Candidates named for 1994 elections.

This year's slate of candidates was selected by ACA's Nominating Committee at its meeting on Sept. Candidates for the president-elect, vice president and treasurer positions were selected along with to the Delegate Assembly, the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections and the Board of Governors Ballots will be mailed to eligible voting members prior to April 15. The following membership catego Professional I, Professional II, Executive Gold and Organizational. Only memberships with a paid dat 1994, will be eligible to vote. The closing date for the election is June 17. Please note that detai included in the front of the ballot booklet. Candidates for all of the positions are listed here, al their background.

ACA OFFICERS

President-Elect

HAROLD W. CLARKE

Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, Nebraska

I began my career in corrections as an institutional counselor at the Nebraska State Penitentiary warden and ultimately to director of the department in 1990. My formal education consists of undergr work in psychology and sociology. I am a member of numerous commissions, boards, task forces, profes and was recently published in The Black Student's Guide to College Success. I have presented at seve and serve on ACA's Coordinating Council for Congress Programs (1992-1994). I am an auditor for the Association and am chairing the Committee to Review Interactions Between the Association of State Co Administrators and ACA. In July 1992, I coordinated the Annual Security Issue of Corrections Today. I support are workplace diversity, quality management and staff empowerment. If elected, I will serv of ACA and corrections in general.

REGINALD A. WILKINSON

Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Ohio

As a career professional with more than 20 years experience with the Ohio Department of Rehabilita have served in numerous leadership capacities, including the director of training, warden and deputy director for the past three years. My many years of experience and leadership roles in corrections w to bring about "progressive change" as ACA's future president. I'm a past president of the Ohio Corr Court Services Associations. Moreover, I have chaired the following ACA committees: Chapter Presiden State and Regional Chapters, Long-term Institutions, Affirmative Action (current). I also have been other committees, including the Delegate Assembly since 1986. I earned a bachelor's and master's deg State University. My three-part platform espouses innovative leadership, achievable vision and membe appreciate your support.

Vice President

BETTY K. ADAMS

Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Youth Development, Tennessee

Betty K. Adams began her career in youth corrections as an academic instructor in a female trainin into positions responsible for monitoring legislation related to youths. After obtaining a juris doc Adams became assistant district attorney of Metropolitan Davidson County until she was asked to stru of the new Department of Youth Development. She is an adjunct instructor at Middle Tennessee State University and is involved in numerous community associations and boards. An active ACA member, she the Board of Governors and is a current member of the Executive Committee. Her participation in a va and committees has brought her to the forefront of the organization. Adams presents a charismatic le committed to continued professionalism through training, rational standards and the ongoing evaluati of programs and services.

TAMARA HOLDEN

Director, Multnomah County Community Corrections, Oregon

Thank you for the honor of being nominated for the position of vice president of ACA. I appreciate to serve the professionals in my chosen field. My career in corrections has included adult probation services, and adult prisons. During my tenure with the Utah Department of Corrections, I was deputy operations and warden of Utah State Prison's South Point Facility. My current work includes the entire spectrum of adult probation/parole services for Oregon's metropo served ACA in many capacities and am currently in my second term as treasurer. As a member of the Ex Committee, I have worked with the staff to make our organization as efficient as possible. I will co time and expertise to our Association's critical work in improving the professional standing of corr

Treasurer

DENNIS AVERY

Manager, Adult Field Services, Supervision Division, Hennepin County Bureau of Community Corrections, Minnesota

Dennis Avery has more than 24 years of experience in corrections. He has held positions as a parol and halfway house director, and as assistant superintendent in the Minnesota prison system. He is past president of the Minnesota Corrections Association, and is vice president of ACA, where h chairperson to the ACA Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Ethics Committee and the Credentials Commi Delegate Assembly. He has represented the Board of Governors on the ACA Executive Committee and has member of the Coordinating Council for Congress Programs, the President's Forum on Issues, Victims C Community Corrections Committee.

Locally, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Community Corrections Associatio of the Hennepin County Crime Victim Council and the State Probation Standards Task Force. Avery is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.

CHARLES J. KEHOE

Director, Virginia Department of Youth and Family Services, Virginia

Charles J. Kehoe has 30 years of experience in the corrections and juvenile justice field. He is p Department of Youth and Family Services in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

He has been deputy director of the Maryland Juvenile Services Agency; director of Court Services i Mich.; assistant executive director of the John Howard Association in Chicago, Ill.; a counselor and with the Illinois Youth Commission; and an intern in the federal probation system.

Kehoe has been a member of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, the ACA Standards Comm Nominating Committee, the Congress Program Committee and the Juvenile Justice Committee, and served the Board of Governors.

He holds a master's degree in social work. He received the Walter Dunbar Accreditation Achievement National Juvenile Detention Association's Donald R. Hammergren Award.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Correctional Administrator--Juvenile

JOHN SHERIDAN 

Administrator, Bureau of Residential Services, Division for Children and Youth Services, New Hamps

John Sheridan started in corrections at the Naval Retraining Command in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1958. the U.S. Marine Corps, he served as director of classification at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fo where he completed a master's program in administration of justice. Since 1977 he has worked in New deputy warden, State Prison; superintendent, Youth Development Center; and, for the past 10 years, a Bureau of Residential Services. He has been an active ACA member serving as chairman of the ACA Yout a member of the Program Council, Juvenile Justice Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Offic Justice and Delinquency Prevention grants. Sheridan has written articles for Corrections Today, is p National Association of Juvenile Correctional Agencies, currently serves as secretary-treasurer, and the Delegate Assembly. He teaches corrections-related subjects at the University of New Hampshire an

KURT C. FRIEDENAUER

Administrative Director, Idaho State Youth Services Center, Idaho

Kurt C. Friedenauer has been administrative director of the Idaho State Youth Services Center unde Department of Health and Welfare since 1982. For the past two years, he also has served as the direc of Health and Welfare's Office of Secure Detention and Assessment Services for the state of Idaho. P Idaho, he worked for a juvenile justice agency in the private sector in Illinois for 10 years.

Friedenauer is president of the National Association of Juvenile Correctional Agencies and serves Coordinating Council for Congress Programs. He is an ACA Delegate Assembly representative and is als the National Commission on Correctional Health Care's Juvenile Health Committee. He holds a bachelor social work from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.

Education

JESS MAGHAN, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Forum for Comparative Correction, Office of International Criminal Justice, Il Jess Maghan is the executive director of the Forum for Comparative Correction, University of Illinoi Maghan has organized and directed comprehensive national, state and municipal correctional training positions include training commissioner, New York City Department of Correction; director, ACA Natio Law Program; superintendent, Illinois Correctional Training Academy; and director of training, Louis Public Safety and Corrections. He received his doctoral degree from the Graduate Center, City Univer Maghan has been an active ACA member since 1971. He is past president of the International Associati Training Personnel. As vice president of the International Association of Correctional Officers (IAC IACO Commission on Certification of Higher Education in Corrections. He plans to use his extensive b the professional development concerns of all ACA members to the higher education community.

T.A. RYAN, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Director, Criminal Justice Planning, Implementation and Evaluation, University of South Carolina 

T.A. Ryan's criminal justice education career includes a doctoral degree from Stanford University Oregon State University, University of Hawaii and University of South Carolina. She has done extensi assistance and staff development in corrections. She is a life member of ACA, a member of the Intern Association of Correctional Training Personnel and Correctional Education Association, and a fellow Psychological Association (APA). She received APA's award for distinction for contributions to corre received the South Carolina Correctional Association's Distinguished Service Award. Ryan served on t Education Council and she chairs ACA's Ethics Committee. She was a Delegate Assembly member and has Board of Governors since 1990. Ryan pledges to be an active voice in governance of ACA, continuing e enhanced professionalism. In January 1994, she was awarded the Peter P. Lejins Research Award from A

At-Large Ethnic Minority (2 positions)

GWENDOLYN C. CHUNN

Director, Division of Youth Services, North Carolina Department of Human Resources, North Carolina

Gwendolyn C. Chunn is the director of the Division of Youth Services under the North Carolina Depa Resources. Having worked her way up from trainer in 1977, Chunn is well-known for her sense of infor for troubled young people and those who work with them. She obtained a bachelor's degree from NCCU a degree from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Additionally, she is the recipient of the Funded Leadership Development Program-Southeast. She also is a graduate of the Justice Executive Pro Government Executives' Program, and the Superintendents' Executive Program at the Institute of Gover Hill. Chunn has served as a mentor for many young female professionals and as an advocate for childr staff. She has been a member of the ACA Board of Governors since 1990.

JAMES DuPREE JR.

Executive Assistant Youth Services Director, Department of Youth Services, Alabama James DuPree is a veteran youth services employee, having begun his career in 1974 as a line worker. worked as a caseworker, social services supervisor, and superintendent at two facilities, one of whi receive ACA accreditation in Alabama. DuPree served as Alabama's assistant administrator for institu September 1990 has been executive assistant youth services director. He holds a bachelor's degree fr and a master's in social work from the University of Alabama. DuPree has served as president of seve and is a long time ACA member. He also is a senior auditor for the Commission on Accreditation for C and is a corrections consultant. His experience and expertise at varying levels of practice and mana an immediate contributing member of the Board of Governors.

ELOY L. MONDRAGON

Secretary, New Mexico Corrections Department, New Mexico Since 1962, Eloy Mondragon has worked in the corrections field in various positions, including juven counselor, professional services assistant director at the New Mexico Boys' School, deputy superinte of the New Mexico Girls' School, superintendent of the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center, ward the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility, adult prisons division director, deputy secretary of of the Corrections Department and first deputy monitor for the Puerto Rico prison system. He also ha and criminal justice instructor at New Mexico State University. He received a bachelor's degree in s with a minor in psychology and a master's of business administration in management. He has taken gra special education and correctional administration. He has served as a member of the ACA Justice in S Committee and as an ACA auditor for the past year, as well as governor-appointed committees involvin

JOHN E. MOORE 

Deputy Director for Programs, Virginia Department of Youth and Family Services, Virginia

John Moore has an extensive background that includes probation, institutional and administrative e states. He has a master's degree in guidance and counseling from Troy State University in Troy, Ala. commissioner for Institutional Programs for seven years at South Carolina's Youth Services Departmen positions in Alabama's youth agencies from 1972 to 1983. Moore served as field probation officer, co and halfway houses, director of release and aftercare, and coordinator of advocacy units for committ Moore has been with the Virginia Department of Youth and Family Services since 1990 and is currently all state programs and learning centers for juvenile offenders. He has numerous professional members as a consultant for ACA and an auditor for the ACA Commission on Accreditation for Corrections.

At-Large Citizen

LAWRENCE A. GREENFELD

Acting Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, District of Columbia 

My corrections career has spanned 25 years, beginning as a probation counselor in Virginia followe and federal government. As acting director of BJS, I'm responsible for overseeing a variety of natio the production of more than 50 publications, and the dissemination of more than 1.5 million copies o undergraduate and graduate degrees are in criminology, and I have authored more than 50 statistical probation, jails, prisons, parole and death-row populations. I have spoken at numerous corrections c the ACA Congress of Correction and Winter Conference. I have conducted seminars for ACA staff on cor I was honored to receive the ACA's 1992 Peter P. Lejins Award for Research. I serve on ACA's Researc and the International Relations Committee. I believe my background as a practitioner, researcher and assist in helping formulate ACA policy through the Board of Governors.

JAMES F. KYLE

Senator Chairman, Select Oversight Committee on Corrections, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee

James F. Kyle has served in the Tennessee Senate since 1983. He is a partner of the law firm Chamb Durham and is an active trial lawyer with experience in civil and criminal law. He has been a member and House Select Oversight Committee on Corrections since its creation in 1986 and chairman since 19 Tennessee's federal litigation concerning its prisons was dismissed and all 11 Tennessee prisons und accredited by ACA. He has held numerous Senate positions, including vice-chairman of the Environment Conservation Committee and member of the Senate Judiciary and Education Committees. Kyle plans to us of his background to bring a combination of political, legal, legislative and correctional knowledge Governors and to actively participate in supporting ACA as it continues to strengthen the profession

At-Large (Private non-profit or profit)

J. DAVID CHEVEALLIER

Vice President - Western Region, Volunteers of America Inc., Oregon As an active ACA member for 20 years, I have served on the Community Corrections Committee, the Coun Professional Affiliates and the Delegate Assembly. I am a past board member of the International Hal Association and an active member of the International Association of Residential and Community Alter served Volunteers of America (VOA) since 1975, acting as president/CEO of two of its chartered local VOA Greater Baton Rouge and VOA Northern Texas. In 1984, Gov. Edwin W. Edwards appointed me to a spe to study the Louisiana Criminal Justice System. Since 1990, I have been the Western Regional Vice Pr continue to be our organization's national spokesperson for correctional services.

I would appreciate the opportunity to take my extensive corrections experience and contribute to t growth of our Board of Governors.

JAMES J. LAWRENCE

CEO, Oriana House Inc., Ohio

I have 20 years experience in community corrections and a master's degree in sociology/corrections of an agency at the forefront in offering residential and non-residential community corrections prog I am president of the International Association of Residential and Community Alternatives, an associ 300 private agencies operating more than 1,500 community corrections programs. I serve on the Ohio C Sentencing Commission and National Advisory Board for the Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy. Ot associations include the Ohio Correctional and Courts Services Association, American Probation and P Association and American Jail Association.

An ACA member since 1984, I would use my experience and knowledge to work with the Association in development and policies and standards for community corrections. This would assist the community co field to become recognized as a legitimate and integral part of sound correctional policy.

COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION FOR CORRECTIONS

Probation (Adult)

MICHAEL PARSONS 

Deputy Director, Employee and Offender Development, Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Oklahoma

I have worked for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in several positions, including five year medium security institution, deputy warden, program director and superintendent. Prior to that I wor the states of Pennsylvania and Tennessee in various capacities, including correctional officer, case I also have experience as an executive director for a private halfway house in Oklahoma. I have a do in adult education from the University of Oklahoma, as well as a master's degree in sociology. I am Oklahoma Correctional Association. I have served on the ACA Advisory Committee on Resolutions and Po Development and am also an auditor for the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections.

CLARENCE B. WILLIAMSON

Deputy Chief Probation Officer, Cook County Adult Probation Department, Illinois

Since 1971, Clarence B. Williamson has been employed by the Cook County Adult Probation Department variety of assignments, which include 10 years as a court hearing officer and presentence investigat of the Illinois Interstate Compact Division and two and one-half years as deputy chief of the Home C Division.

In 1977, Williamson received his bachelor's degree from Chicago State University and was awarded a degree from the same institution in 1979. In 1980, he was a representative for one year in the Gener State of Illinois. He served as an ACA Delegate Assembly representative in 1989 and was elected vice National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, Illinois Chapter. He also was a member on the Bo the Illinois Correctional Association.

Long-term Institution (Adult)

RICHARD L. STALDER

Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Louisiana

My career began in 1971 as a correctional security officer, and I have since worked in all facets service as the department's budget director and superintendent, deputy warden and warden. In January appointed secretary. I have a bachelor's and master's degree in economics. I am a member of ACA and organizations and serve as a consultant auditor for the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. pleasure in 1991 to initiate and supervise as warden of the ACA/CAC accreditation of Wade Correction first accredited state prison in Louisiana's history.

Our agency has accredited 10 of 12 adult prisons and will, within the next six months, realize the adult and juvenile facilities and the Division of Probation and Parole. My commitment to the process level of accomplishment. I ask for your support and vote.

WALTER B. RIDLEY

Former Director, Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections, District of Columbia Walter Ridley is the former director of the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections. He has more experience in the field of public safety, specifically in criminal justice, having served in manager from the substance abuse treatment arena to executive-level correctional management. He is highly re and auditor with the ACA Commission on Accreditation.

Ridley is a well-known lecturer and field instructor at several major universities. Prior to being served the District's Department of Corrections in various capacities, including deputy director, as administrator of several correctional facilities. In 1985 he left the Department of Corrections upon Mayor as the chairperson of the District of Columbia Board of Parole.

Ridley earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in counseling psychology from in Missouri. He is the recipient of numerous professional, civic, and religious awards and citations several professional associations.

Juvenile Court Judge

LEODIS HARRIS

Juvenile Court Judge, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Ohio

Judge Leodis Harris is serving his third six-year term in the Juvenile Division of the Cuyahoga Co Pleas in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as the judge who wears a blue-denim robe in delinquency hearings, Ha nationally and internationally in the media and has participated in two Asian-Pacific conferences on In 1990, Harris was elected administrative judge on the Cuyahoga County six-member Juvenile Court. I position, he spearheaded many court and community initiatives, including a federally funded pilot ju also founded the Cuyaboga County Children's Roundtable, which meets monthly and serves as a coordina and forum for all the child-serving public agencies of greater Cleveland. Harris will bring relevant to the ACA process.

LUKE QUINN

Juvenile Court Judge (Ret.), Michigan Judge Luke Quinn received his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky State College and his juris do Wayne State Law School. For a number of years he was chairman of the National Association of Countie Juvenile Justice. He currently serves on the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections.

Quinn was an early advocate for the removal of status offenders from court jurisdiction and the re from adult jails. He became known nationally for his views and has spoken on the subject throughout Quinn regards his nomination as a high honor. He is extremely pleased at the prospect of continuing ACA Commission on Accreditation because he believes that ACA has been and will continue to be effect about positive change in the correctional system.

Probation (Juvenile)

TERESA V. RAMIREZ

Executive Director, Harris County Juvenile Probation Dept., Division of Juvenile Justice Services,

A career social worker for 16 years, Teresa Ramirez received her bachelor's degree from the Univer Paso; her master's in social work from the University of Houston; and her law degree from the Univer School of Law. Prior to promotion to assistant chief and then executive director, she worked in plac for the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department. She currently chairs a state legislative commit Texas Probation Association representing chief probation officers across the state. She is known for nationwide and is a staunch friend and advocate of children, believing in innovative rehabilitation Ramirez would like to bring her experience as executive director of one of the largest probation dep as well as her legal background to ACA program and policy development.

JESSE E. WILLIAMS JR.

Deputy Commissioner, Philadelphia Dept. of Human Services, Div. of Juvenile Justice Services, Penn

Jesse E. Williams Jr. currently serves as deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Hu Division of Juvenile Justice Services. He is responsible for the management of the city's juvenile j as the implementation of systems reforms with the family court and other stakeholders in the system.

Before coming to Philadelphia, he served as administrator of the Youth Services Administration in assistant secretary for administration for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and the Maryland Juvenile Services Administration. He has been honored by the Philadelphia Court of Comm Family Court Division for excellence in juvenile justice, and is named in Who's Who in the Delaware

Community Based Services (Adult)

ARTHUR McDONALD 

President, Eclectic Communications Inc., South Dakota 

Arthur McDonald founded Eclectic Communications Inc. in 1977 after having run halfway houses for f past 20 years he has been instrumental in helping to develop community corrections projects. McDonal degree from Fresno Pacific College and a master of social work degree from California State Universi He has an honorary doctorate from Sioux Falls College in Sioux Falls, S.D. McDonald served as presid International Halfway House Association, now called the International Association of Residential and Alternatives for two years. He has served as a consultant program auditor for the Commission on Accr Corrections for community programs for many years and has served two terms on the ACA Community Corr Committee.

McDonald believes that community corrections is a positive part of the continuum of sanctions avai

MICHAEL YOUNGKEN

Director of Corrections, Johnson County Community Corrections, Kansas

I have been employed in the corrections field in various capacities over the past 20 years, primar experience has been community-based, mainly residential, in the private and public sectors. Currentl department that provides a wide continuum of services, including residential, intensive supervision, add day reporting.

I have a bachelor's degree in sociology, am chairperson of the Kansas Correctional Association Leg state provincial director to the International Association of Residential and Community Alternatives Kansas Community Corrections Association, American Probation and Parole Association Advisory Board m co-chairperson for the State Standards Committee, and Kansas Sentencing Commission Task Force member Transition of Offenders into the Community. I also have served as an auditor/consultant for ACA sinc

I have a strong commitment to the accreditation process. As an administrator and accreditation man have achieved accreditation, including two that received 100 percent ratings.

DELEGATE ASSEMBLY

Parole or Post-Release Supervision (Adult)

JO C. BENNETT

Interstate Compact Administrator, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi

Jo C. Bennett completed her bachelor of science degree in criminal justice at Delta State Universi and her master's degree in social science at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. She c of compact administrator, overseeing the operations of Interstate Compact, Community Service Records Entry offices.

Having previously worked as a police officer, she began her career in corrections as a vocational with the Job Placement Office at Mississippi State Penitentiary. She also served with the Department capacities of classification case manager, psychiatrist assistant, probation and parole officer, dru and pre-trial diversion coordinator.

Bennett serves as president of the Parole/Probation Compact Administrators Association and is a me American Probation and Parole Association and Mississippi Association of Professionals in Correction

BARBARA L. SUTTON

Regional Chief, Division of Probation and Parole, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Wisconsin

Barbara L. Sutton has worked for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections since 1976, serving as a agent for seven years, a social service supervisor for seven years and as regional chief for three y was a juvenile probation officer for the Maricopa County Juvenile Court Center in Phoenix, Ariz., fr Sutton received a bachelor of science degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Wisc did graduate coursework at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently president of the Wi Correctional Association (WCA) and has also served as president-elect, state agency representative, coordinator. She has served as the appointed ACA Delegate Assembly representative for WCA for the pa years and is currently a member of ACA's Probation, Parole and Supervised Release Committee.

Probation (Adult)

MARIO A. PAPOROZZI

Assistant Bureau Chief, New Jersey Bureau of Parole, New Jersey

In 1973 I began a career as a parole officer with the New Jersey Bureau of Parole. Little did I kn would have worked my way through the ranks to my current position as assistant bureau chief. My enri in the Bureau of Parole were only surpassed by my involvement in numerous professional and academic such as the New Jersey Chapter of ACA, the American Probation and Parole Association, the Academy of Justice Sciences and the American Society of Criminology.

Currently, I am serving a three-year term as a county legislator, where I have significant involve issues. I am currently completing a doctoral degree in criminology and have been very active over th writing about probation and parole. Your support for this position will be greatly appreciated.

ROCCO A. POZZI

Commissioner of Probation, Westchester County, New York 

Rocco A. Pozzi has been the commissioner of probation for Westchester County since 1989. He is cur of the American Probation and Parole Association, as well as president of the "Big Seven" Committee New York State Council of Probation Administrators. Pozzi began his career in 1973 as a probation of Philadelphia Adult Probation Department, becoming deputy chief probation officer in 1985. He is a gr State University and has a master's degree in public administration with an emphasis on judicial adm Temple University. During 1993, he completed the Kennedy School of Government's Program for Senior E Harvard University. He is involved with various professional organizations, has served on numerous n and is in frequent demand as a speaker at national and regional conferences.

Private Community-Based Organizations (4 positions)

MARVIN M. BOSTIC

Program Director, Magdala Foundation, Missouri

Marvin M. Bostic is program director of a residential treatment facility for the Magdala Foundatio working in community corrections for the last 10 years. He has previously held positions as the assi and resident counselor with the agency.

Bostic received his master of science degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is in th his master's in social work from Washington University in St. Louis. He has been an ACA member since a recognized associate substance abuse counselor II in Missouri.

SHIRLEY J. JOHNSON

Executive Director, Kansas City Community Center Inc., Missouri

Shirley Johnson is founder of the Kansas City Community Center Inc., a not-for-profit corporation to corrections clients in Missouri, Florida and Arizona. The center also provides alcohol/drug recov three locations in the Kansas City area.

Prior to founding the Kansas City Community Center, Johnson worked for the Missouri Department of was a caseworker in the work release program and the assistant superintendent of the Kansas City Hon 1974 to 1982. Johnson received her bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in counselin

In 1989, she was given the "Spirit of Kansas City" Award by the Mayor of Kansas City for her work Under her direction, the Kansas City Community Center has grown from an annual income of $340,000 in and alcohol/drug treatment to $5 million in FY94.

JOHN J. LARIVEE

Executive Director, Crime and Justice Foundation, Massachusetts

John Larivee began his career in 1972 as a correctional counselor working in two county jails. He Justice Foundation in 1974, becoming its executive director in 1985. Under his direction, the founda national development of day reporting centers. It introduced the concept to Massachusetts, assisting department to open the first day center and operates the center serving Boston. Based on that work, Department of Justice-published monograph, Managing the Development of Community Corrections, and as interested in developing day centers and other community corrections programs.

Larivee has been an ACA member for several years. He serves as chairman of the governor's Advisory Services and on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Residential and Communit Massachusetts Halfway Houses.

CHRISTOPHER S. LINDHOLM

Executive Vice President, Behavioral Systems Southwest, California

Since 1980, Christopher Lindholm has worked for Behavioral Systems Southwest (BSS), a private corr corporation, specializing in residential treatment programming and community corrections center serv held a variety of positions at BSS and is currently executive vice president, supervising the operat corrections centers and a drinking driver program. He received his bachelor's degree in finance from Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his master's of business administration degree from the Universi La Verne, Calif. Through the Delegate Assembly, Lindholm hopes to utilize his prior experience in co residential treatment and business to foster a stronger working relationship between government and

JANE O'SHAUGHNESSY

Chief Executive Officer, Rebound Corporation, Colorado

Jane O'Shaughnessy has been a child welfare worker and a juvenile probation officer, managed a com and taught in the Social Work School at St. Louis University. Between 1976 and 1985, O'Shaughnessy s the deputy executive director of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. In 1985, Gov. Rich her to the Colorado State Parole Board. In 1986, she joined Rebound as its chief executive officer. O'Shaughnessy is a former Board member of ACA, the International Halfway House Association and the A Programs for Female Offenders. She is a founding member of the ACA Women's Task Force and the author program development, standards and accreditation. She holds a master's of social work from St. Louis O'Shaughnessy will use her extensive experience in juvenile and adult corrections to develop program ACA as a member of the Delegate Assembly.

GREG PEASE

Executive Director, Gastineau Human Services Corporation, Alaska

Greg Pease is the executive director of the Gastineau Human Services Corporation, a private non-pr Alaska. The first CRC in the state and the oldest substance abuse residential treatment program in A operates 13 different programs, including a misdemeanant center, drug testing facility, community wo vocational training program and the correctional center treatment program. Pease is the state direct International Association of Residential and Community Alternatives-Alaska, past chairman of the Mun Health and Social Services Advisory Board, chairman of the Juneau Chemical Dependency Hospital Board the Association for Correctional Research and Information Management and a member of the ACA Substan Advisory Committee. He has a bachelor's degree in society and justice from the University of Washing justice from Arizona State University and in public administration from the University of Alaska-Sou

RAYMOND L. PEACOCK

Lieutenant Colonel, National Corrections Liaison, The Salvation Army - National Headquarters, Virg

Since 1991, Raymond Peacock has been the national corrections liaison for The Salvation Army. As l recommendations for corrections policy to Salvation Army administration and helps plan The Salvation Sessions for the ACA Congress of Correction. Peacock holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and psyc Verne College in California and a master's of social work degree from the University of Hawaii. Lt. commissioned as a Salvation Army Officer in June 1964 and has been involved in corrections work for past 30 years. He has directed pre-release programs, served as contract and evaluation officer for c programs, served as the Delegate Assembly representative for The Salvation Army for the past two yea member of the Community Corrections Committee and the Professional Affiliate Council. Peacock would of alternative sentencing and implementation of model programs that work.

JEFFREY F. VARONE

Chief Operating Officer, Hope Village Inc., District of Columbia

Since 1985, Jeffrey Varone has served as chief operating officer for Hope Village Inc., a communit serving the District of Columbia and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He received an associate of scie justice/law enforcement administration in 1977 from Brandywine College in Wilmington, Del. He has se administrative aide in the FBI Criminal Investigative Division and as deputy U.S. Marshall assigned vision.

Varone has an appreciation for the legacy and benefits we all receive from more than a century of correctional professionals. He plans to use his criminal justice and private sector experience to fa of programs and policies for all ACA members and with the charge that he will be a voice of concern correctional organizations in the Delegate Assembly.

Ex-Offender (2 positions)

JUDY KINGMAN

Consultant, Writer, Editor, Oregon

Judy Kingman is a writer, editor and consultant in criminal justice and corrections issues. In 199 founding and managing editor of Prison Fellowship's Washington, D.C.-based inmate newspaper, Inside more directly for the public and media's understanding of the corrections crisis facing America. As Journal, whose readership is an estimated half of America's inmates, Kingman has unique experience s inmates--and has received and read more than 12,000 letters from them. She has served as director an community organizations and received awards for her community service. She was accepted into the hon undergraduate work at Portland State University and studied journalism at Carroll College. Kingman h progress: a progressive paradigm for crime prevention and a criminal justice primer for general read

WILLIAM H. MEREDITH

Director, Administration of Justice Program, Cloud County Community College, Kansas

Since 1982, William Meredith has worked at the Cloud County Community College in Concordia, Kan., Administrative Data Processing, and as an instructor in the areas of business and computer science. years, Meredith has taught and coordinated the criminal justice courses at CCCC. In 1992, he was app the newly created Administration of Justice Program, which he immediately began to develop. Today, t approved by the Department of Education for the state of Kansas. Meredith received his master's of p with an emphasis on criminal justice from Indiana University. He also has a two-year diploma in Bibl Liberty University. Meredith has been an ACA member for two years. He would like to work with ACA in accreditation of community colleges and universities with programs in corrections and seeking greate ex-offenders in the area of corrections employment.

JAY M. NEWBERGER

Director of Court Services, Unified Judicial System, South Dakota

I am a graduate and former mayor of Father Flanagans Boys Home in Boys Town, Neb. Through 17 years I earned a master's degree in sociology and one in public administration. Further, I'm a Fellow of t Management and a graduate of the University of Southern California Graduate School's Corrections Exe worked for seven years in a private correctional institution, followed by 10 years as a probation of detention services and court referee. During the past 19 years, I have served as director of court s for all probation services, youth services and domestic relations services. Since 1987, I have serve administrator for juvenile compact and adult probation. I am a former member of the ACA's Commission Accreditation for Corrections. If you believe I could represent your interests on our Delegate Assem your vote.

RICHARD C. WERTZ

National Director, State and Special Projects, Justice Fellowship, Virginia

Since joining the staff of Justice Fellowship four years ago, Richard Wertz has worked with legisl judicial policy makers in more than 12 states to promote alternative-to-incarceration programs for n restitution for crime victims and prison work programs that teach usable job skills and a positive w Fellowship is Prison Fellowship's public policy arm. In 1993, Wertz spearheaded Justice Fellowship's campaign in North Carolina aimed at incorporating restorative justice concepts and programs into the and correctional reform initiatives. From 1970 to 1980, he served as executive director of the Maryl Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, and as the governor of Maryland's s for justice and correctional matters.

Institutions--Juvenile (2 positions)

DAVE ALEXINAS

Accreditation Administrator, Ohio Department of Youth Services, Ohio

Since 1968, Dave Alexinas has worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services in a variety of adm including nine years as an institutional service supervisor, four years as a parole service supervis state licensing representative, three years as the agency administrator for program audits, and curr accreditation administrator. Within that capacity, he also has served a three-year dual role as the deputy director for institutions. He has been an active ACA auditor for the past two years. Alexinas degree in psychology from Ohio Northern University and a master's degree in corrections from Xavier Cincinnati. He is a member of the Ohio Correctional and Court Services Association and the Correctio Managers Association. Alexinas will use his vast experience in juvenile corrections and policy devel correctional development for ACA in the area of juvenile institutions.

PARKES CASSELBURY

Director of Quality Management, Department of Youth Development, Tennessee

Since 1975, Parkes Casselbury has worked in adult and youth corrections. Beginning her career as a first female group home in Tennessee, she has worked in a variety of adult and juvenile facilities. appointed assistant director of accreditation. Upon the establishment of the Department of Youth Dev became director of Quality Management. The department is now fully accredited. Since 1987, Casselbur actively involved in ACA as the Correctional Accreditation Managers Association representative to th Assembly, a member of the ACA Women in Corrections Committee and chairwoman of the Council of Profes Affiliates. She is an ACA auditor and was a site visitor for the Conditions of Confinement Study fun Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Casselbury holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and Rhodes College and attended Vanderbilt Divinity School in Tennessee.

RONALD L. STEPANIK

Director, Juvenile Justice Services, Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives Inc., Florida

A 23-year veteran of juvenile corrections, Ronald Stepanik began his career as a teacher with the Commission. He has been superintendent of three training schools, one detention center, and was assi for the Ohio Department of Youth Services. He is a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice's C the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, a member of ACA's Delegate Assembly, a member of ACA's Board Governors representing Community-based Corrections (Adult and Juvenile); and an ACA auditor and cons holds a bachelor of science degree in education from Ohio University and a master of science degree Akron University.

JOHN DANTIS

Director, Bernalillo County Detention Center, New Mexico

John Dantis has worked in juvenile services for more than 20 years, beginning his career as a juve He is currently the director of the Juvenile Detention Center and the Bernalillo County Detention Ce worked for almost two years in various capacities with Clark County Juvenile Court Services in Las V member of the National Juvenile Detention Association and the New Mexico Council on Crime and Delinq received his master's degree in social work, concentrating on planning, policy and administration, f Highlands University.

At-Large Citizen (3 positions)

PENELOPE (PENNY) S. ANDERSON

Chairwoman, Virginia Board of Corrections, Virginia

Since 1986, Penny Anderson has served on the Virginia Board of Corrections. She is currently the c chaired the Administration and Policy Committees. The board has policy oversight for the Virginia De Corrections--an agency with 9,627 employees and an annual budget of $816 million. Other committee as included the Virginia Council on Coordinating Prevention, the Prevention Task Force for Department o Family Services, and the Human Research Review Committee/Department of Corrections.

Anderson also is acting secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As acting secretary, she heads state agencies, legislators, local governments, other states, and federal governments--United States A long-time community activist--especially in community corrections, Anderson is a member of ACA, Of Restoration, the Y.M.C.A. and the Virginia Probation and Parole Association.

ILENE R. BERGSMANN

Associate Director for Planning and Development, Cook County Judicial Advisory Council, Illinois

Ilene Bergsmann has worked for the federal, state, local and national levels of various juvenile a agencies, including the Federal Prison System, Virginia Department of Youth and Family Services, and Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. She has worked on issues as diverse as female offender planning and a national study on probation. Bergsmann received her master's of education in counselo from the University of Virginia. Currently, she is a member of the ACA Constitution and Bylaws Commi served on the steering committee of the Women in Corrections Committee and on the Community Correcti Committee.

MARYANN CASS 

Lieutenant Colonel, Senior Correctional Treatment Specialist,

U S. Army Clemency and Parole Board, District of Columbia As the senior correctional treatment specialist for the Army Clemency and Parole Board, Washington, of the Army's liaison with Army staff, Army commands and U.S. Parole Officers. I have served as a mi officer for the past 18 years and have worked in several military prisons, including the Mannheim Co Germany and the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. I have a master's degree in cor member of the ACA, and the American Jail Association. I currently serve on the steering committee of in Corrections Committee and am chairwoman of the ACA Military Affairs Committee. If elected to the Assembly, I will use my experience to represent the Association and actively participate in the deve of programs and policies.

NOLAN E. JONES

Director, Justice and Public Safety, National Governors' Association, District of Columbia

Since 1978, Nolan Jones has worked at the National Governors' Association (NGA) as the director of Safety, developing conferences and seminars for the nation's governors that focus on corrections and Over the years, Jones has asked state corrections directors and other professionals in the field to about issues facing corrections.

Prior to joining the NGA's staff, he was assistant professor of political science at the Universit Arbor. He holds a doctorate degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis and Wilson Dissertation Fellow. Jones also has served a two-year term on the council of the American Pol Association.

As a member of ACA's Delegate Assembly, Jones would continue efforts at bringing together governor to enhance understanding and appreciation of the tremendous task of managing the corrections field.

MARJ MARLETTE

Corrections Writer/Editor, Nebraska

Marj Marlette is founder and board member of Transitional Life Center, a new program for women com and is a former member of the Nebraska Board of Parole. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism fr of Nebraska. For 25 years she reported in-depth on all levels of corrections, developing prisons as the Lincoln Journal. For five years she edited Corrections Compendium. She has served on state and l including jail studies, corrections education, pre-release and pre-trial diversion. She has been act the 1970s and was a member of the ACA Female Offender Task Force. She also has served as secretary o Correctional Association. As a member of the Delegate Assembly, Marlette plans to use her broad gene corrections and her experience working with women offenders to help develop programs and policies fo

GINNY L. WOOD

Legal Assistant, Missouri Attorney General's Office, Missouri

Since November 1984, Ginny Wood has worked for the Missouri Attorney General's Office in the Litig which represents the Missouri Department of Corrections and its employees in lawsuits filed against Wood received a bachelor's degree in paralegal studies and business administration from William Wood Fulton, Mo., and is pursuing her master's degree in criminal justice administration through Central University in Warrensburg, Mo. She is immediate past president of the Missouri Corrections Associati served as vice-president and president-elect, was elected to the Legislative Committee, and has been Committee for six years. Wood also has served as an appointed ACA Delegate Assembly representative a in the Central States Corrections Association meetings.

Institutional Line Operating Personnel--Adult (2 positions)

RONALD ANDRING SR.

Correctional Officer, Washington State Penitentiary, Washington

Since 1979, Ronald Andring has been employed at the Washington State Penitentiary as a correctiona sergeant, and administrative assistant 3. He was part of the Department of Corrections' projects to of Values and the Multi-State Standards Audit of Northwest prisons. Andring earned a bachelor's degr Washington University and is pursuing a master's of public administration degree. He was recently re Dean's Scholar for being in the top 10 percent of his class. He has served on ACA's Correctional Emp since 1990 and is a regular contributor to and reviewer for Corrections Today and other professional treasurer for the Washington Correctional Association and served as its membership chairman for two member since 1990. He received WCA'a 1993 Special Award for Outstanding Service.

MATT CHRISTIAN

Accreditation Manager, Anvil Mountain Correctional Center, Alaska

I began my career with the Alaska Department of Corrections in 1982 at Fairbanks Correctional Cent line officer and assistant shift supervisor for four years. I then transferred to Anvil Mountain Cor Nome, where I have worked for eight years. My duties included line officer, assistant shift supervis officer for six years. I became the accreditation manager, disciplinary chairperson and institutiona officer in 1992. My organization affiliations include president of the Board of Directors for Turnin and Nome Volunteer Ambulance Service as an emergency medical technician I and lieutenant. I feel tha experience will allow me to represent corrections and be an asset in the development of ACA policies

JAMES CLARK 

Correctional Officer Sergeant, Prince George's County Correctional Center, Maryland

I have spent 21 years of service in responsible leadership positions, 12 years in public administr correctional management. I am an alumnus of Susquehanna University majoring in sociology and psychol serving on the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee at Prince George's (Md.) County Community College have served on the ACA Membership Committee and the ACA Correctional Employees Committee. I have ser appointed ACA Delegate Assembly representative for the International Association of Correctional Off and hope to continue to serve as your elected representative. I would like to utilize my experience relations and ACA committees to expand the role of line staff personnel by actively participating in programs and policies for the ACA as a member of the Delegate Assembly.

CATHY MANSELL

Staff Development Specialist, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi

Cathy Mansell has worked in the criminal justice system in the state of Mississippi since 1973, sp years in corrections. She began as a clerk typist and has served as a presentence investigator, fiel director of a restitution center, and training coordinator. She held the position of training direct Attorney General's office and during this time she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Nat Prosecutors Coordinators. She has served as executive director of the Mississippi Prosecutors Associ received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Mississippi. She is the imme the Southern States Correctional Association (SSCA). She has served as the appointed ACA Delegate As for SSCA and is active in her home state's correctional association. Mansell welcomes the opportunit experience in corrections and professional organizations to work for the ACA membership.

Correctional Education Services--Adult Academic

SUSAN EGAN 

Vocational Coordinator, Scott Correctional Facility, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan

With 23 years of experience as an educator, 20 years in corrections, I seek your support. I've ser the 1980s and again in 1992. I've held the offices of vice-president, secretary, treasurer and regio Correctional Education Association, as well as numerous committee memberships and chairmanships. I coordinated the Correctional Education section of the February 1993 issue of Corrections Today, ta session of the NIC course on Correctional Education Administration and served as a correctional educ five states. With three years experience as a high school English teacher, six years with the Illino Corrections as an education specialist for juveniles, nine years with the California Youth Authority and institutional administration for youthful offenders, and five years with the Michigan Department recently as vocational coordinator for female offenders, I bring a wide range and depth of experienc education in the ACA Delegate Assembly.

STEPHEN J. STEURER, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Correctional Education Association, Maryland

Stephen Steurer is the coordinator for academic education for the adult prison system in Maryland. also worked part time as the executive director of the International Correctional Education Associat create nationally recognized inmate peer tutoring and special education programs. Steurer is current Maryland's curriculum to include more emphasis on workplace literacy, transitioning and support serv family living skills, substance-abuse and sexually transmitted disease education, critical thinking, skills. Nationally, CEA has almost doubled membership in seven years. The association also has been ABC-TV's Project Literacy and, with PBS, has developed seven national interactive training teleconfe and industry, the special adult learner and assessment and instruction for literacy education progra effectively on U.S. federal legislation for vocational and career education, Chapter I Pell grants a Act. If elected to the Delegate Assembly, he is determined to be a strong voice for inmate education ACA.

Institutions--Adult (2 positions)

LUELLA BURKE

Warden, Saginaw Regional Correctional Facility, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan

Since joining the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) in 1978, Luella Burke has progressed s positions, including substance abuse coordinator, Camp Program; specialist in the Program Bureau; as deputy warden of programs, maximum security facility; consent decree coordinator, five years; warden facility, five years; and currently, warden, multi-level, 1,200-bed regional facility.

Prior to MDOC, Burke was a county jail coordinator for inmate education programs for four years an college instructor for five years. Additional service in the field of corrections includes current c Council for Congress Programs (1992-94); previous member, Coordinating Council for Congress Programs and 1987); chairperson, ACA's Michigan Women's Task Force; member, ACA Long-Range Planning Committee Ethics Committee; and chairperson, 1986 Conference of Michigan Corrections Association. Having been ACA member for years, Burke looks forward to representing adult institutions as a member of the Dele

C.M. (MARTY) LENSING

Warden, Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Lou

Marty Lensing's achievements include recipient of the ACA Award for Outstanding Leadership; a voti Congress of Correction; a member of NU's Nationwide Task Force on Correctional Substance Abuse Strat of the National Multi-Site Study on Shock Incarceration; and president of the Louisiana Council of C He is currently the president of the Louisiana Correctional Association. He holds a bachelor's degre master's degree in criminal justice. Lensing has been employed in Louisiana corrections since 1975 w and adult facilities, including five years as warden and 4.5 years as deputy warden at Elayn Hunt Co (Adult Reception and Diagnostic Center), three years beginning at age 27 as the deputy warden of Lou Penitentiary (largest maximum security prison in the United States), and one year as the deputy supe

STEPHEN F. PONTESSO

Warden, Federal Correctional Institution-Tucson, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Arizona

Tucson is Stephen Pontesso's third assignment as the CEO of an adult correctional institution. Pre superintendent of the Federal Prison Camp at Yankton, S.D., and the warden of the Metropolitan Corre Miami, Fla. He has worked for the Bureau of Prisons for more than 20 years in seven different adult also served in the Bureau's Central Office in Washington, D.C. Pontesso received his bachelor's degr Oklahoma State University and his master's degree in criminology and corrections from Sam Houston St He is a member of the American Society for Public Administration and the North American Association Superintendents, and he has been an ACA member since 1978. Pontesso would be an active representativ in the Delegate Assembly.

JOHN SLANSKY

Warden, Lovelock Correctional Center, Nevada Department of Prisons, Nevada

Warden John Slansky has worked in Nevada corrections since 1969. He began his career as a teacher Nevada's first prison post-secondary education program. He was promoted to associate warden of the N Correctional Center in 1975 and to warden in 1979. In 1987, he was named warden of the Ely State Pri 1988 to February 1993 he was chief of the Nevada Department of Parole and Probation. He returned to Prisons in February 1993 as warden of the Lovelock Correctional Center. He was an officer in the Wes and Superintendents Association for five years and was president in 1985. Slansky has been active in sector prison industry programs and established a program that has operated successfully for more th has a bachelor's degree from the University of Nevada and is pursuing a master's of public administr

Detention--Juvenile (2 positions)

RICHARD KELLEY 

Superintendent of Detention, Wood Youth Center, Allen Superior Court, Indiana

Richard Kelley has been superintendent of detention since 1974, following two years of probation s He holds a bachelor's degree from Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind., and a master's degree from St. Fort Wayne, Ind. Kelley is a licensed probation officer and a certified clinical social worker. An A 1978, he has served on the Juvenile Detention and Juvenile Justice Committees and Training Advisory certified trainer, auditor and consultant, as well as a life member of the National Juvenile Detenti founding president/member of the Indiana Juvenile Detention Association, a member of the Indiana Cor Association, the Indiana Juvenile Justice State Advisory Group, and the Detention Standards Advisory activities include director of missions and leadership development for his church. Kelley is excited to ACA's Delegate Assembly as we move toward a new century of challenges.

DANA A. MENARD

Detention Home Supervisor, Lafayette Juvenile Detention Home, Louisiana

I have been employed with the Lafayette Juvenile Detention Home in Louisiana for the past 17 years as secretary-treasurer of the National Juvenile Detention Association, immediate past president of t Juvenile Detention Association, and as a member of the Governor's State Advisory Group in Louisiana. of these positions for two or more terms. I received my bachelor's degree in criminal justice at the Southwestern Louisiana in December 1989. Because my previous experience has been in the field of juv feel I could be of assistance to the Delegate Assembly in this area.

ALBERT MURRAY 

Assistant Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Youth Development, Tennessee

Since 1970, Albert Murray has worked for the state of Tennessee in the juvenile services area. Mur this time in administration and supervision, including the positions of superintendent, assistant su security and others. He currently serves as assistant commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Yo with responsibility for supervising the management of four training schools, 13 group homes and some programs, all of which are accredited. He is also president of the Tennessee Correctional Associatio of this organization in 1992. Murray served as a Delegate Assembly representative last year and is a auditor.

ANNE M. NELSON

Director, Salt Lake Detention Center, Division of Youth Corrections, Utah Department of Human Serv

Anne Nelson recently returned to the Salt Lake Detention Center as its director. Since 1989, she s of the Division of Youth Corrections, and as a regional director for the division. She was clinical at the Salt Lake Detention Center from 1979. In that capacity she participated in ACA accreditation. a bachelor's degree in sociology, a master's of social work and is currently completing a master's o all from the University of Utah. She is a member of the Executive Board of the National Juvenile Det Association, serving as second vice president, and holds memberships in the Utah Correctional Associ Association of Social Workers, the American Society for Public Administration and the American Corre Association. Nelson hopes to use her experience in the juvenile detention area to address issues aro policy development, and philosophical directions for juvenile detention as a Delegate Assembly membe

Correctional Education Services--Juvenile Academic

ROBERT PASTERNACK, Ph.D.

Director of Clinical Services, Taos/Colfax Community Services Inc., New Mexico

Robert Pasternack recently resigned as the superintendent of the New Mexico Boys' School, where he 1980. As a nationally certified school psychologist, he designed and implemented a variety of innova at New Mexico's only facility for adjudicated juvenile delinquents. Pasternack continues to consult of juvenile and adult correctional facilities throughout the United States. He is a frequent trainer and was a panelist on the National Video Conferences on Literacy co-sponsored by ACA and the Correct Education Association and broadcast by PBS throughout the United States. Pasternack is committed to quality of treatment and intervention programs provided in correctional settings. He has worked exte and would make an excellent addition to the Delegate Assembly.

JOHN C. STEWART, Ed.D.

Superintendent of Education, Alabama Department of Youth, Alabama

John C. Stewart has been the superintendent for the Alabama Youth Services Special School District received his doctorate degree in 1987 from Auburn University in Alabama and his master's and undergr from Virginia Commonwealth University. From 1978 to 1983 he was the special education coordinator fo schools. Before moving to Ozark, he worked with learning disabled students at the Grace Arents Learn Center in Richmond, Va. During 1987 and 1988, he was the director for Correctional Education Region served as the director for the Fort Rucker Regional Special Olympics. Stewart is a trained evaluator Alabama local school districts. From 1989 until 1993 he served as an ACA Delegate Assembly member. T Institute for Citizen Education in the Law sponsored the opportunity for him to become a trainer for

Detention--Adult (2 positions)

FRANCES W. CLARK

Deputy Director, Atlanta Office of Corrections, Georgia

Frances Clark has more than 20 years of experience in various capacities within the Atlanta Office Georgia. She is responsible for all agency support services and inmate programs, and is actively inv of a new 880-bed direct supervision jail. She currently serves as an ACA Delegate Assembly represent member of the Adult Local Detention Committee. Clark is also a member of the American Jail Associati American Correctional Food Service Association. She holds a bachelor's degree from Eckerd College in Fla., and a master's degree in criminal justice from Georgia State University.

MICHAEL T. O'MALLEY

Director of Security and Supervision, Vermont Department of Corrections, Vermont

Since 1975, Michael O'Malley has worked in the corrections field. His first seven years were with Department of Corrections, where he started as a corrections counselor/officer at the Massachusetts Institution-Lancaster, a co-ed minimum security facility. He later worked at Park Drive, Pre-Release Acute Medical Care Correctional Unit, where he was the deputy superintendent.

In August 1982, O'Malley became superintendent at the Rutland Correctional Center of the Vermont D Corrections. In 1992, he became director of security and supervision for the department. O'Malley re degree in political science from Framingham State College of Massachusetts and received his master's from Anna Maria College of Paxton, Mass. He serves on the Adult Detention Standards Committee and ha accreditation auditor since 1983 and an ACA member since 1978.

O'Malley plans to use his extensive corrections experience to actively participate in the developm sanctions and to improve jail standards within ACA.

STEVE STIFFELMAN

Intake Service Center Manager, St. Louis County Jail, St. Louis County Department of Justice Servi

Since 1975, I have worked for the St. Louis County Department of Justice Services in several posit years as a probation/parole supervisor, six years as a work release manager, four years as a jail su past three years, manager of the Prisoner Processing Department. I received my bachelor's degree in justice and my master's degree in management. I am the chairman of the Corrections Advisory Policy C St. Louis metropolitan area. I have been an active member of the Missouri Corrections Association si ACA member for several years. I would like to offer my vast experience in corrections to assist and the implementation of policies and programs for ACA as a member of the Delegate Assembly.

MARVIN J. WILSON

Assistant Chief Deputy and Jail Administrator, Polk County Sheriff's Office, Iowa Marvin Wilson has worked for the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Iowa for more than 21 years. His ex includes 10 years as a lieutenant, three years as assistant chief jailer, two years as second deputy deputy. He has been the chief jailer for the past four years. Wilson attended Grand View College in received an associate art's degree in law enforcement from Des Moines Area Community College. He is American Jail Association and the Correctional Accreditation Managers Association. He is an ACA accr for the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. He led the Polk County Jail Division to accredi and also the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare. Wilson would bring into office extensiv accreditation and local adult detention facility experience, which would provide valuable input as a the adult detention area.

Probation--Line Level (Adult)

BOB ALLISON

Accreditation Manager, Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, Georgia

Bob Allison has been employed by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles since April 1985. During positions as the personnel director and the deputy director of Administrative Services. He currently accreditation manager, coordinating the accreditation effort in the Adult Parole Authorities and the Probation/parole Field Services areas. His prior work experiences include personnel jobs in other Ge by a 20-year career as a rated officer in the U.S. Air Force. He has a bachelor's degree from the Un Georgia and a master's degree in management and supervision from Central Michigan University. Alliso professional memberships in the Parole Association of Georgia, the Correctional Accreditation Manage Association and the American Correctional Association. He plans to use his experience in parole to c development and refinement in the criminal justice system.

LAWRENCE VAULTS

Specialized Probation Officer, Travis County Community Supervision and Corrections Department, Tex

Lawrence Vaults has been employed in the probation field since 1978 and has worked for the Travis Community Supervision and Corrections Department since 1986. During the past four years, he has supe cocaine offenders and has served as a licensed chemical dependency counselor. Vaults has implemented a competency-based didactic group for cocaine addicts. He received his bachelor's degree in criminal Houston State University. Vaults is currently president of the Southern States Correctional Associat served on and chaired various committees of SSCA, is an ACA Delegate Assembly representative and was Assembly representative from 1983 to 1985. He was a speaker at ACA's 1993 Winter Conference and Summ Vaults plans to use his experience in adult probation and leadership skills in SSCA and ACA to activ decision-making process as an ACA Delegate Assembly member.

Correctional Administration--Juvenile

JERRY ADAMEK

Director, Colorado Division of Youth Services, Colorado

Jerry Adamek is a 26-year veteran in the juvenile justice system. After beginning as a probation o Denver, he became director of the Arapahoe Youth Detention Center for a seven-year period in 1972. F stay as assistant and director of Mount View School, a state institution for delinquent youths, Adam of the DYS-South Regional Office in 1985. He assumed the position of division director in September served on the board of directors for a variety of national juvenile justice organizations, including Juvenile Detention Association and the National Association of Juvenile Correctional Agencies. In Co has been active with the Colorado Juvenile Council and the Colorado Correctional Association and is with the Colorado Juvenile Justice Advisory Council. He is a graduate of Regis College in Denver and study at the University of Colorado-Denver. He is married and the father of two college-age children

C. WAYNE POWELL

Cabinet Secretary, Children, Youth and Families Department, New Mexico

Since 1992, C. Wayne Powell has been cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Children, Youth and Fami a cabinet-level agency that provides program services ranging from early childhood development to ju incarceration. Powell has worked in state government for more than 23 years in positions such as dep Human Services Department and district public health director for the Department of Health. Powell r degree in psychology/sociology and a master's degree in psychology/student personnel services from E Mexico University. He has attended the University of New Mexico in Health Promotion and Continuing E University of California at Los Angeles.

Powell has been appointed by New Mexico Gov. Bruce King to serve on the Governor's Task Force on C Bargaining, the Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, the Governor's Task Force on Substance Prevention, the Day Care/Child Development Steering Committee, the Health Care for Homeless Committe Information Systems Task Force.

Institutions of Higher Learning (4 positions)

CARMELINA V. BARRETO

Professor of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

From 1970 to 1974 I worked for the Department of Justice in the area of correctional law and in th legislation. I served as chairperson of the Parole Board of Puerto Rico for four years and as chairp Appellate Board of Disciplinary Proceedings of the Penal System for two years. I received a bachelor from the University of Puerto Rico, where I currently am professor of social sciences. I received a from the Interamerican University. In 1990, I received a master's degree in psychology from the Cari Advanced Studies and am currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology working on my disserta for my work in the development of correctional legislation by the Puerto Rican Bar Association. I ha member since 1990 and would feel honored to serve ACA in any capacity where I can use my experience of ACA programs and policies as a member of the Delegate Assembly.

CAROLYN EGGLESTON, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor/Director, Center of the Study of Correctional Education, California State Universi

Carolyn Eggleston has been a correctional educator since 1975 in the states of Virginia, New York Virginia, she worked in juvenile and adult corrections as a special education teacher, an educationa Chapter I supervisor and a school principal. In New York, she coordinated a correctional/special edu program. She is currently coordinating a graduate correctional education program at California State Eggleston holds a bachelor's degree in sociology, a master's degree in special education and a docto with an emphasis in corrections. She has been an active member in the Correctional Education Associa professional groups. She has national and international affiliations in correctional education, whic office. She hopes her expertise in professional development, training and supervision will make a co Delegate Assembly.

PAUL HAHN

Chairman, Department of Criminal Justice, Xavier University, Ohio

Paul Hahn is professor of criminal justice and chairman of the Xavier University department of cri founded in 1968. With ACA, he served eight previous terms in the Delegate Assembly and has been a me Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Committee on Standards and President's Forum on Issues, and 11th term on the Professional Education Council. In 1976, he was program chairman for the ACA Congre in Denver, Colo. He has been chief probation officer and director of court services in a metropolita consultant-director of an adolescent unit in a state mental hospital, and co-founder of one of the f delinquents in the United States. He is the author of three corrections textbooks. One of them, The the Law, has been used in more than 100 colleges and universities from 1972 to 1990.

RAYMOND A. HELGEMOE

Professor, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire

Raymond Helgemoe, an ACA member since 1977, was the warden at the Navy's only prison. In 1974, he warden of the New Hampshire State Prison, where he also functioned as commissioner. He has a bachelo education and several graduate degrees in criminal justice. Helgemoe is a member of numerous profess including the New England Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Academy of Criminal Justice Science, American Criminology Society, the Northeast Association of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Merrima Diversion Program Board. He was the chairman of ACA's Research Council from 1984 to 1989, chairman o Professional Education Council since 1989, and is a member of the Military Affairs Committee, where Austin McCormick Award in 1991. He has been active on the program committee for more than 10 years, moderator, evaluator and chairman of major sessions.

JOANN MORTON, D.P.A.

Associate Professor, College of Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, South Carolina

Joann Morton's more than 24 years of professional experience is almost equally divided between uni management in corrections. From 1969 to 1976, she was with the University of Georgia in a number of including director of the Southeastern Correctional Management Training Council. From 1976 to 1988, of the Division of Special Projects with the South Carolina Department of Corrections, From 1988 to has been an associate professor at the University of South Carolina. She is very active with state, professional associations, serving ACA as vice president, program chairperson, Public Policy Advisor member of the Professional Education Council and the Women in Corrections Task Force, and president Association on Programs for Female Offenders. She recently received the Josephine Abney Faculty Rese Award and was a recipient of ACA's E.R. Cass Award and South Carolina Correctional Association Disti Service Award in 1985.

FRANK J. PORPORINO

Director General, Research and Development, Correctional Service of Canada, Ontario, Canada

Frank Porporino has worked in federal corrections in Canada for the last 20 years, beginning as a most recently as director general of Research and Development. Porporino's work has focused particul and implementation of effective programming. He is currently involved in providing training and tech correctional programming to a number of U.S. states and internationally in England, New Zealand and Porporino is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He ha ACA committees and is chairperson of the ACA Research Council and president of the American Associat Correctional Psychology. He is on the editorial board of the Prison Journal, coordinates the "Resear of Corrections Today, and has been editor of Forum on Corrections Research, a Canadian quarterly jou accountable, knowledge-based corrections. He has written numerous research articles on assessment an offenders, and is also co-author of the book Coping, Behavior and Adaptation in Prison Inmates (with Springer-Verlay, 1988.

JOHN STEVEN SMITH, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, Ball State University, Indiana

Steve Smith has been involved in correctional and allied human services since 1970 and has attempt academic training with his experience as a practitioner/administrator. Smith is an associate profess Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. He has written more than 25 articles concerning juvenile corre alternatives to incarceration, and effective correctional policies and procedures. His previous expe development and implementation of a wide variety of human service/correctional telephone crisis inte incarceration alternatives for delinquent youths and delinquency prevention programs. Smith is past Indiana Correctional Association, overseeing the acceptance of ICA as an ACA chapter, and currently Juvenile Detention Committee and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory He also is actively involved in the National Juvenile Detention Association.

BRUCE WOLFORD, Ph.D.

Director, Training Resource Center, Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children,

Bruce Wolford is professor of correctional services with the College of Law Enforcement at Eastern Wolford received his doctorate degree from Ohio State University in public administration of justice He currently serves as the director of the Training Resource Center and the Kentucky Educational Col Agency Children. The Training Resource Center serves as a professional development and training cent employed by federal, state and local social/human services and correctional agencies. The Kentucky E Collaborative for State Agency Children is responsible for the management and educational services f at-risk youths in juvenile correctional facilities and community-based programs throughout the Commo Kentucky. As a member of the Delegate Assembly, he hopes to enhance communication between higher edu corrections professionals.

Institutional Line Operating Personnel--Juvenile (2 positions)

TRACEY BRANT 

Youth Division Aide III, Louis Gossett Jr. Residential Center, New York

Tracey Brant is employed as a youth division aide III at the Louis Gossett Jr. Residential Center worked with youths during and since her graduation from Cornell University in 1984. Her experience w statewide programming for youths, in conjunction with her ability to work independently as well as p the organizational experience necessary to contribute to discussion and implementation of policy. Th cooperative extension, and more recently at the Gossett Center, Brant has gained a unique perspectiv today's youths. She looks forward to contributing her time and experience to further the mission of Correctional Association.

MARIAN KAVKA

Correction Counseling Manager I, Inman Group Home, Department of Youth Development, Tennessee

Since 1961, Marian Kavka has worked for the state of Tennessee, first with the Department of Corre and then with the Department of Youth Development when it was created. She began her service as a te and recreational director at the Tennessee Vocational School for Girls. In addition to teaching, she principal of the academic school. She transferred to the directorship of the Inman Group Home in 197 and has continued in that position.

Kavka received her bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Augustana C Island, Ill., and her master's degree in psychology/counseling from Middle Tennessee State Universit five years in Illinois prior to moving to Tennessee.

MICHAEL PORTER

Management Information Systems, Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Home, Virginia

In 1976 and 1977, Michael Porter worked as a group home houseparent in Bowling Green, Ohio, and se of the Ohio Association of Group Homes for a year. From 1977 to 1989, Porter worked at the Northern Juvenile Detention Home (NVJDH), primarily as a childcare supervisor, but also filling in as a shift to the Juvenile Detention Commission for Northern Virginia. After leaving to set up a small business returned to NVJDH. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Iowa. Porter and procedure manual that combines present and drafted state standards with ACA's Standards for Secu For more than a year, he has advanced the cause of adequate capacity in a new facility now under way He is a Cub Scout and Boy Scout Leader and a Neighborhood Watch Coordinator.

BARBARA STRECKER

Clinical Social Worker III, Youth Center at Topeka, Kansas

Barbara Strecker has served 15 years in the social work/corrections field. She has held a variety as direct care worker, foster care worker, juvenile probation officer, parole officer and prison the her current position as a clinical social worker in a juvenile institution since 1989. In addition, Kansas Correctional Association, where she has served as chairperson for the Membership and Auditing 1991. During her tenure in this position, membership has increased, ranking Kansas among the top 10 United States. Strecker received a bachelor's degree in social work and corrections from Washburn Un received a master's degree in social work from the University of Kansas.

At-Large--Ethnic Minority (3 positions)

CONNIE BALDWIN

Manager, Wayne County Felony Probation Services, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan

A probation officer since 1967, Connie Baldwin has served 15 years in various managerial positions position as manager for Wayne County Felony Probation Services. Baldwin holds a master's degree in c from the University of Detroit. She studied abroad in a program co-sponsored by the University of Il Office of International Criminal Justice and the East China Institute of Politics and Law in Shangha the Central States Correctional Association and vice president of the Michigan Correctional Associat Dedicated Service Award, served 11 years as trustee on the Executive Board and chaired various commi has been a delegate to several ACA Congresses. She is an ACA auditor and a member of the National As Parliamentarians. Baldwin will proactively seek solutions to corrections issues, enhance communicati unify ACA and promote effective public policy.

JESSE W. DOYLE

Executive Director/Superintendent, Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Illinois

Jesse Doyle is superintendent of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Illinois. for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice as the assistant commissioner for Secure Detent director of the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center. He has 15 years of experience with the New York Youth. Doyle has a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master of divinity degree in theology and a m humanist education. He also has studied extensively in the area of organization development and is a diversity. Doyle is a member of the Executive Board of the National Juvenile Justice Trainers Associ an active member of the National Juvenile Detention Association and the Illinois Probation and Court Association. As a Delegate Assembly member, Doyle would like to use his experience in the juvenile j ACA innovative insight and perspective to present and future initiatives.

JOYCE JACKSON

Public Relations Officer, Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Oklahoma

Joyce Jackson, a former broadcast journalist, started with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections officer in 1982. She was later promoted to public relations officer in 1986.

Jackson has a bachelor's degree in broadcasting/public relations from Central State University in serves on the Board of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ) and is former the Professional Association of Corrections Communicators. She is a member of the National Associati Journalists and the Oklahoma Governor's Commission on the Status of Women.

Jackson's many awards and accomplishments include the Associated Press Award and Outstanding Black given by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She has served as the ACA Delegate for NABCJ and as a member of Information Committee and the Women in Corrections Committee. She was appointed to the ACA Program P Council for the 1992 and 1993 Congresses of Correction.

LLOYD B. McMILLAN

Special Assistant to the Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, District of Columbia

Since 1974, I have worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in several capacities, including case training center instructor, camp administrator, assistant superintendent and site selection speciali the Bureau, I worked for the state of Ohio in a community treatment center with young adults and as for the juvenile court system in Summit County, Ohio. In 1972, I received a bachelor's degree in soc State University in Kent, Ohio, where I graduated with academic distinction. I am currently working Exhibitor Support Group and have assisted the ACA Special Needs Offender Task Force. Additionally, I an ACA panel evaluator and as a member of National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. If sel Delegate Assembly, I plan to use all of my academic, professional and life experiences to represent in the development of ACA programs and policies, particularly as they relate to cultural and gender

THEODORE "TED" SAKAI

Corrections Program Services Administrator, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, Hawaii

Since 1970, Ted Sakai has held positions as probation officer, jail counselor, executive director agency, chief corrections planner, administrator of correctional operation and administrator of corr Sakai is currently responsible for all inmate programming in Hawaii correctional facilities and give that are sensitive to the needs of Hawaii's multi-ethnic population.

He is past vice president of the Hawaii Correctional Association and has served on numerous local He is currently a member of the Prison Concern Committee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and is a ACA Committee on Substance Abuse. Sakai's experience and knowledge of all aspects of adult correctio awareness of the needs of ethnic minorities will enable him to make significant contributions to the

ROBERT J. WATSON 

Commissioner of Correction, Department of Correction, Delaware

Robert Watson has been the commissioner of correction with the State of Delaware since June 1987. up corrections in Oregon from 1976 through 1985. Watson started his corrections career as a correcti served as Host Committee chairman for the ACA Congress of Correction in Portland, Ore., in 1978. Oth include chairman of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, 1983-1985; chairman of the ACA Planning Committee, 1982; president of the Association of State Correctional Administrators, 1983; m ACA's President Forum, 1991-1992; member of the Committee on Special Offenders; and recipient of the Award in 1989.

Parole or Post-Release Supervision--Line Level (Juvenile)

LAWRENCE "LARRY" T. DiSTEFANO

Director, Central New York Community-based Operations, New York

Lawrence T. DiStefano has worked for the New York State Division for Youth for 27 years in a varie including director for Community Care (Parole) for a 21-county section of New York State for 12 year all levels of facility programs and currently is the director for the Central New York Community-bas Syracuse and Binghamton, N.Y. DiStefano has a bachelor's and two master's degrees in counseling and He has been very active in New York's ACA-affiliated organization and has been active on a national on ACA's Juvenile Justice Committee. He also is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Natio of Juvenile Correctional Agencies and is a member of many local civic and community organizations. DiStefano has always been a high-energy and task-oriented, get-the-job-done type of person.

CAROL POWELL

Programs Supervisor, Office of Juvenile Justice, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Oklahoma

As a career employee of the Department of Human Services, Carol Powell began work in the summer of Pittsburgh County office as a social worker within Oklahoma's Division of Social Services. Since tha Powell has been a counselor for the Child Welfare Services, administrator of the North Girls Group H coordinator for the Juvenile Services Unit to assist in its accreditation efforts. In her current po for accreditation activities throughout the state to include field services, group homes and institu accomplishments include program developments encompassing tracking programs, New Short-term Accelera Residential Tracking, intermediate sanctions/intensive crisis intervention program, foster care, day services and therapeutic foster care. The intermediate sanctions/intensive crisis intervention progr Juvenile Justice Award of Merit from Eastern Kentucky University in 1990. Powell holds a bachelor's studies, a master's in social work from the University of Oklahoma, and has earned 10 hours toward a

Probation (Juvenile)

SHEILA HILL-CHRISTIAN

Certification/Accreditation Manager, Virginia Department of Youth and Family Services, Virginia

Since 1982, Sheila Hill-Christian has worked in juvenile services for the Commonwealth of Virginia including juvenile careworker and unit supervisor at a training school for girls for four-and-a-half include two years as a certification inspector for residential and non-residential programs, and cur certification/accreditation manager responsible for coordinating the inspection of approximately 200 programs. Hill-Christian received bachelor's degrees in English and history from Virginia Commonweal University. A member of the Correctional Accreditation Managers Association, she began serving as an February 1993. She also recently completed NIC Correctional Leadership Development Training in Longm Hill-Christian plans to use her experience in juvenile services and her expertise in regulation deve monitoring to enhance the development of ACA programs and policies as a Delegate Assembly member.

FRED JORDAN

Chief Probation Officer, Department of Juvenile Probation, City and County of San Francisco, Calif

Since 1990, Fred Jordan has worked for the city and county of San Francisco's Juvenile Probation D His total work experience covers 32 years in adult and juvenile corrections in four different states worked as a training school superintendent and a regional administrator of youth and community servi Jordan received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Virginia State University. He has been an ACA approximately 15 years and was active in chapters and affiliates in Virginia, Washington state and M to use his extensive experience in juvenile corrections to advocate for the improvement of condition incarcerated youths and establish innovative programs.

Correctional Administration--Adult

H. CHRISTIAN DeBRUYN

Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Indiana

On Aug. 7, 1992, H. Christian DeBruyn was appointed commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corr Eban Bayh. DeBruyn began his career in corrections in 1975 as a correctional officer in New York. Ra ranks, in 1985, he accepted the position of superintendent of jails in Rochester. In December 1989, he came to Indiana as its first deputy commissioner for juvenile services. In this alternative community-based programs that reduced the number of juveniles held in county jails from years. The number of felons diverted from the department increased by 57 percent over the previous y in funding. His responsibilities expanded to include community corrections, field services, parole s liaison for the department.

DeBruyn holds a master's of human services degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and teac law, history and management locally and abroad.

JOSEPH D. LEHMAN

Secretary of Corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Pennsylvania

Since 1990, I have been secretary of corrections for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. P deputy secretary for the Washington State Department of Corrections and director of their Division o

I received a bachelor's degree from Saint Martin's College in Lacey, Wash., and a master's degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. I am currently legislative chairman for the Associ Correctional Administrators, and chairman of the National Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy ste I am overseeing Pennsylvania's largest prison construction program and the disbursement of $200 mill for county prison construction projects. Major policy initiatives include sentencing reform, the rev guidelines to improve community-based sanctions, advocacy for repeal of mandatory sentences and join My involvement in correctional issues led to my being honored with City and State's 1993 "Excellence Award" for corrections.

Correctional Education Services--Juvenile Vocational

SARAH LLOYD

Accreditation Manager/Industrial Coordinator, Youth Center at Larned, Kansas

I have been employed by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services for 34 years. assignments have been given to me over the years; however, the past nine years with the Youth Center Kan., Department of Youth Services have been among the most enjoyable. I have an associate of arts d County Community College and have served as accreditation manager for my agency since the fall of 19 in becoming a member of the Delegate Assembly in the area of Correctional Education Services (Juveni to use my juvenile vocations knowledge and experience to help meet the ever-changing needs for quali

FRED MILLS

Administrator, Free Venture Program, California Youth Authority, California

Fred Mills is the administrator of the Free Venture Program of the California Youth Authority. Mil supervisory experiences in correctional institutions and parole services. He was responsible for imp the initial 832 P.C. mandate training for all Peace Officers in the California Youth Authority. Mill by the governor of California as the chief deputy director of the state's Office of Criminal Justice secretary for the state's Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, which oversees all California correct received his bachelor's degree from California State University at Los Angeles and his master's degr from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an officer of the California Correctional Industr add has been an active member since 1986. Mills will use his expertise to advocate for policies and youthful offenders to successfully compete in the job market and to function as productive citizens

Correctional Education Services--Adult Vocational

JERRY CAMPBELL

Industry Administrator, Arkansas Department of Correction, Arkansas

Jerry Campbell is the administrator of Arkansas Correctional Industries. After teaching and coachi Campbell started his career in corrections. In 1973, he was promoted to assistant warden and in 1977 then was assigned as administrator of the Industry Division in 1985.

Campbell received his bachelor's degree from the University of Central Arkansas. He is second vice Correctional Industries Association. In 1991, Campbell received the Arkansas Department of Correctio Award for outstanding service for his efforts in Arkansas Correctional Industries. He also is active organization.

In 1981, Campbell helped organize and became a board member of the Arkansas Dollars for Scholars. began the first college program offered to inmates in the Arkansas Department of Correction.

HOWARD L. SKOLNIK

Assistant Director, Nevada Department of Prisons, Nevada

I am honored to be nominated for the Delegate Assembly. I have been assistant director in the Neva Prisons since 1987, which includes responsibility for vocational education. I was previously superin Correctional Industries. I served on the Board of Directors of the City Day School, the Kiwanis Club the Correctional Industries Association, as well as the ACA Planning Committee, the ACA Inmate Progr the CEA Region VII Planning Committee and the NIC Planning Committee. I am past president of the Cor Industries Association and the Western Correctional Industries Association and served as the Correct Associations' representative to the Delegate Assembly for three years. I hold a bachelor's degree fr University and a master's of social work degree from the University of Illinois. I would like to use in corrections to help increase ACA's credibility and responsiveness to practitioners throughout the

Parole or Post-Release Supervision--Line-Level (Adult)

PATRICK W. FOLEY

Parole Specialist, Division of Probation and Parole, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,

Patrick Foley became involved in criminal justice as a deputy sheriff in 1976 and was appointed as police in 1979. He became a parole officer in 1988 and has been promoted to the position of parole s of North Dakota. He serves on a variety of committees within the Department of Corrections and the N Officers Association. He is the department representative for the Mid-States Organized Crime Informa member of the Association of Paroling Authorities. Foley earned his bachelor's degree in criminal ju counseling and is completing his dissertation to receive his doctorate in counseling. Both program a have kept him busy in the parole office over the past years, and he looks forward to similar challen of the ACA Delegate Assembly.

NANCY L. VALLARIO

Circuit Administrator, Probation and Parole Services, Florida Department of Corrections, Florida

Since 1977, I have worked for the Department of Corrections in several positions, including four y parole officer, nine years at supervisory levels, and four years as circuit administrator. I receive degree in human resources management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and have been an at Nova University for 12 years. I am immediate past president of the Florida Council on Crime and D have served ACA as host representative and in program assistance as monitor and affiliate representa

I would like to use my experience in adult field services to represent and actively participate in programs and policies as a Delegate Assembly member.

Probation Line-Level--Juvenile

CHARLES THOMAS "TOM" HAYNES

Juvenile Probation/Aftercare Officer III, Regional Trainer and Juvenile Court Liaison Officer, Memphis and Shelby County Juvenile Court, Tennessee Department of Youth Development, Tennessee

Since 1969, Tom Haynes has been counseling juveniles as a line staff probation officer. He holds a degree in sociology from Lambuth College in Jackson, Tenn., and is also a graduate of the Sewanee Mi Haynes has been an ACA member since 1977 and is currently an Executive Gold Card Member. He is a lif of the Tennessee Correctional Association and has been on TCA's Board of Directors since 1991. Recen to the board and endorsed as their candidate to ACA. He is a Tennessee-licensed professional counsel extensive field experience and a member of the Southern States Correctional Association. He is a tra court liaison officer with the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County.

Haynes will use his experience and ideas to recruit and actively participate in the ACA.

DWIGHT E. SMITH

Juvenile Counselor Supervisor I, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, Maryland

Dwight Smith has worked in all aspects of field services since 1971, including supervising a speci unit for more than 10 years. He is currently a case manager supervisor for a continuing service unit in Prince George's (Md.) County. He has served on the County Children's Council, the state's Ad Committee, a departmental Waiver Task Force, and is a liaison for the Metropolitan Washington Counci Courts. Smith is president of the Maryland Criminal Justice Association and has been active in that since 1980. He has served on the ACA Juvenile Justice Committee and currently serves on the ACA Juve Committee. Smith holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Maryland and is also the university's Criminal Justice and Criminology Alumni Chapter. If elected, this will be Smith's s Delegate Assembly.

Aftercare or Post-Release Supervision--Juvenile

JAN AUTERY

Administrator, Regional and Community Services Division, Alabama Department of Youth Services, Ala

I began a juvenile justice career in 1971 and have since gained experience in most areas of juveni supervise the Division of Community Services, which includes operation of seven group homes, providi assistance to all juvenile courts, setting standards, monitoring and licensing juvenile detention, c facilities, foster families, wilderness programs, day-treatment programs and juvenile probation offi and implemented an intensive aftercare program that has received national recognition. Our state rec ACA standards, which we use for licensing some programs, and has done extensive planning and trainin standards compliance.

I have a bachelor of science degree in justice and public safety from Auburn University in Alabama justice and psychology. I attended Alabama's Certified Public Manager's Program and am currently in on a law degree. I am an ACA auditor and a member of several professional organizations, including A very much like to use my training and experience in juvenile justice to represent you in the area of participate in developing ACA programs and policies as a Delegate Assembly member.

BARBARA LaGRAVE

Accreditation Manager, New York State Division for Youth, New York

Barbara LaGrave has 20 years of experience monitoring juvenile programs, including private non-pro schools, community residential and community service programs.

LaGrave is a member of the Correctional Accreditation Managers Association, the New York State Juv Association and ACA. During the past year she has been working on a manual for new accreditation man accomplish accreditation.

LaGrave has a bachelor of science degree in home economics and a master's of social work degree in