.htm) to
promote excellence in public sector services.

As a clinician, Mr. Wertheimer has developed sub-specialties in working
with sexual minorities and counseling persons experiencing
post-traumatic stress. As an agency administrator, Mr. Wertheimer served
as Executive Director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian
[Anti-Violence Project](http://www.avp.org/) (AVP) from 1985 to 1990,
establishing the first clinical services on the east coast for lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender survivors of bias-related violence, sexual
assault and domestic abuse. The AVP remains the largest social service
agency in the United States providing specialized services to lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender crime victims.

Mr. Wertheimer founded Kelly Point Partners in 2000. KP^2^ works to
improve the lives of persons living with multiple disabilities and
promote increased effectiveness and efficiency among public and private
sector service systems. KP^2^ provides consultation, training and
technical assistance on a broad range of human service system issues,
with a focus on systems integration initiatives involving mental health,
chemical dependency/substance abuse and criminal justice systems.

Mr. Wertheimer currently lectures and consults throughout the country on
human service and criminal justice system integration issues with
government and social service organizational clients at the municipal,
county and state levels.

Mr. Wertheimer is a graduate of Haverford College, Yale University
Divinity School and the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.
He serves on numerous boards and advisory groups, including the Board of
Directors of the Downtown Emergency Service Center (Seattle),
Christopher Housing (Seattle), and Enquiry, Inc. (Langley WA).

**Hon. Marc H. Westbrook** was elected to the bench in 1994 and
currently is the judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. He attended
Anderson Junior College and received his A.A. in 1966 and received his
B.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1969 and his J.D. in 1973.
From 1978 to 1983 he was chairman of the Lexington County Council and a
member of the Springdale Baptist Church from 1976 to 78. He has served
on many committees, including but not limited to, the Midland Dixie
Youth Baseball, the Springdale P.T.A. and the Governor's Advisory
Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. In 1982 he was a distinguished
Young Alumnus at Anderson College. He has been on the Joint Committee on
the ADR, and, has been the chairman of the Lexington Courthouse
Dedication Committee. He also was the chairman of the chief justice's
Circuit Court Technology Center and served as a family court judge from
1983 to 1994.

**GUY WHEELER** is a consultant with Guy Wheeler and Associates. He was
previously the assistant director (equivalent to the rank of Major) of
the Broward Sheriffs' Office Department of Community Control in Broward
County, Florida. He oversaw and promoted continuity of care for the
in-custody and drug court treatment programs for one of the largest
sheriff departments in the country. Mr. Wheeler pioneered Broward's Drug
Court Treatment (DCT) Program in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the
program continues to produce great outcome measures. With over 1,100
active clients in treatment, his program maintains an 85 % non-felony
success rate for graduates. Mr. Wheeler kept Broward on the cutting edge
by continuing to seek alternative ways to treat clients. Former U.S.
Attorney General Janet Reno selected Broward County as one of the nine
treatment programs in the country to pilot a re-entry court program for
offenders once they are released from jail or prison. Prior to drug
court, Mr. Wheeler designed the first day treatment program for crack
cocaine addicts in Florida and later joined this program with several
churches to create the "Churches in Action" Program. This adjunct
support program opened the door for substance abusers to receive
ecumenical spiritual assistance outside the governmental sector. He
earned a master's degree in social work from Barry University
(license-eligible); is state certified as a criminal justice addiction
professional, DUI Instructor and certified domestic violence counselor.
Mr. Wheeler majored in forensic studies and minored in African American
studies at Indiana University.

THE HONORABLE AMANDA WILLIAMS is a superior court judge for the
Brunswick Judicial Circuit in the State of Georgia. Previously, Judge
Williams served as a law clerk for the judges of the Brunswick Circuit,
an assistant district attorney, a criminal defense attorney and a
plaintiff's attorney in private practice. She has served as a superior
court judge for over 10 years, holding numerous positions on committees
and commissions including being the secretary of Georgia's Commission on
Family Violence. In 1998 Judge Williams started the third and fourth
drug courts in the state of Georgia in Glynn and Camden Counties. In
1999 she was an honoree in the Tribute to Women Leaders. Judge Williams
holds a B.F.A. and a M.Ed. from the University of Georgia in Speech
Pathology where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
honorary societies. During her graduate year she co-authored "Oral and
Limb Apraxia in Mentally Retarded Children with Deviant Articulation"
which was published in the neurological journal [Cortex.]{.underline}
She received her Juris Doctorate from John Marshall Law School in
Atlanta, Georgia, where she graduated magna cum laude.

**Robin Wright** is senior deputy court administrator with the First
Judicial Circuit Pensacola, Florida, has been involved in the
development and implementation of two adult drug courts, a family drug
court and a juvenile drug court. The adult courts are utilized as model
programs for judicial circuits interested in the establishment of a drug
court program. Ms. Wright has been instrumental in securing grant funds
from the Florida Department of Corrections, Department of Community
Affairs and the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Wright graduated from
the University of South Alabama with a Bachelor of Arts in criminal
justice administration. She has served on the Advisory Committee on
Enhancing the Treatment-based Drug Courts in Florida, Department of
Children and Family -- Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Planning
Council, Okaloosa County Judicial Planning Committee, Okaloosa County
Public Safety Coordination Council and Escambia County Drug Court
Coalition.

**Barry A. Zavah** received a B.A. degree in Political Science from the
State University of New York at Buffalo in May 1969 and a Juris Doctor
from the Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago-Kent College of Law in
May 1972. He has been admitted to practice law in the state of New York
in February of 1973 and United States Western District of New York in
April of 1975. He is an Ordained Minister, President of Revive and
teacher of holistic approaches for the renewal and restoration of
spiritual and emotional health. Mr. Zavah retired following a
twenty-nine and a half year career as an Assistant District Attorney for
Erie County from April 1973 to September 2002. He prosecuted numerous
violent felony, white collar, narcotics and quality of life matters. A
veteran Dug Court prosecutor who completed public service with a five
and a half year assignment as a member of an experienced Team in the
City of Buffalo's internationally recognized Drug Treatment Court. He
has attended numerous NADCP training conferences while assigned to Drug
Court and graduated from NDCI's first Practitioner's course for Drug
Court Prosecutors in September of 1999. Mr. Zavah has participated on
planning teams for Adult, Juvenile Drug Treatment Court and "Breaking
the Cycle" federal grant applications. He is also a member of the NADCP
and a founding member of the New York State Association of Drug
Treatment Court Professionals. He has appeared as moderator, panelist,
faculty member or speaker at more than two dozen national, state or
local forums concerning Drug Treatment and Problem Solving Court issues.

**John Zoller** has been the Director of the Fulton County Drug Court
for the past four years. In this capacity he oversees a staff of 20
which includes an intensive outpatient treatment program, a lab used for
drug testing, case management staff, a GED program and a job skills
development program. John is also the coordinator for the local family
drug court which operates out of the juvenile court and he is
coordinating the planning process for a juvenile drug court. John serves
as the secretary for the Georgia Association for Drug Court
Professionals.