National Consortium on Racial

and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts

Gateway to Justice:

Out of the Fire and Into the Future

29th Annual Conference

May 15-17, 2017

St. Louis, Missouri

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

PRESENTING SPONSORS

MISSOURI BAR FOUNDATIONMISSOURI OFFICE OF STATE COURTS ADMINISTRATOR (OSCA)THOMPSON COBURNGOLD LEVEL SPONSORS

THE SIMON LAW FIRMBRYAN CAVESILVER LEVEL SPONSORS

THE MISSOURI BAR

HUSCH BLACKWELL

LEWIS RICE

SANDBERG PHOENIX & VON GONTARD

BRONZE LEVEL SPONSORS

DOWD BENNETT

SPENCER FANE

The Hon. Lisa Hardwick

Missouri Court of Appeals

Michael Middleton

Deputy Chancellor Emeritus

and Professor Emeritus of Law,

Co-Chair, Missouri Commission on

Racial & Ethnic Fairness

A Message from the Conference Co-Chairs

It is our privilege to welcome you to the 29th Annual Conference of the National Consortium on Racial

and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. We also welcome you to St. Louis, which over the last century has

played a key role in the fight for civil rights and the examination and expansion of equal protection

under the law. It is only fitting that Missouri and St. Louis play host to a national meeting of key leaders,

decision-makers, and influencers on the critical issue of racial and ethnic fairness at all levels of our legal

system.

We have worked over the last year to develop more than two full days of programming and events that

will give you the opportunity to connect with your colleagues across the country, engage in wide-ranging

discussions about top-of-mind topics related to racial and ethnic fairness, and discover new ideas and

methods to take back to your own legal communities. We believe you’ll come away from the conference

with new approaches, new colleagues and friends, and a renewed inspiration to continue the important

work of pursuing a more equitable judicial system for all litigants, no matter their race or ethnicity.

We would like to extend special thanks to the many people who worked tirelessly to support this

conference: Crista Hogan, Executive Director of the Springfield Metropolitan Bar, Sebrina Barrett,

Executive Director of The Missouri Bar, Zoe Linza, Executive Director of the St. Louis Metropolitan Bar

Association, the Hon. Anne Marie Clarke, and the Hon. Judy Draper. Our Supreme Court of Missouri and

its staff and the Missouri Office of State Courts Administration have been instrumental in supporting our

efforts. Special thanks goes to Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge and to the liaison for Missouri’s

Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness, Judge George Draper. Finally, none of this could have

happened without the support of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts

and the National Center for State Courts.

Thank you again for coming to St. Louis and engaging with this important conversation. Please contact

any of us should you need anything during your time at the conference.

William R. Bay

Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP

MONDAY, MAY 15, 201712:00 – 5:00 - Registration (Gateway Foyer)

1:00 – 3:00 - Board Meeting (Missouri)

3:00 - 5:00 - Voices of Ferguson (optional event, presented at Greater St. Mark Family Church, 9950 Glen Owen Drive, St. Louis Missouri) Program convened by Judge Judy P. Draper and Commissioner Anne-Marie Clarke

Moderator: • Bernie Hayes, Print and Broadcast Journalist and Radio Personality Panelists: • Michael McMillian, President and CEO, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. • Reverend Tommie L. Pierson, Sr., Pastor of Greater St. Mark Family Church and former Representative from the 66th District of Missouri • Adolphus M. Pruitt, II, President, St. Louis City Chapter of the NAACP • Wesley Bell, Professor and Program Coordinator of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies, St. Louis Community College and Council Member Ward 3, Ferguson • Monique Abby, Abby Law Firm

Please note: the Voices of Ferguson program at Greater St. Mark Family Church is open to the public and all are welcome to attend at no charge. Bus transportation is available with advance conference registration at a $25 charge. Subject to space availability, bus transportation can be reserved at the conference registration desk at a $35 charge. Buses will depart from the Marriott promptly at 2:45 pm.

6:00 – 8:30 - Taste of St. Louis, Opening Reception, Missouri Court of Appeals (815 Olive Street)

7:00 - 3:00 - Registration (Gateway Foyer)

7:00 – 8:20 - Breakfast (Statler)

7:00 – 8:30 - Board Meeting (Portland/Benton)

8:30 – 9:00 - Opening Session (Gateway AB)Introduction: • Michael A. Middleton, Deputy Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law, and Co-Chair Missouri Commission on Racial & Ethnic FairnessWelcome: • Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge, Supreme Court of Missouri • Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, D.C. Court of Appeals, Moderator/President National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts

9:00 – 10:15 - Gateway to Justice: Out of the Fire and into the Future – The Challenges Courts Face (Gateway AB) - (1.5 MoCLE)Moderator: • Lisa Foster, Former Director, O�ce for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of JusticePanelists: • Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge, Supreme Court of Missouri, Advisory Board Member, National Task Force on Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices • David Dwight, Communication & Strategy Catalyst, Forward through Ferguson • Jonathan Smith, Executive Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban A�airs

10:15 – 10:25 - Break (Gateway Foyer)

10:25 – 11:40 - Fines, Fees & Bail Practices: What Changes are Needed in Our Courts (Gateway AB) - (1.5 MoCLE) Moderator: • Karen Tokarz, Director, Civil Rights & Community Justice Clinic and Professor, Washington University Law School, Advisory Board member, National Task Force on Fines, Fees, and Bail PracticesPanelists: • Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Texas Supreme Court, Advisory Board Member, National Task Force on Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices • Rosalyn Frierson, Director, South Carolina Court Administration, Advisory Board Member, National Task Force on Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices • Nusrat Choudhury, Senior Sta� Counsel, ACLU Racial Justice Program

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017

11:50 - 12:50 - Lunch (Statler)Introduction: • Bill Bay, Co-Chair Missouri Commission on Racial & Ethnic Fairness, Partner Thompson CoburnSpeaker: • Paulette Brown, Immediate Past President, American Bar Association, Partner Locke Lord LLP1:00 – 2:15 - Option 1: Measuring Progress to Move Forward Towards Equity (Gateway AB) - (1.5 MoCLE) Moderator: •Luz Henriquez, Director for the Education Justice Program, Legal Services of Eastern MissouriPanelists: • Jennifer LeBaron, New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission • Veronica Smith, Founder, data2insight

1:00 - 2:15 - Option 2: Hot Topics: Race and Juvenile Justice (Portland/Benton) - (1.5 MoCLE)Moderator: • Dana Tippin Cutler, President, The Missouri BarPanelists: • Judge Jimmie Edwards, St. Louis City Circuit Court • Marsha Levick, Legislative Director, Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia, PA • Hernan Carvente, Program Analyst, Youth Justice, Vera Institute of Justice

2:15 – 2:30 - Break (Gateway Foyer)

2:30 – 3:45 - Hot Topics on Race and Ethnicity in the Jury Box – Cross Racial Witness Identi�cation and Juror Language Disenfranchisement (Gateway AB) - (1.5 MoCLE)Moderator: • Lajuana Counts, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of MissouriPanelists: • Jules Epstein, Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law (prerecorded presentation) • Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

3:45 – 5:00 - Courts and the Media: The New News Cycle (Gateway AB) - (1.5 MoCLE)Moderator: • Jesse Rutledge, VP for External A�airs, National Center for State CourtsPanelists: • Don Champion, Correspondent, CBS News Newspath Dallas Bureau • Farrah Fite, Media Relations Director, The Missouri Bar

5:30 – 7:30 - Blues, Brews and BBQ, Dinner Reception at Thompson Coburn (One US Bank Plaza)

8:00 – 10:00 - Private Film screening, see page 13 for details!

7:00 – 1:00 - Registration (Gateway Foyer)

7:00 – 8:20 - Breakfast and State Reports (Statler)Presiding: Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, (reports start at 7:30 am)

8:30 – 10:30 - Lights, Camera, Cops and Courts: Living in the Age of Body Cameras (Gateway AB) - (2.4 MoCLE)Welcome: • Honorable Lisa Hardwick, Missouri Court of Appeals, Western DistrictProgram Introduction: • Commissioner Anne-Marie Clarke, St. Louis Family CourtSpeaker: • Seth Stoughton, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law

10:30 - 10:45 - Break (Gateway Foyer)

10:45 - 11:45 - Structural Racism (Gateway AB) - (1.2 MoCLE, including 1.2 Ethics)Introduction: • Crista Hogan, Executive Director, Spring�eld Metropiltan Bar AssociationSpeaker: • john powell, Professor, University of California-Berkeley School of Law

12:00 – 1:10 - Lunch (Statler) Report of the Community Engagement in State Courts Initiative • Hon. Jimmie M. Edwards Interview with Frankie Muse Freeman • Judge George Draper, Supreme Court of Missouri 1:20 – 2:20 - Bias, Cultural Competence and the Court Process (Gateway AB) - (1.2 MoCLE, including 1.2 Ethics)Introduction: • Judge Judy Draper, St. Louis County Circuit CourtSpeaker: • Sujata Warrier, Training & Technical Assistant Director, Battered Women’s Justice Project

2:20 – 2:30 - Break (Gateway Foyer)

2:30 – 4:45 - Tribal Justice: Film Screening (Gateway AB) - (0.9 MoCLE)Introduction: • Judge Donovan Foughty, North Dakota District JudgeDiscussion: • Chief Judge Claudette White, Quechan Tribal Court • Jennifer Walter, Consultant

4:45 – 5:00 - Concluding General Session (Gateway AB)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017

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Private Film ScreeningTuesday, May 16, 2017, 8:00-10:00 pmMX Movies, 618 Washington Avenue (Adjacent to Thompson Coburn building) Don’t miss this exclusive sneak peak of a St. Louis based documentary punctuating themes of juvenile justice, racial inequity, and the school-to-prison pipeline. "Although �lmed in St. Louis over two years before and after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson,” says executive producer Je� Truesdell, “this �lm tells a universal American story, with relatable dreams and human emotion as teens confront the consequences of their actions and the public policies that work against them."

The �lm will be followed by a Q and A with Truesdell and Judge Jimmie Edwards, whose Innovative Concept Academy �gures prominently in the storyline. Judge Edwards shares this about the academy and this �lm: “At Innovative Concept Academy, we strengthen the value of learning from mistakes. First, we have to instill hope, a realistic vision for an improved future. Then, we have to instill belief that the student has the capacity to get there. In the documentary, Deja’s compelling story dramatizes the justice and reward of ensuring that each of our children has access to quality education, no matter how many hardships they have encountered. While her experience is by no means atypical, it beauti-fully re�ects the redemptive power that supportive, structured schooling o�ers our most endangered children and the importance of �nding non-traditional solutions for them.” National Consortium Conference registrants and guests are invited and encouraged to attend at no charge, but registration is required as space is limited. To register, email info@spring�eldbar.com. Reserved tickets will be available at the theater at 7:45 pm.

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Monique D. Abby is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, growing up in St. Louis County. Ms. Abby decided to expand her horizons and ventured off to Washing-ton, DC to earn her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with a minor in Business at Howard University in 1997. After that endeavor, she returned to St. Louis to receive her Juris Doctorate Degree at Saint Louis University School of Law in 2003.

Ms. Abby is a former Assistant Public Defender for the State of Missouri. She is currently the Owner and Sole Practitioner at Abby Law Firm, LLC focusing in the areas of Criminal, Juvenile, Traffic, Family and Civil Law.

Ms. Abby is President-Elect of Mound City Bar Association, with her term to begin this July, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, The Howard University Alumni Club, St. Louis, The Womens' Law Association, St Louis County Bar Association, a mentor for Saint Louis University School of Law B.L.S.A., and participates in various volunteer and communityservice projects in the Bi-State area.

MONIQUE D. ABBYOWNERABBY LAW FIRM

Bill has represented major corporations in high-stakes litigation for more than 30 years.He has achieved favorable results for clients in state and federal courts across the country, and frequently serves as regional or national counsel for clients facing suits and regulatory actions in multiple venues. He has been recognized as a top litigator by The Best Lawyers in America.

He is a past Chair of the 60,000-member ABA Section of Litigation, the largest section in the ABA, and a current member of the ABA Board of Governors. Bill is also a member of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organi-zation in the United States that works to improve the law. Bill has been selected as chair of a number of statewide commissions examining critical issues in the practice of law. Most recently, the Supreme Court of Missouri appointed him to serve as the chair of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness and the Joint Task Force on the Future of the Profession.

Bill's clients vary from major financial institutions to manufacturers to post-sec-ondary institutions. He has litigated cases on behalf of companies facing high-risk litigation and helped businesses manage and respond to large portfolios on litigation in multiple jurisdictions. These matters include highly complex and document-intensive cases involving breach of contract, fraud, corporate gover-nance, insurance coverage, lost profits, lender liability, and tortious interference.In his work for regional and national clients, Bill and his team have developed an innovative, statistics-based predictive model that evaluates large-scale litigation portfolios and effectively controls costs.

BILL BAY PARTNERTHOMPSON COBURN LLP

Councilman Wesley Bell is the Program Coordinator and Professor of Legal Studies and Criminal Justice at St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley campus. Serving as a Prosecutor and former Municipal Court Judge, Wesley working with other attorney's and judges, worked to implement uniform fine schedules across St. Louis County, as well as his court being one of the first to implement comprehensive amnesty for all citizens with municipal warrants in his city.

Dedicated to serving the community, he is a Board Member for the Soul-Fisher Ministries, Ferguson Youth Initiative and serves on the planning committee for the Left, Right & Center Criminal Justice Summit, hosted at Lindenwood College to educate and advocate for progressive criminal justice reforms in the state of MO.

Mr. Bell is a proud alumnus of Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO and the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law.

In April 2015, Mr. Bell was elected to serve the City of Ferguson as Ward 3 Councilman. During Wesley's first term the City has hired its first ever African American Police Chief, City Manager, & Human Resources Director; and having served on the Negotiation Team for the City of Ferguson with the Dept. of Justice, he was directly involved in negotiating & passing the Ferguson Consent Decree, bringing, among other things, the most comprehensive commu-nity policing and court reforms in the region to the City of Ferguson.

WESLEY BELLPROFESSORSTLCC - FLORISSANT VALLEY

The Honorable Anna Blackburne-Rigsby was sworn in as ChiefJudge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on March 17, 2017. AsChief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Chief JudgeBlackburne-Rigsby chairs the Joint Committee on Judicial Administrationfor the District of Columbia. Prior to being designated Chief Judge, ChiefJudge Blackburne-Rigsby was nominated by President George W. Bush inAugust 2006 to serve as an Associate Judge of the District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals. Before that, Chief Judge Blackburne-Rigsby, nominatedby President William Jefferson Clinton, served as an Associate Judge ofthe Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2000-2006, and servedas a Magistrate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbiafrom 1995-2000.

Chief Judge Blackburne-Rigsby chairs the District of ColumbiaCourts’ Standing Committee on Fairness and Access, and serves on theDistrict of Columbia’s Access to Justice Commission. Chief JudgeBlackburne-Rigsby is the Chair and Moderator of the National Consortiumon Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts and is the Past President of theNational Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) for the 2013-2014 term.

HON. ANNA BLACKBURNE-RIGSBYCHIEF JUDGEDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge was born and raised in Nevada, Missouri. She earned B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Missouri–Columbia. After graduation, she was a partner in the law firm of Russell, Brown, Bickel & Breckenridge in Nevada. She was appointed and then elected as Associate Circuit Judge of Vernon County from 1982 to 1990. She was a judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, from 1990 to 2007, serving as chief judge from 1998 to 2000. In 2007, Chief Justice Breckenridge was appointed to the Supreme Court of Missouri. She was elected chief justice by her colleagues for a two-year term, beginning July 1, 2015.

Chief Justice Breckenridge is a member of the National Center of State Courts Task Force on Fines, Fees and Bail Practices and was instrumental in establish-ing the Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness. She served as a member of the Supreme Court and The Missouri Bar’s joint Committee on Gender and Justice and was co-chair of its Implementation Committee. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Court Management Purposes and Responsi-bilities of Courts and a member of the Missouri Crossover Youth Policy team. Chief Justice Breckenridge is a Fellow of the Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Council of State Government Toll Fellow, and an American Bar Foundation Fellow.

HON. PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGECHIEF JUSTICESUPREME COURT - MISSOURI

Paulette Brown, Partner and co-chair of the firmwide Diversity & Inclusion Committee at Locke Lord LLP, is immediate past president of the American Bar Association. Brown has held a variety of leadership positions within the ABA. She has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates since 1997 and is a former member of the ABA Board of Governors and its Executive Committee as well as the Gover-nance Commission. While serving on the Board of Governors, Brown chaired the Program, Planning and Evaluation Committee. Brown has served on the Commission on Women in the Profession and was a co-author of "Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms.” Brown also chaired the ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice (now Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice) and is a past co-chair of the Commission on Civic Education in our Nation's Schools. Brown served on the Section of Legal Education’s Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and its Executive Committee. Brown joined the ABA Young Lawyers Division in 1976. She became active in the Section of Litigation in 1995, which has continued to be her section “home” ever since. She is a former member of The Fund for Justice and Education (FJE), FJE President's Club and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Brown has repeatedly been named as a New Jersey Super Lawyer and by US News as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of commercial litiga-tion. In 2009, Brown was a recipient of the Spirit of Excellence Award from the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. In 2011, she was honored with the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. Brown, who served President of the National Bar Association from 1993-1994, received the NBA’s highest honor, The C. Francis Stradford Award, in 2015. Brown earned her J.D. at Seton Hall University School of Law and her B.A. at Howard University.

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Hernan Carvente is a Program Analyst at the Vera Institute of Justice where he works on policy and program development while developing creative and meaningful mechanisms to incorporate the voices of youth and families in facility-based and statewide policy reform. Mr. Carvente has conducted training with and presented to a variety of stakeholders including policymakers, researchers, students, and professionals in probation, child welfare, juvenile justice and corrections.

Through his appointments on state boards including the New York State Juvenile Justice Advisory Group (NYS JJAG) and the Citizens Policy and Complaint Review Council (CPCRC), Mr .Carvente collaborated on the design and imple-mentation of New York State’s juvenile justice plan, which allocates federal funds to create and sustain youth initiatives, and ensured that local correctional facilities received civilian oversight in their treatment of the people in their custody. Mr. Carvente also served on the National Youth Committee of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) for the past 4 years in several leadership roles, including Northeast Regional Representative and National Youth Chair. He has also served as an advisor to the National Academies of Science and was a founding member of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Youth Advisory Council. Currently, Mr. Carvente serves as an advisor to Youth First, a national advocacy campaign to end the incarceration of youth by closing youth prisons and invest-ing in community-based alternatives to incarceration and programs for youth

As a formerly-incarcerated young leader Mr. Carvente brings both his personal and professional experience with the system to inform reform conversations around the country. He was awarded the “Spirit of Youth Award” by CJJ and the “Next Generation Champion for Change” award by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He graduated from John Jay College with a bachelors degree in Criminal Justice and is a first-generation Mexican-American who was the first male in his family to graduate from college.

HERNAN CARVANTE PROGRAM ANALYST VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE

Don Champion is a Correspondent for CBS News and joined the network in 2014. During his time at the network he’s covered the historic 2016 Presidential Election and tragedies like the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016.

Before joining CBS News, Don was a reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. Prior to New York, he worked as a Reporter and Anchor at KMGH-TV, the ABC affiliate in Denver. While there, he provided extensive coverage of several high-profile stories including the 2012 shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, CO and the Newtown School Shooting. He also heavily covered the 2009 case surrounding Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado man who plotted to carry out a coordinated suicide attack on New York City subways.

Don also worked at WAPT-TV in Jackson, MS and started his journalism career at KSNT-TV in Topeka, KS. In college, he worked as a cast member on the award-winning talk show Teen Summit on the BET (Black Entertainment Television) network.

In 2008, Don was awarded an Associated Press award for his live coverage of Hurricane Gustav. He also earned an Emmy Award in 2012.A Washington, D.C. area native, Don spent several years of his childhood growing up in Germany and attended Towson University in Baltimore.

DON CHAMPIONCORRESPONDENTCBS NEWS NEWSPATH - DALLAS

Nusrat Choudhury is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Racial Justice Program (RJP) of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she pursues litigation and advocacy against racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. Her work challenges biased policing, abusive stop-and-frisk practices, and “debtors’ prisons”- the illegal arrest and jailing of people too poor to pay court fines and fees.

Ms. Choudhury is a lead counsel in litigating challenging racial profiling and illegal stop-and-frisk practices by the Milwaukee Police Department. She has successfully brought legal challenges against debtors’ prisons in Georgia, Missis-sippi and Washington, including as lead counsel in Thompson v. DeKalb County, Georgia and Kennedy v. The City of Biloxi, Mississippi, which resulted in significant reforms to protect the rights of poor people unable to pay court fines and fees. Previously, Ms. Choudhury was a staff attorney in the ACLU’s Nation-al Security Project, where she challenged post-9/11 profiling of racial and religious minorities, government watchlists, FBI misconduct and abuse, and secrecy over intelligence programs. Ms. Choudhury was a lead attorney in Latif v. Holder (D. Or.), which resulted in the first federal court ruling that the U.S. government’s administration of the No Fly List violated due process and required reform. Ms. Choudhury previously served as a Karpatkin Fellow in RJP and clerked for Judge Barrington D. Parker in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Choudhury completed her J.D. at Yale Law School, her M.P.A. at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and her B.A. at Columbia University. She is a recipient and former Trustee of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Ms. Choudhury is also a recipient of the South Asian Bar Association of New York Access to Justice Award.

NUSRAT CHOUDHURYSENIOR STAFF ATTORNEYACLU

Anne-Marie Clarke was appointed Family Court Commissioner (Judge) of the Family Court for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court, St. Louis City, on October 1, 1998. She served as Hearing Officer from January 1986 until her appointment as Commissioner. She received a Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Missouri and is a member of the National Bar Association (Life Member), the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and the Mound City Bar Association where she served as President from 1981-1983. She was the first Black person to serve on the Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar (1986-1990 and 1991-1995). She served on the Board of Directors of The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company from its incep-tion in 1986 until October 1998. She will be installed as Chair of the National Bar Association Judicial Council at its annual meeting on August 1, 2017.

Clarke, the first Black woman to serve on the Board of Police Commissioners for St. Louis City, was appointed to the Police Board by Governor Mel Carnahan on April 30, 1993. She was unanimously elected President of the five-member board on April 6, 1994 becoming the first woman to serve as President, a position she held until her resignation on September 30, 1998.

She received the 2015 Commissioner’s Judicial Excellence Award from MO Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge as well as the 2015 Missouri Lawyers Weekly Public Official “Women’s Justice Award.” Some of her other awards include the prestigious Jordan-McNeal Award presented by the Missouri Legis-lative Black Caucus, a Volunteer Lawyers Service Award presented by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, and a Distinguished Citizen Award from the St Louis Argus Newspaper. She has been designated a “Legal Legend” by the Mound City Bar Association.

HON. ANNE-MARIE CLARKECOMMISSIONER FAMILY COURT - 22 JUDICIAL DIST.

Lajuana Counts is currently the Chief of the Appellate Unit at the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Missouri. She was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1989 after clerking for the Honorable Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr. at the Missouri Court of Appeals. Over the last 28 years, Ms. Counts has gained vast trial experience in a variety of federal white collar and narcotics cases. She has written and argued numerous criminal cases before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Counts received her B.S.B.A in 1982 from the University of Missouri- Columbia, and her J.D. in 1988 from the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

Ms. Counts has always been active in the Missouri Bar and has held various leadership positions in local bar associations. She has served as the President of the Jackson County Bar Association, as well as an in leadership roles with the Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, the Kansas City Metro-politan Bar Association, Federal Practice Committee, Federal Court Advocates, and Eighth Circuit Bar Association. Ms. Counts has served as a member of the Missouri Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Hearing Panel, and the Missouri Bar’s Gender and Justice Committee, and currently serves on the Missouri Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness.

Outside of the legal profession, Ms. Counts enjoys being active in the communi-ty with organizations such as Operation Breakthrough, Rose Brooks Center, Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association, and Legal Aid of Western Missouri, and Soroptimist International. She also has been a long-time support-er and volunteer at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and has been honored with awards for her leadership and dedication to the university.

LAJUANA COUNTSCHIEF OF APPELLATE UNIT U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

Dana Tippin Cutler is a partner in her family's law firm, James W. Tippin & Associates. She graduated from UMKC School of Law in 1989 and from Spelman College with a B.A. in 1986. Dana is a member of the American Bar Association; Jackson County Bar Association; and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. She currently is President of The Missouri Bar Board of Governors (Sept 2016-Sept 2017) and is immediate-past President of The Missouri Bar Foundation. She was appointed by the ABA President to serve on the Committee for Professionalism. She was appointed and has served on the ABA Standing Committee for Judicial Independence and The Missouri Bar Trustees. She has served as the Chair of the Diversity Committee (f/k/a Com-mittee on Minority Issues) for The Missouri Bar and was instrumental in starting The Missouri Bar's Leadership Academy. She has served as legal counsel for the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation and as chair and vice-chair for the KCMBA's Circuit Court & Civil Practice Committee and vice-chair of the Insurance Law Committee. Dana is a three-time recipient of The Missouri Bar's President Award for service. Dana serves on and is currently the treasurer of and a past-president of the Board of Curators for Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, a gubernatorial appointment. Her community service includes serving on the Boards of Swope Parkway Health Center and Swope Community Enterprises. Her practice is concentrated primarily in education law (charter and hybrid schools in Missouri) and defense litigation. She is an active member of Concord Fortress of Hope and is the proud mother of three adult sons Keith, Jr., Dean and Austin Cutler and is the partner, in practice and in marriage, of Keith Cutler, Sr.

DANA TIPPIN CUTLERPARTNERJAMES W. TIPPIN & ASSOCIATES

Judge Draper was appointed Associate Circuit Judge, 2004.

She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Howard University Law School. She clerked for the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C. and Federal District Court (Eighth Circuit, Missouri).

She was a Prosecutor for the City of St. Louis, Adjunct Professor of pre-trial practice and procedure, Washington University School of Law, the first female General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Corrections, Municipal Judge for Northwoods and Berkeley. She had a general private practice prior to taking the bench.

She was appointed to the serve on the National Consortium on Racial & Ethnic Fairness in the Courts Host & Program Committee (2017). She was appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court to serve as an ABA Delegate and appointed to the Missouri Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession. (2016). Judge Draper is a founding member of the Missouri Asian American Bar Associ-ation (“MAABA”).

She is married to George W. Draper III, Supreme Court Judge and they have one daughter, an attorney, Washington University Law School and Kings College, London.

HON. JUDY DRAPERASSOCIATE CIRCUIT JUDGE21st JUDICIAL DIST. - ST. LOUIS COUNTY

George William Draper III was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received confirmation at All Saints Episcopal Church and attended Hamilton Elementary School until his family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts. degree in Psychol-ogy from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. In 1981, he served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Shellie Bowers of the District of Columbia Superior Court. From 1984-1994, George worked in the Office of the Circuit Attorney, City of St Louis, and prosecuted numerous jury trials to conclusion. In January 1993, Dee Joyce-Hayes took office as Circuit Attorney and appointed George First Assistant. George served in this capacity until his appointment in July 1994, by Governor Mel Carnahan, as an Associate Circuit Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit.

In June 1998, Governor Carnahan appointed Judge Draper as a Circuit Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit, and on May 16, 2000, Governor Mel Carnahan appointed Judge Draper to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District as an appellate court judge. Judge Draper served as the first African-American Chief Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District from July 2004 through June 2005. While serving at that level of the judiciary, he authored approximately 612 opinions.

On October 19, 2011, Governor Jeremiah Nixon appointed Judge Draper to the Missouri Supreme Court and having been retained in 2012 for a twelve-year term he serves there today. In addition to being a member in good standing with the Missouri Bar, George is a member of the Mound City Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL), the Lawyers Association of St. Louis, the National Bar Association, and the Missouri Asian Bar Association. Along with both his father and his wife, George is an inaugural member in the Gallery of St. Louis Legal Pioneers with the Bar Associa-tion of Metropolitan St. Louis. Judge Draper serves as a Trial Advocacy Adjunct Professor for Saint Louis University School of Law, teaching Trial Advocacy I since 1996. He is married to The Honorable Judy P. Draper, formerly General Counsel for the State of Missouri Department of Corrections, and presently serving as an Associate Circuit Judge, 21st Judicial Circuit Court. They have one child, Chelsea W. Draper, J.D., L.L.M., alumna of Amherst College, and currently, she serves as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri.

HON. GEORGE WILLIAM DRAPER III JUDGESUPREME COURT - MISSOURI

David Dwight IV is the Communication and Strategy Catalyst at Forward Through Ferguson. In his position he serves as a liaison with organizations implementing recommendations from the Ferguson Commission report, leads many of the organizations special initiatives, and supports the development of a framework for achieving Racial Equity in the St. Louis region. Racial Equity is defined as a state where social outcomes — in health, the workforce, housing, education, the justice system, etc. — cannot be predicted by race.

He previously served as a Communications Fellow for the Ferguson Commis-sion, working closely with the Citizen-Law Enforcement Relations working group, building the content of the final report, maintaining the digital report platform, and aiding the storytelling team to connect the everyday experiences and stories of St. Louisans to the policy recommendations of the report.

While his undergraduate focus was in biomedical engineering, his experience co-founding Students in Solidarity, which mobilized student activism and lobbied university administrations to improve the experience of people of color on campus, led him to center social justice and advocacy as critical aspects of his future career. He is dedicated to supporting the work of Forward Through Ferguson and the region as we forge a path toward Racial Equity.

DAVID DWIGHT IVCOMM. & STRATEGY CATALYSTFORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON

Judge Jimmie M. Edwards is a senior member of the circuit bench in St. Louis, Missouri. He has server for over 24 years. Froom 2007 to 2012 Judge Edwards served as Chief Judge of the Family Court. Frustrated by the rising number of high school dropouts with no job skills and no legitimate means to earn a living, Judge Jimmie M. Edwards conceived an idea for an innovative type of school that could educate and supervise these deliquent youth. With help from the St. Louis Public School District, MERS Goodwill Industries, St. Louis Family Court and numerous supporters the Innovative Concept Academy opened its doors in the fall of 2009. This first-of-it’s-kind school has recieved national acclaim from the CBS Early Show, the Today Show and the Wall Street Journal. PEOPLE Magazine named Judge Edwards one of its 2011 hereos of the year. Ebony magazine selected him to its 2013 Power 100 most influential in America List and Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts presented Judge Jimmie M. Edwards with the William Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence-one of our nation’s highest judicial awards. In 2006, Judge Edwards was inducted into the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame.

HON. JIMMIE M. EDWARDSCIRCUIT JUDGE21st JUDICIAL DIST. - ST. LOUIS COUNTY

Jules Epstein is Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Temple Beasley School of Law. He is faculty for the National Judicial College and has lectured on evidence and forensics issues to judges and attorneys across the country at the state and federal level and in the United States military.

At the intersection of eyewitness identification law and science, he has researched, published and litigated extensively; served as an expert witness; conducted training for judges, prosecutors, defense counsel and members of law enforcement; and participated as a reviewer of the National Academy of Scienc-es Report Identifying The Culprit.

Professor Epstein was a member of the National Commission on Forensic Science for the four years of its existence and has worked on other forensics projects. He is co-editor of Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility and the Use of Expert Evidence in the Courtroom, Monograph #9, (ABA, 2013) and The Future of Evidence (ABA, 2011) and served as section editor for the Encyclope-dia of Forensic Sciences, 2nd Edition (2013).

JULES EPSTEINPROFESSOR OF LAW TEMPLE BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW

Farrah Fite is the media relations director for The Missouri Bar where she communicates and promotes - using traditional and new media - the wide range of services and resources available to its members, the media, educators, and the citizens of Missouri. In her role, she also works with the bar’s officers when it comes to developing messaging for key issues, speech writing and interview prep. Fite says she is most passionate about shaping messaging that makes sure audiences get “what’s in it for them” and exploring new platforms to best communicate in the ways our audiences prefer.

She is the recipient of a 2014 NABE Communications Section Luminary Award for Excellence in Public Relations (Large Bars) for The Missouri Bar’s public relations campaign in support of Bar-drafted legislation comprehensively revising Missouri’s Criminal Code for the first time in 35 years.

Before joining the bar world in 2012, she was communications director for the Missouri Senate. She is a former journalist having worked as a local television reporter in Missouri and an associate producer at ABC News in Washington, D.C.

FARRAH FITEMEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTORTHE MISSOURI BAR

Lisa Foster was the Director of the Office for Access to Justice.

Before joining the Department, she served for ten years as a California Superior Court Judge in San Diego where she presided over criminal, civil and family law departments.

After serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Marianna R. Pfaelzer of the Central District of California, Foster began her legal career as a Staff Attorney at the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles and later joined the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. She also served as the Executive Director of California Common Cause and was Of Counsel to the law firm of Phillips & Cohen, representing whistleblowers under the federal and California False Claims Acts. Foster also taught courses on sex discrimination, federal courts and election law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Foster received a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University and J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

LISA FOSTERFORMER DIRECTOROFFICE FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICEDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Donovan Foughty is a district judge of the Northeast judicial District in North Dakota. He was admitted to the State Bar in 1983. He began his judicial career by election to the county bench in 1987. He was elected to the district bench in 1995 where he continues to serve. He served as a trial judge in tribal courts in North Dakota and as an appellate court judge for the Northern Plains Intertribal Court of Appeals in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Judge Foughty chaired the Tribal/State Court Forum in North Dakota with a final report being submitted to the Chief Justice in December of 1993. He chairs the standing Committee on Tribal and State Court Affairs. He is a past chair of the Judicial Conduct Commission. He co-chaired the North Dakota Commission to study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts submitting a final report to the Chief Justice in June of 2012. He now sits as chair of the Minority Justice implementation Committee. He sits on the board of directors of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. He chairs the Justice Commission for Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Nation in North Dakota. She commission has court oversight duties.

HON. DONOVAN FOUGHTYDISTRICT JUDGENORTHEAST JUDICIAL DISTRICTNORTH DAKOTA

Rosalyn W. Frierson was appointed Director of South Carolina Court Administra-tion by the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1998. She also currently serves as a substitute Municipal Court Judge for the City of Columbia. She was elected February 1, 2017, by the S.C. General Assembly to serve as a State Family Court Judge with her six-year term beginning in July 2017.

Mrs. Frierson is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina. She previously served as a S.C. Supreme Court Staff Attorney, Law Clerk to former Chief Justice Ernest Finney, Jr. and Research/Budget Analyst for the Ways and Means Committee of the S.C. House of Representatives.

Mrs. Frierson is co-chair of the CCJ/COSCA Joint Courts, Children and Families Committee. She served as President of the Conference of State Court Adminis-trators (COSCA) and Vice-Chair of the National Center for State Courts in 2011. Mrs. Frierson participated in the three-year Executive Session for State Court Leaders in the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 2014 she was inducted into the National Center for State Courts Warren E. Burger Society and was a 2015 South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Leadership in Law award Honoree. She was selected as a recipient of the 2016 Gold Compleat Lawyer Award given by the USC School of Law Alumni Council.

ROSALYN W. FRIERSONDIRECTORSOUTH CAROLINA COURT ADMINISTRATION

Lisa White Hardwick has served as a judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District since her gubernatorial appointment in 2001. As Chief Judge from 2010 – 2012, she led the court’s implementation of an electronic filing system that is now used state-wide.

Judge Hardwick is actively involved with Supreme Court committees to improve judicial administration in Missouri. She chaired the Appellate Practice Commit-tee from 2001 - 2013, and served on the Civic Education Committee from 2013 - 2015, where she developed judicial education programs for schools and civic groups. Currently, she co-chairs the Missouri Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.

In private practice with the law firm of Shook, Hardy, & Bacon from 1985 - 2000, Judge Hardwick was the firm’s first attorney of color and then partner in 1991. She served as a trial court judge on the Jackson County Circuit Court from 2000 – 2001. In her judicial career, she was the first African-American woman to serve as circuit judge in Jackson County and on any appellate court in Missouri.

As a community leader, Judge Hardwick serves on the board of directors for Swope Community Enterprises (Vice-President), the Delta Educational and Economic Development Foundation (Vice-President), and the Center School District Education Foundation. She is a member of the St. James United Meth-odist Church and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Judge Hardwick received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1982 and her law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1985.

HON. LISA WHITE HARDWICKJUDGE MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS

Bernie Hayes is celebrating 60 years as a print and broadcast journalist, radio and television announcer, columnist and recording artist and record producer.

He arrived in St Louis 1965 at Radio Station KATZ. He has held executive positions at St. Louis radio stations KATZ, KWK, KKSS,KIRL, WESL, KXLW and KADI. He hosted the “Soul Brotherhood” and ‘Black Circle Hours’ on Channel 30 and was an announcer, Weathercaster and host of ‘Dialing for Dollars’ at KTVI-Channel 2 (ABC).

In 1980 Hayes started the first Black radio talk show in the St. Louis area. He is the former News Director at KWMU at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and is the author of the book “The Death of Black Radio.” He is the founder of ‘The St. Louis Black Radio Hall of Fame’ and The National Black Radio Hall of Fame.

Currently he is a media professor at Webster University and host of the Bernie Hayes Television Show at CH. 24 KNLC-TV. He is a columnist for the St. Louis American Newspaper, the nation’s leading African American Weekly and Director of the Don and Heidi Wolff Jazz Institute at Harris-Stowe State Univer-sity.

BERNIE HAYESMEDIA PROFESSORWEBSTER UNIVERSITY

Nathan L. Hecht is the 27th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He has been elected to the Court six times, first in 1988 as a Justice, and most recently in 2014 as Chief Justice. He is the longest-serving Member of the Court in Texas history and the senior Texas appellate judge in active service. Throughout his service on the Court, Chief Justice Hecht has overseen revisions to the rules of administration, practice, and procedure in Texas courts, and was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to the federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. Chief Justice Hecht is also active in the Court's efforts to assure that Texans living below the poverty level, as well as others with limited means, have access to basic civil legal services.

Chief Justice Hecht was appointed to the district court in 1981 and was elected to the court of appeals in 1986. Before taking the bench, he was a partner in the Locke firm in Dallas. Chief Justice Hecht holds a B.A. degree with honors in philosophy from Yale University, and a J.D. degree cum laude from the SMU School of Law, where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar. He clerked for Judge Roger Robb on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps.

Chief Justice Hecht is a Life Member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Texas Philosophical Society.

HON. NATHAN L. HECHTCHIEF JUSTICESUPREME COURT - TEXAS

Luz María Henríquez is the Director of the Education Justice Program at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM), which seeks to advance education equity and racial justice for all children in Missouri. The Education Justice Program will use impact litigation, policy work, and other advocacy tools to target the root causes of education inequity and racial disparities in education in Missouri.

Luz is currently litigating a matter she filed on behalf of her client in March 2015 in state court in which she is representing a student who is challenging the lack of due process afforded in disciplinary school transfers and asserting the right to an alternative education for long-term suspended and expelled students. This lawsuit is one of the first lawsuits of its kind in Missouri.

In addition, Luz has filed complaints with the Office of Civil Rights and has filed several administrative due process complaints against school districts for violat-ing students’ rights under the Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Such complaints have resulted in favorable resolutions for the students she has represented.

Prior to joining LSEM, Luz served as a litigation associate at Hogan Lovells, US LLP in New York for five years handling complex commercial litigation matters. Luz was awarded the firm’s 2013 Pro Bono Associate of the Year award for her Pro Bono work involving fair housing litigation and the representation of a death penalty defendant in post-conviction appeals. Luz has a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was a member of the California Law Review and the Executive Editor of the La Raza Law Journal. In addition, Luz was a visiting law student at New York University School of Law. She also has a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in International Migration Studies from the University of California, San Diego.

LUZ MARIA HENRIQUEZDIRECTOR OF EDUCATION JUSTICELEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MO.

Dr. LeBaron has been with the Juvenile Justice Commission since 1998, serving in numerous leadership roles, and collaborating with various reform experts and entities throughout the state to effect informed change within juvenile justice. As Deputy Executive Director of Policy, Research and Planning, Dr. LeBaron serves as advisor to the Executive Director on all matters pertaining to the agency’s policy agenda. She formulates positions and recommendations regard-ing legislation, regulations, and rules, and oversees the completion of research and data analysis required to support the Commission’s stance on matters affecting the agency. She also directs new initiatives designed to enhance the Commission’s capacity to effectively care for the youth in its custody and to improve the overall functioning of the juvenile justice system statewide. She also serves as Co-Chair of the New Jersey Council on Juvenile Justice System Improvement. Dr. LeBaron previously served as the Commission’s Director of Local Programs & Services, overseeing the development, enhancement, and funding of local continuums of juvenile justice services. Importantly, Dr. LeBar-on has been responsible for leading the implementation of JDAI since its launch in 2004. In this critical role, managing the day to day operations of JDAI, Dr. LeBaron achieved many advancements, proving to be a trailblazer in juvenile justice reform. During her tenure, New Jersey was named the only state Model Site for JDAI by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Dr. LeBaron received a B.A. in Psychology from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. While in graduate school, Dr. LeBaron was the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, most notably the Rutgers Univer-sity Doctoral Excellence Fellowship. She also taught college courses in crimi-nology and juvenile justice. Dr. LeBaron is the recipient of two NJ Attorney General Awards for Excellence in Innovation, the W. Haywood Burns Institute’s Courageous Leadership Award for advancing race equity, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Juvenile Detention Reform.

DR. JENNIFER LEBARONDEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORJUVENILE JUSTICE COMMISSION

Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, co-founded Juvenile Law Center in 1975. Throughout her legal career, Levick has been an advocate for children’s and women's rights and is a nationally recognized expert in juvenile law. Levick oversees Juvenile Law Center’s litigation and appellate docket. She has successfully litigated challenges to unlawful and harmful laws, policies and practices on behalf of children in both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Levick also spearheaded Juvenile Law Center’s litigation arising out of the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania juvenile court judges’ corruption scandal, known as the “kids for cash” scandal, where Juvenile Law Center successfully sought the expungement and vacatur of thousands of juveniles’ cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and is pursuing civil damages for the children and their families in a federal civil rights class action.

Levick has authored or co-authored numerous appellate and amicus briefs in state and federal appeals courts throughout the country, including many before the US Supreme Court, and has argued before both state and federal appellate courts in Pennsylvania and numerous other jurisdictions. Levick co-authored the lead child advocates’ amicus briefs in key recent United States Supreme Court cases, including Roper v. Simmons (juvenile death penalty unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment); Graham v. Florida (life without parole sentences for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment); J.D.B. v North Carolina ( a juvenile’s age is relevant to the Miranda custody analysis under the Fifth Amendment); and Miller v. Alabama(-mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of homicide offenses unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment). Levick also served as co-counsel in Montgomery v Louisiana, where the Supreme Court ruled Miller retroactive throughout the country. Levick is a frequent speaker and lecturer on children’s rights nationwide, and has also co-authored numerous scholarly articles on children’s rights.

MARSHA LEVICKDEPUTY DIRECTOR JUVENILE LAW CENTER

Michael P. McMillan is the President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropoli-tan St. Louis, Inc., a nonprofit organization that has been providing social services to the metropolitan St. Louis community since 1918. The Urban League is the largest affiliate of the National Urban League movement, headquartered in New York City. The Urban League mission is “to assist African Americans and others throughout the region in securing economic self-reliance, social equality and civil rights.” Each year, the Urban League serves more than 92,000 residents with economic opportunity, educational excellence, community empowerment, civil rights and advocacy programs. As an advocate for social and economic parity, McMillan speaks on behalf of Urban League constituents.

In response to the crisis in Ferguson, McMillan created the Save Our Sons program in St. Louis County to help 500 African-American men find jobs and hosted the Urban League’s largest job fair in history at St. Louis Community College - Floris-sant Valley. He has also charted the building of the Urban League Community Empowerment Center of Ferguson on the site of a convenience store that was burned down during the crisis.

McMillan is a member of 15 Boards of Directors including Children’s Hospital, Fontbonne University, Lewis & Clark Community College, Reliance Bank, The St. Louis Zoological Commission, Regions Bank Community Development Corpora-tion, The Sheldon, Grand Center, Heat Up St. Louis, Inc. (Cool Down St. Louis), The St. Louis Community Foundation., The DESE Task Force, American Red Cross Greater St. Louis Region, The Muny, Ranken Technical College, Greater St. Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America and the Workforce Investment Board of St. Louis County.

Michael P. McMillan is a graduate of Saint Louis University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies and a minor in Political Science with an emphasis on Finance. Additionally, McMillan earned an Eisenhower International Fellowship to travel to Ireland and Paris to study their forms of government.

MICHAEL P. MCMILLANPRESIDENT & CEOURBAN LEAGUE OF METRO ST. LOUIS

Michael A. Middleton was appointed interim president of the University of Missou-ri System on November 12, 2015, by the University of Missouri System Board of Curators after student protests forced a change in administration. He previously served as deputy chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a professor emeritus in the MU School of Law.

Beginning in 1997, Middleton served as the interim vice provost for minority affairs and faculty development at MU. A year later, he accepted the position of deputy chancellor, a role he held until his retirement on August 31, 2015.

Throughout his career, Middleton has received several accolades including: the Distinguished Alumni Award from the MU Black Alumni Organization in 1995, the Harold Holliday Award from the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus in 1998, the Spurgeon Smithson Award from the Missouri Bar Foundation in 1999, a Citation of Merit from the University of Missouri School of Law in 2001, the Chief Justice’s Award from the Missouri Supreme Court in 2001, the President’s Award from the Missouri Bar in 2003, the MLK Dream Conference Trailblazer of the Year Award in 2006, and most recently the MLK Jr. Distinguished Drum Major for Justice Award, the Legislative Black Caucus Public Service Award, and the Trailblazer Award from the Columbia NAACP in 2016.

Middleton grew up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi. His dad, a chaplain with the Army, could not be politically active, but other family members inspired Middleton to get involved in civil rights. He often tagged along with aunts and uncles who were active with the NAACP. Middleton remembers attending the conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, along with Ted Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Middleton is married to Dr. Julie N. Middleton, who retired in February 2016 after serving as director of organizational development and an extension professional at the University of Missouri. Together, they have three children and seven grandchil-dren.

MICHAEL A. MIDDLETONPROFESSORUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURISCHOOL OF LAW

Reverend Pierson has pastored the Greater St. Mark Family Church for 39 years. He is a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives, elected to serve the people of St. Louis County, District 66. In addition to his legislative service, Rev. Pierson was an assembly worker at General Motors for 32 years.

Rev. Pierson served on the Riverview Gardens School Board in North St. Louis County and is involved with the Citizens for Modern Transit. In addition, he participated in the 2008-2009 Focus St. Louis Leadership Program. He received the Interfaith Award from Mohammed Mosque #28 in January 2003, Outstand-ing Community Development Award in 2005, the North County Builders Award in 2006, and the Advisory Committee for I-64 (MoDot) ProjectAward.

In lieu of his last term as State Representative of 66th District, Pierson announced his candidacy for Lt. Governor of the state of Missouri. He received support from many fellow legislators, businesses, unions, religious communities. He worked hard, traveling throughout the state of Missouri, reaching out to its citizens to recognize and address their concerns and needs. Even though he did not win the Missouri Primary Election on August 2, 2016, Rep. Pierson is still victorious in the eyes of many who know him and have had the privilege to work closely with him throughout the years. Perhaps one of his proudest moments is that his son, Rev. Tommie L. Pierson, Jr., succeed him in his State Representative seat in January, 2017.

Born January 29, 1946 in Ripley, Tennessee, Rev. Pierson currently resides in Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri with his wife of 44 years, JoAnn Pierson. They have three children: Linell Green (Rev. LeRoy Green); Rev. Tommie L. Pierson, Jr. (Zorata Pierson); and Lavenia Draper (Earl Draper). He is the proud grandfather of 8 (4 granddaughters and 4 grandsons). He is a 1965 graduate of Beaumont High School in the city of St. Louis. Rev. Pierson is a fighter and he recognizes there’s so much more to be done throughout our community, our city, our state, our country, our world. He may not have the answers to it all, but he’s not going to give up trying!

REV. TOMMIE L. PIERSONPASTORGREATER ST. MARK FAMILY CHURCH

john a. powell is Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously served as the Executive Director at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University and the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He was formerly the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is a co-founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the board of several national organizations. john led the development of an “opportunity-based” model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment. He has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University. His latest book is Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.

john a. powellPROFESSOR OF LAWUNIVERSITY OF CAL-BERKLEY

After obtaining degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from Missou-ri Baptist College Adolphus briefly pursued a Master in Exegetical Theology; He put it on hold to establish Pruitt & Associates at the age of twenty-two and had the opportunity to build a client list that propel his skills and development into an entrepreneur. One of his first ventures was into the Health & Beauty Aids business when he co-founded H. J. Glass LTD. There he directed all of the company’s Research & Development and oversaw all stages of product development of an organic skin cream. Once product development was completed, he sold his stake in H. J. Glass LTD and established Pruitt & Associates.

His company Pruitt & Associates quickly evolved into a small management consultant firm specializing in private & non-profit real estate development and economic development projects ranging from light manufacturing to warehousing. During this period he also purchased Mechanics Products a mid-size St. Louis based industrial supplier & distributor. Pruitt & Associates as a developer has conducted an extensive neighborhood real estate developments portfolio and milestones; including the introduction of lease-purchase single-fam-ily housing in North St. Louis, converting tenants of low-income housing tax credit projects into home owners.

Adolphus is a semi-retired management consultant, dedicating most of his time as an advocate for Civil Rights.

As a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP) Adolphus currently serves as the President of the St. Louis City Branch; on the State level Adolphus has served as 1st Vice President Missouri State Conference of Branches, and chaired its Economic Empowerment, Political Action, and Legal Redress Committees.

Adolphus has a son and two-daughters, one grandson, one granddaughter, two great-granddaughters and two great-grandsons.

ADOLPHUS MORRIS PRUITT IIOWNERPRUITT & ASSOCIATES

Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a critical proceduralist and is particularly interested in the intersections of race and language with two areas: juries and Evidence law. She is the nation’s leading expert on juror language disenfran-chisement and juror language accommodation. Her scholarship has or will soon appear in journals including the Minnesota Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review (invited). Due to her scholarly commitment to racial justice, she was selected as an inaugural Derrick A. Bell Fund for Excellence Scholar in 2014 and again received the award in 2015.

Professor Gonzales Rose teaches courses in Race and the Law, Evidence, and Civil Procedure– including Complex Litigation with an emphasis on Social Change. She has twice, in 2014 and 2017, received Pitt Law’s Distinguished Public Interest Professor Award. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Law School’s Robert T. Harper Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Gonzales Rose is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as Editor-In-Chief of the Harvard Latino Law Review and a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. After law school, she clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Héctor M. Laffitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She has also worked for a variety of non-profit and governmental organizations on issues of civil and human rights. Currently she serves on the Boards of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Pittsburgh and the Abolitionist Law Center. She is also the Chair of the University of Pittsburgh's Center on Race and Social Problems’ Criminal Justice Research Advisory Panel.

JASMINE GONZALES ROSEPROFESSORUNIV. OF PITTSBURGH

Jesse Rutledge serves as Vice President for External Affairs at the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). He oversees the organization’s communica-tions, marketing, information services, associations, conferences, and private development, and is project director on NCSC’s State of the State Courts public opinion work. He serves as staff to the Conference of Chief Justice’s Standing Committee on Judicial Politics and Compensation. Recently he used one of his fifteen minutes of fame: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited one of his reports in her 2015 concurring opinion in Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar. His com-mentary has appeared in state and national media, including the BostonGlobe, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and on NPR and the BBC. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in political science.

JESSE RUTLEDGEVICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRSNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS

In 2010, Veronica S. Smith founded data2insight, a data science company that guides people to use data wisely to solve complex problems. Veronica loves helping clients measure and evaluate education, environmental, health, and social impacts. STEM has been an important part of her life since she was a high school mathlete.

Her love of art and science drove her to earn a Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Arizona in 1991, which she practiced for 5 years. She got caught up in the 90’s tech boom, becoming a technology recruiter for Real Networks and XO Communications. Inspired by working with engineers build-ing the broadband network, Veronica earned her Master of Electrical Engineer-ing degree from the University of Washington. Her master’s thesis and basic neuroscience research work examined technology tools and applied those tools to increase understanding of human brain structure and function.

In 2008, Veronica transitioned from basic research to applied research and evaluation where she earned a graduate certificate in the advanced study of evaluation from Claremont Graduate University. Shortly thereafter, data2insight was born. Veronica is passionate about mentoring young people. She is an Association for Women in Science (AWIS) mentor and is the Washington State co-chair for the Million Women Mentors movement. In 2016, Veronica and her wife were proud to award their first AWIS scholarship to a budding medical chemistry researcher in honor of their parents’ support and encouragement for their STEM careers.

VERONICA S. SMITHFOUNDERDATA2INSIGHT

Jonathan M. Smith was appointed executive director of the Washington Law-yers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs on July 1, 2016.Immediately prior to joining the Committee, Mr. Smith was the Associate Dean of Experiential and Clinical Programs at the University of the District of Colum-bia David A. Clarke School of Law.

Mr. Smith was the Chief of the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2010 to 2015. The Section was responsible for pattern or practice investigations of civil rights violations by law enforcement, correctional, juvenile justice, and mental health and developmental disability agencies. Under his leadership, the Section conducted the civil investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department following the death of Michael Brown.

Prior to his government services, Mr. Smith was the executive director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, the Public Justice Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and the D.C. Prisoners’ Legal Services Project. In each of these positions, in addition to providing program leadership, he has handled individual, class action and impact litigation, engaged in legislative advocacy and in institutional reform efforts. He started his career as an associate to Virgin-ia civil rights lawyer Victor Glasberg.

JONATHAN M. SMITHEXECUTIVE DIRECTORWASHINGTON LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTSAND URBAN AFFAIRS

Seth Stoughton is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he is affiliated with the Rule of Law Collaborative. His work on the regulation of police has appeared in top academic journals and national media, including The New York Times and The Atlantic. He teaches in the area of criminal law and procedure.

Seth served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department for five years. In that time, he trained other officers in report writing, helped create policies to govern the use of new technologies, earned multiple instructor and operator certifications, and received a Formal Achievement Award for his role as a found-ing member of the Special Response Team. After leaving the police department, Seth spent three years as an Investigator in the Florida Department of Education's Office of Inspector General, where he handled a variety of criminal and adminis-trative investigations.

Seth earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty at South Carolina, Seth was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Follow him on Twitter @PoliceLawProf.

SETH STOUGHTONASSISTANT PROFESSORUNIV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW

Professor Karen Tokarz is an internationally recognized expert in dispute resolution and clinical legal education, and she has been named to Best Lawyers in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution since 2010. Her scholarship addresses public interest law issues, including clinical legal education, dispute resolution, judicial selection, and elder law. Director of the law school’s Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Program, she is past director of the school’s highly ranked Clinical Education Program. Professor Tokarz is a certified Neutral for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, and serves on the Missouri Supreme Court ADR Commission and on the U.S. District Court ADR Advisory Committee. In 2008–09, she was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, based in the Program on Negotiation, and served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal in South Africa, consulting on international dispute resolution.

Professor Tokarz is the founder of the law school's Global Public Interest Law & Conflict Resolution Initiative. Over the past 15 years, she has coordinated field placements for more than 180 law students with legal aid offices, human rights organizations, and tribunals in South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as Brazil, Chile, Panama, Cambodia, India, China, Italy, and Thailand. She also coordinates the law school’s Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series, now in its 19th year. Professor Tokarz is the recipient of several teaching and client advocacy awards, including Washington University’s Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award, the Student Bar Assocation Experiential Professor of the Year, and the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Instructor of the year.

Professor Tokarz served on the Ferguson Commission Municipal Working Group and co-chairs the Municipal Justice subcommittee of the Missouri Supreme Court Commission on Racial & Ethnic Fairness. She is a member of the advisory commit-tee for the National Center for State Courts National Task Force on Fines, Fees & Bail Practices, and has participated in recent conclaves on fees, fines, and bail practices at the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

KAREN TOKARZPROFESSORWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF LAW

Jennifer Walter, customizes services, workshop curricula, and consultation to promote social justice change within and across multi-disciplinary professional groups in tribal and non-tribal communities (courts, child welfare, education, law-enforcement, probation, mental health, etc.) Customizes services, workshop curricula, and consultation to promote social justice change within and across multi-disciplinary professional groups in tribal and non-tribal communities (courts, child welfare, education, law-enforcement, probation, mental health, etc.) Area of specialty is using the power of collaboration to assist individuals, groups and organizations in their partnerships by: identifying needs, collecting actionable data, communicating real-life impacts, building alliances, implementing measurable solutions, making solutions visible and replicable, and strategically using levers for social change so that changes are lasting. Work experience includes over twenty-year career as a lawyer for the California Judicial Council where she led a statewide tribal needs assessment, obtained funding for and launched a unit focused on tribal/state relations, served as lead counsel to the California Tribal Court State Court Forum (a statewide coalition of tribal and state court judges initiated to identify issues concerning the working relationships between tribal and state courts in California), and developed statewide policies relating to children, youth, families and concurrent jurisdiction of tribal and state courts. Before joining the Judicial Council in 1995, she was directing attorney of Legal Advocates for Children and Youth in San Jose, a nonprofit law office. After graduating from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1988, Ms. Walter became staff attorney at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. Before becoming an attorney, she worked as an educator in the New York City public schools where she developed and managed two county-wide programs: one for youth who had dropped out of high school and another aimed at increasing S.A.T. scores and college admission rates. Ms. Walter was admitted to the California State Bar in 1988 and received her bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. Ms. Walter is co-chair of the San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission. She lives with her wife and their daughter in Half Moon Bay, California.

JENNIFER WALTERCONSULTANT/FACILITATOR

Sujata Warrier is the Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the Battered Women’s Justice Project.

Prior to this position, she was the Director of Community Response Policy and Training of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. She continues to train and provide technical assistance to professionals in various systems such as health care, law enforcement, criminal and civil justice and human and social services on the issue of domestic violence.

Dr. Warrier received her Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She has written and published numerous articles on violence against women in the international context. She has worked at the national and international levels and has received numerous awards including: The Rev. Cheng Imm Tan Vision-ary Award; AWAKE Award for South Asian Women’s Advocacy; the Indian Chamber of Commerce Women Achievers Award and the New York 30 Women Leaders Award.

Dr. Warrier recently served on the Advisory Board of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, appointed by the Attorney General.

SUJATA WARRIERDIRECTOR OF TRAINING BATTERED WOMEN’S JUSTICE PROJECT

Claudette C. White is the Chief Judge for the Quechan Tribal Court located in Winterhaven, CA and Yuma, AZ.

In her eleven years on the bench, Chief Judge White has worked to help ensure justice to her community by collaborating with local and neighboring jurisdic-tions, working with stakeholders to develop new alternatives and by making efforts to educate state counterparts about tribal courts to ensure tribal court recognition and to strengthen comity.

Chief Judge White is a 1995 graduate of Northern Arizona University having majored in Criminal Justice and received her J.D. in 2005 from the Sandra Day O'Conner School of Law at Arizona State University with a special certificate in Federal Indian Law.

Chief Judge White serves as an appointed member to the California Tribal and State Court Forum and the Arizona Tribal, State, Federal Court Forum as well as the California Child Welfare Council.

Chief Judge White incorporates concepts of restorative justice in her court by utilizing tribal custom and tradition and focuses on alternatives to standard punitive measures.

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