CONGRATULATIONS TO FELLOW MEMBER DAMON K. GRIFFIN

Damon was just promoted to the Gang and Narcotics unit. This is the top unit at the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office in Memphis, TN.  Great job Damon!

GOVERNOR PATRICK ANNOUNCES JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS OF THREE DISTINGUISHED ATTORNEYS TO THE DISTRICT COURT

NBPA member and Massachusetts State Rep. Antoinette Leoney is nominated. Click here to read the press release online

NDAA: PROSECUTING DRUG CASES
September 12 - 16
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CONGRAULATIONS

U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch appointed NBPA Member Margo K. Brodie deputy chief in the criminal division. Ms. Brodie joined the Eastern District prosecutor's office in 1999. She had served as counsel to the criminal division since October.

2010 Tentative NAC Schedule available for viewing - click here

NDAA Bootcamp still has spots available for the August 9-13, 2010 course. For more information click here.

Channing Phillips- Career Federal Prosecutor picked to serve as Deputy Associate Attorney General for Diversity Management and as the Executive Director for the Attorney General’s Diversity Management Advisory Council.

Channing Phillips, has agreed to serve as the Deputy Associate Attorney General for Diversity Management and as the Executive Director for the Attorney General’s Diversity Management Advisory Council.  In this role, he will be responsible for implementing the Attorney General’s new Diversity Management Plan within the Department of Justice.

Channing Phillips has served with distinction in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for over 16 years.  He first came to the Office as a Special AUSA on detail from the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Criminal Division and became a line Assistant in 1994.  During the last 16 years he has done a phenomenal job in every position he has been asked to serve – as a line Assistant, as a Chief of Staff and Special Counsel to various United States Attorneys, as the Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney, and as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

She's Notre Dame's first black valedictorian

Katie Washington (UND photo)

Katie Washington, a biological sciences major from Gary , Ind. , has been named valedictorian of the 2010 University of Notre Dame graduating class and will present the valedictory address during Commencement exercises May 16 (Sunday) in Notre Dame stadium.

Washington, who earned a 4.0 grade point average, has a minor in Catholic Social Teaching. She has conducted research on lung cancer at the Cold Spring Harbor labs and performed genetic studies in the University’s Eck Institute for Global Health on the mosquito that carries dengue and yellow fever. She is the co-author of a research paper with David Severson, professor of biological sciences.

Washington directs the Voices of Faith Gospel Choir at Notre Dame, is a mentor/tutor for the Sister-to-Sister program at South Bend’s Washington High School and serves as the student coordinator of the Center for Social Concerns’ “Lives in the Balance: Youth Violence and Society Seminar.”

Upon graduation, Washington plans to pursue a joint M.D./Ph.D program at Johns Hopkins University
 

REGIONAL DIRECTOR NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT TO KEY ADMINISTRATION POST

NBPA Regional Director J. Patricia “Trish” Wilson Smoot has been nominated by President Obama for the post of Commissioner, United States Parole Commission, Department of Justice. Click to read more.

NBPA Congratulates Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow, who has been tapped for NJ Attorney General

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First Black D.A. elected in Philadelphia. Read more about Seth Williams.

 Patricia Ector Scholarship Fund Now Accepting Donations! 

 Patricia Ector Scholarship Fund checks should be made out to "UC Regents", and they should note on the memo line "Patricia E. Ector '79 Scholarship Fund".

Checks can be mailed to the following address:

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Boalt Hall Alumni Center
2850 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 500
Berkeley, CA 94705-7220

Donations can also be made online .

In the "Special Instructions or Designations" box at the bottom of the page, donors should write, "Patricia E. Ector '79 Scholarship Fund".

Ex AUSA wanted on the Federal Bench

Brian Jackson a prior AUSA and NBPA member is recommended to take a seat on the federal bench. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/45457782.html

Grace Ononiwu is the new CPS London Legal Director. Grace has been the CCP for Northamptonshire since 2005. She was a District Crown Prosecutor in CPS London from 2003.

President at Work

President Lineberger signs the Pat Ector Scholarship agreement with UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law (March 2009)

 NBPA delegation visits England for ceremony. See the photos on the Hall of Fame page.

Vera Institute of Justice
New Report Focuses on Prosecution and Race

Prosecutors in the United States exercise significant discretion with minimal external oversight. This flexibility allows them to seek outcomes that are just for individual cases, but some believe it may also lead to unfair disparate treatment—particularly toward people of color, who are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Vera’s Prosecution and Racial Justice Program (PRJ) is working with district attorneys in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), North Carolina; and San Diego County, California, to develop an internal assessment and management procedure that will help them identify and address evidence of racial bias within their offices. PRJ’s new publication, Using Data to Advance Fairness in Criminal Prosecution , describes this process and identifies lessons learned as the partner jurisdictions put the procedure in action. 
 

 The Vera Institute of Justice is an independent, nonprofit organization that combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.