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To ensure the orderly transition of the administration of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center from federal court oversight to the Office of the Chief Judge, Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans today announced that he has appointed the Circuit Court of Cook County Committee on the Transition of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC).
Chief Judge Evans has asked the committee members to assist the JTDC’s new superintendent, Leonard Dixon, and the federal court’s transitional administrator, Earl Dunlap, in the transfer of authority.
The members of the committee, which Chief Judge Evans said is still in formation, are as follows:
Carl C. Bell, M.D.
Staff Psychiatrist, Outpatient Family Practice Clinic and Consultation and Liaison Psychiatrist, Medical/Psychiatric Unit, Jackson Park Hosp.
Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Illinois (Chicago) (ret.)
Honorable Andrew Berman (Ret.)
Formerly assigned to the Juvenile Justice Division, Circuit Court of Cook County
Honorable Richard R. Boykin, J.D.
Commissioner, Cook County Board of Commissioners, 1st District
Reverend Byron T. Brazier
Pastor, Apostolic Church of God
Commissioner, Public Building Commission
Board Member, DuSable Museum
Board Member, Metropolitan Planning Council
Board Member, Civic Advocacy and Action Committee
Beverly J. Butler, Ed.D.
Special Assistant for JTDC Transition, Office of the Chief Judge
Chicago Public Schools, Teacher and Administrator (ret.)
Frances G. Carroll, Ed.D.
Chicago Public Schools, Teacher and Administrator (ret.)
Member, Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois (ret.)
Reverend Dr. Leon Finney, Jr.
Founder, The Woodlawn Organization
Founder, The Woodlawn Community Development Corporation
Founder and Pastor, Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church
Former Vice Chairman, Chicago Public Housing Authority
Former Chairman, Monitoring Commission for School Desegregation for Chicago Public Schools
Eugene Griffin, J.D., Ph.D.
Director of Research, Child Trauma Academy
Lead Developer, Mental Health Training Curriculum for Juvenile Justice, MacArthur Foundation/Models for Change and the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Honorable Sophia H. Hall
Administrative Presiding Judge
Resource Section
Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Department
Circuit Court of Cook County
Edward Harrison, M.B.A.
President and CEO, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (ret.)
Marisel A. Hernandez, M.A., J.D.
Partner, Jacobs Burns Orlove & Hernandez
Commissioner, Chicago Bd. of Elections
Trial Attorney, U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (ret.)
Trial Attorney, National Labor Relations Board(ret.)
Samuel V. Jones, J.D.
Professor, The John Marshall Law School
Police Officer and Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps (ret.)
U.S. Marines (ret.)
Corporate Counsel for Labor and Employment, Blockbuster, Inc. (ret.)
Senior Counsel, AT&T Corp. (ret.)
James D. Montgomery, Sr., J.D.
Managing Partner, James D. Montgomery & Associates, Ltd.
Assistant United States Attorney, Northern Dist. of Ill. (ret.)
Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago (ret.)
Member, Univ. of Ill. Bd. of Trustees
Fellow, Int'l Acad. of Trial Lawyers
Dr. Barbara Radner, Ph.D
Executive Director
Polk Bros. Foundation Center for Urban Education, DePaul University Chicago
Michael J. Rohan, M.A., M.S.
Director, Juvenile Probation and Court Services Department, Cir. Ct. of Cook Co. (ret.)
Interim Director, Juvenile Court Clinic for Forensic Clinical Services, Cir. Ct. of Cook Co. (ret.)
Instructor/lecturer, Loyola Univ., Chicago Police Acad., Univ. of Ill. (Chicago), and the Annie E. Casey Fdn.
Sr. Catherine M. Ryan, O.S.F., M.B.A., J.D.
Executive Dir., Maryville Academy, City of Youth
Chief, Juvenile Justice Bureau, Cook County State's Attorney (ret.)
Dr. Robert T. Starks
Professor Emeritus
Founder, Harold Washington Institute for Research and Policy Studies
Northeastern Illinois University’s Jacob Carruthers Center for
Inner City Studies, Politics and Economic Development
Chairman, Black United Fund of Illinois
Honorable Larry Suffredin, J.D.
Commissioner, Cook County Board of Commissioners, 13th District
Chair, Legislation and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee and Rules and Administration Committee, Cook Co. Bd. of Commissioners
Honorable Michael P. Toomin, J.D.
Presiding Judge, Juvenile Justice Division, Circuit Court of Cook County
Previous assignments: Judge, Illinois Appellate Court, First District; felony trial judge and Supervising Judge, Criminal Division, Circuit Court of Cook County
Paula Wolff, M.A., PhD.
Director, Illinois Justice Project
Senior Executive, Metropolis Strategies
Chair, Board of Trustees, City Colleges of Chicago
Member, Board of Trustees, University of Chicago Medical Center
Member, Board of Trustees, University of Chicago
Former President, Governors State University
Paula Wolff and James D. Montgomery, Sr. will serve as the transition committee co-chairs.
The following, while not members of the transition committee, have offered to lend their expertise to transition efforts: the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Jim Bray, Jim Bray Policy and Communications; and Bennett Johnson, III, chief executive officer, the UCI Group, Inc. and former budget director for the City of Chicago’s Office of Budget and Management.
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