The 2020 authors and editors
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HONORABLE DON R. ASH
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Judge Don R. Ash was appointed a senior judge for the state of Tennessee in 2012. Previously he served as a circuit court judge from 1994-2012 for the 16th Judicial District Court while also serving as presiding judge of the 16th Judicial District Drug and DUI Court. In 1998, he was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to the Tennessee Court of Judiciary and served as presiding judge through 2011. He has authored over 40 appellate opinions. Judge Ash received his bachelor's degree from Middle Tennessee State University, Juris Doctor from the University of Memphis, and Master of Judicial Studies degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. He taught civil procedure at the Nashville School of Law for ten years. Judge Ash has received numerous awards and was designated distinguished alumni of Middle Tennessee State University as well as being inducted into the Tennessee Boys and Girls Club Hall of Fame. He is a past president of the Tennessee Judicial Conference. He is the author of "A Bridge over Troubled Water: Changing the Custody Law in Tennessee" University of Memphis Law Review, and "Children of Divorce: A Practical Guide for Parents, Therapists, Attorneys, and Judges." Judge Ash is an alumnus of The National Judicial College, has served as faculty since 2001 and is a past chair of the Faculty Council.
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HONORABLE JANET R. BURNSIDE
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Judge Janet R. Burnside has served on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, since January 1991. She previously served as an acting judge with the Cleveland Heights Municipal Court. Prior to taking the bench, she practiced law for 13 years in real estate, personal injury, criminal trials, and appeals. Judge Burnside earned her Bachelor of Science degree in math and her Masters of Science degree in computer science from Ohio State University. She received her Juris Doctor from the Ohio State University College of Law. Judge Burnside has lectured nationally and statewide on the subjects of evidence, sex offenses and offender law, administrative appeals, trial practice, summary judgment motions, Ohio constitutional law, and Ohio death penalty practice. She is a Science and Technology Fellow, ASTAR program (2006), and is co-author of the “Ohio Rules of Evidence Handbook” (Lexis Law Publishing 1999). Judge Burnside is an alumna of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2004.
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HONORABLE DANIEL J. CROTHERS
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Justice Daniel J. Crothers has served on the North Dakota Supreme Court, Bismarck, North Dakota, since June 2005. Prior to taking the bench, he was a commercial litigator and legal and judicial educator. Justice Crothers received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Dakota. He has written and lectured on the interaction of technology and legal and judicial ethics, discovery and admissibility of electronically stored information, judicial disqualification, and ethics for new judges and their families. He has taught lawyers and judges throughout the United States as well as from Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Thailand. He is a past president of the State Bar Association of North Dakota and past chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection, past chair of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Policy Implementation Committee, past member of the ABA President’s Taskforce on Cybersecurity, and past member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He currently serves on the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Regulation. Justice Crothers is an alumnus of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2006.
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HONORABLE KRISTI L. HARRINGTON
Judge Kristi L. Harrington is a retired South Carolina Circuit Judge, who served two terms on the bench. Judge Harrington graduated from University of Tulsa College of Law in 1996. Judge Harrington was recently elected as chair-elect of the National Judicial College’s (NJC) Faculty Council. She teaches other courses offered annually at the NJC, such as Selected Issues in Evidence and Human Trafficking. Judge Harrington is a Fulbright Scholar Specialist and has taught judges in India, Pakistan, and Bermuda. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Charleston School of Law, teaching novel issues in the law, such as Marijuana Law and Victimology. After completing the Civil Mediation course at NJC, she opened her own mediation and arbitration practice, Kristi Harrington Dispute Resolution. She joined the faculty of the National Judicial College in 2012.
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HONORABLE MARY KATHERINE HUFFMAN
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Judge Huffman has served on the bench of the Common Pleas Court in Montgomery County, Ohio, since 2002. Prior to becoming a judge, she had a civil and criminal law trial practice for eleven years with the firm Huffman, Landis & Weaks. She received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Wright State University, her Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from University of Dayton School of Law, and a Master of Judicial Studies degree from University of Reno, Nevada. Judge Huffman has been an adjunct faculty member at University of Dayton School of Law since 2003 and for many years taught business and real estate law courses at Sinclair Community College. Judge Huffman has written a number of scholarly articles for publication, including “Tort Law: Social Host Liability for the Negligent Acts of Intoxicated Minors,” “Immunity and Mental Health Professionals,” and “The Politics of Fear: The Dubious Logic Underlying Sex Offender Registration Statutes”. Judge Huffman is an NJC alumna and joined the NJC faculty in 2016.
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HONORABLE CARLTON D. JONES
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Judge Carlton Jones was elected to the 8th Judicial District (South) Court of the State of Arkansas on May 20, 2014. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Jones practiced law for 27 years specializing in criminal law, criminal procedure and constitutional law. He served as staff attorney for the East Arkansas Legal Service and deputy prosecuting attorney and prosecuting attorney for the 8th Judicial District (South) for the State of Arkansas. Judge Jones received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas and his J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law and was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He has taught continuing legal education courses for the past 15 years with Bowen School of Law (UALR), Pulaski County Bar Association and Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys Association (APAA) in the areas of criminal law, ethics and, since taking the bench, domestic relations. Judge Jones received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2014 from AHS and the Award for Service to Law and Society in 2010 from Harold Flowers Law Society. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Judicial Council since 2016 and is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association. Judge Jones is an alumnus of the National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2018.
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KATHLEEN McGARRY, ESQ.
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Kate McGarry has been involved in capital litigation for thirty years. She began her career in the Office of the Ohio Public Defender where she represented people sentenced to death in the trial, appellate and Supreme Court of Ohio as well as in the Federal Courts. Because of her practice in front of the Ohio Supreme Court, she was offered the position of Master Commission for Death Penalty Cases at the Court, which she accepted. She reviewed death penalty cases for the Court and prepared Bench Memorandums and draft opinions for the Justices relating to the issues raised by the death row inmate. Her work on the Court lead her to be involved in the Ohio Jury Instruction Committee charged with drafting Jury Instructions for Capital Cases. She was also the only non-Judge faculty member that created and taught the course "Capital Cases for Judges," for the Ohio Judicial College for almost 20 years. This course is now mandatory for judges in Ohio. In 2000, Kate moved to New Mexico and opened her private practice with about fifty percent of her practice still comprised of capital cases, representing clients in Ohio, Tennessee and New Mexico. In 2015, she was awarded the Donald C. Schumacher Life Saver Award by the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In 2019 Kate succeeded in obtaining a life sentence for the last remaining person on New Mexico's death row. Kate no longer practices in Ohio but serves as the Senior Staff Attorney for the First Judicial District Court in New Mexico, where she assists nine judges with their criminal, civil, and family court dockets.
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HONORABLE V. LEE SINCLAIR, JR. (CONSULTANT TO THE PROJECT AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR)
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Judge Lee Sinclair is nationally known as a judicial educator and court security consultant. He is past Chair of the Faculty Council at the National Judicial College. Judge Sinclair has presented courses for judges, lawyers and court personnel for over 30 years, Judge Sinclair serves as a faculty member for several institutions, including the National Judicial College, Ohio Judicial College, University of Mount Union, National Center for State Courts, and the United States Army. Similarly, Judge Sinclair consulted for national media outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Playboy Magazine and has provided expert witness testimony in court security matters. Judge Sinclair has published extensively on legal and judicial topics. He is the lead author of the two-volume treatise, Handling Capital Cases; contributing author to the leading text on capital punishment, Presiding Over a Capital Case; and most recently, a text published by the National Judicial College titled Judge’s Resource Guide: Managing Jury Trials. Judge Sinclair sits on the Editorial Board of the four-volume treatise, Ohio Jury Instructions. Judge Sinclair is retired from the Stark County Court of Common Pleas in Canton, Ohio. During his tenure, he served as both the Administrative Judge and the Presiding Judge. Judge Sinclair still presides on a regular basis by appointment of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
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PROFESSOR PENNY J. WHITE
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Professor Penny J. White serves as director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law where she also teaches evidence, advanced evidence, trial practice, pretrial litigation, negotiations, and interviewing and counseling. She lectures around the country at legal and judicial education programs on each of these areas, as well as on capital punishment, criminal law and procedure, and ethics and professionalism issues. Prior to her teaching career, Professor White served as judge at every level of the court system in Tennessee. She was the first female circuit judge in the First Judicial District and the second woman to serve on both the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court. While at University of Tennessee, Professor White received the University’s Jefferson Prize for excellence in research and creative activity, the Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, and, most recently, the SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the entire university. At the law school, she has twice received the Warner Outstanding Teacher Award and the service awards for outstanding service to the bench, bar, and the institution. Professor White has published numerous articles on evidence, criminal procedure, and ethics, including “Relinquished Responsibilities,” an article on judicial ethics which was published in the Harvard Law Review. Her scholarship has earned her the law school’s Yarbrough Legal Writing Award and the Carden Award for Excellence in Scholarship. White has been honored by the legal profession in her home state, receiving the Governor’s Award from the Knoxville Bar Association, the organization’s highest award, and the Ritchie Award by the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for her book on the defense of capital cases. Professor White is an alumna of The National Judicial College, former chair of the NJC’s Faculty Council, the 2014 recipient of the College’s Advancement of Justice Award, and the 2009 recipient of the College’s V. Robert Payant Award for teaching excellence. Professor White has served as faculty for The National Judicial College since 1993.
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KATHERYN YETTER, ESQ.
Katheryn Yetter has been serving The National Judicial College since 2012. Before joining the NJC, she was senior attorney for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In this capacity, she managed the day-to-day operations of over $1M in federally grant-funded projects designed to improve the justice system’s response to child protection, custody, and visitation-related matters. Ms. Yetter was also a policy analyst for the Oregon Judicial Department in the areas of juvenile, criminal, and family law, providing staff support to the State Family Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Domestic Violence and the Juvenile Court Improvement Project Advisory Committee. Ms. Yetter has authored several bench tools and other publications that improve court processes and functions including “A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases,” the first national comprehensive tool for judicial decision making in custody and visitation cases when domestic violence is a factor. Some of her other publications include “Moving Beyond ‘Failure to Protect in West Virginia,” “Judicial Decision Making in Custody and Visitation Cases,” “Responding to Allegations of Parental Alienation Syndrome,” and “Data Warehouse ‘JOIN’s’ Oregon’s Court and Agency Systems”. She has written curricula and given presentations on behalf of the National Center for State Courts, the California Administrative Office of Courts, the Oregon Judicial Department, the Nevada Bar Association, the Battered Women’s Justice Project, and Futures Without Violence, among others. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar and the American Bar Association and is a graduate of Willamette University College of Law and the University of Oregon. Ms. Yetter joined the faculty of The National Judicial College in 2013.
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The 2009 authors and editors
HONORABLE FORREST DONALD BRIDGES
Judge Forrest Donald Bridges serves as Senior Resident Superior Court Judge in District 27B, Cleveland and Lincoln counties, North Carolina. He was first elected to the Superior Court in November 1994 after 17 years in private practice. At the time of his election, he was senior partner in the firm of Bridges, Gilbert & Foster, P.A., a firm he founded in 1982. Judge Bridges is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He also attended the United States Air Force Academy. He serves on the Education Committee of the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges and enjoys participating in the New Judges School through the School of Government. He also teaches undergraduate courses in business law and criminal justice at Gardner Webb University. Judge Bridges joined the faculty of The National Judicial College in 2006.
HONORABLE O.H. EATON, JR.
Judge O. H. Eaton has been a judge for the 18th Judicial Circuit of Florida since 1986. He served as chief judge from 1989-1991 and has been assigned in every division of the court, including criminal, civil, family, juvenile, and probate. He is presently assigned as the criminal division administrative judge in Seminole County. Judge Eaton obtained his bachelor’s degree and his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida. He has served on numerous commissions and committees. He is the past chair of the Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee and chair of the Supreme Court of Florida’s Criminal Court Steering Committee. He is a former member of the Executive Counsel of the Criminal Law Section of the Florida Bar and the Florida Sentencing Commission. He is a member of the faculty of Florida’s College of Advanced Judicial Studies where he teaches “Handling Capital Cases.” He is an adjunct professor at Barry University, School of Law in Orlando, Florida. Judge Eaton has received a number of awards throughout his judicial career and in 1999 was given the Steven M. Goldstein Criminal Justice Award for Lifelong Commitment to the Causes of Liberty and Justice. He has been designated to be the 2009 recipient of the Selig Golden Award presented by the Criminal Law Section of The Florida Bar. He has published articles in “The Stetson Law Review,” “The Florida Bar Journal,” the “Florida Defender,” and “In Brief.” Judge Eaton is an alumnus of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2000.
TODD ELWYN, J.D., M.D.
Todd Elwyn is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine. He is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. He is board- certified in Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry. He attended law school at the University of Washington and medical school at the University of Michigan. He practices forensic and general psychiatry as part of the Tripler Army Medical Center healthcare system in Hawaii.
HONORABLE KEVIN M. EMAS
Judge Kevin M. Emas has served on the bench of the County Court and Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida since 1996. He previously practiced law for 15 years specializing in criminal defense and civil rights. Judge Emas earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Florida and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Miami. He served as faculty chair for the Criminal Track at the Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies and as a faculty member of the Florida Judicial College. He is also a certified instructor for the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges where he has taught criminal discovery, trial skills, search and seizure, and sentencing issues at statewide judicial education programs. He is a member of Florida’s “Handling Capital Cases” course where he teaches pretrial, trial, sentencing, and post-conviction proceedings in death penalty cases. He has served as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Miami School of Law and St. Thomas Law School teaching trial skills and ethics. He is a former chair of the Florida Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, chair of the criminal section of the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges, and a member of the Executive Council for the Florida Bar Criminal Law Section. Judge Emas is an alumnus of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2005.
HONORABLE C. DARNELL JONES, II
Judge C. Darnell Jones, II was sworn in as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after nomination by President George W. Bush in 2008. He previously served as President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from December 2005 until his appointment in October 2008. He was appointed Chair of the Administrative Governing Board of the First Judicial District by the Supreme Court shortly after his election as President Judge. That body is the coordinating body for all FJD courts: Common Pleas, Municipal, and Traffic. Judge Jones served as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania beginning in 1987. He held various positions on the Court of Common Pleas, including: managing judge of the Adult Probation and Parole Department, member of the Judicial Education Committee, presiding judge and Co-Coordinating Judge of the Homicide Division, and presiding judge in the Major Civil Trial Division. He served as a presiding judge in the Commerce Case Management Program (Business Court), and also served as a Supervising Judge of the Philadelphia County Grand Jury. Prior to becoming a judge, he practiced law at the Defender Association of Philadelphia where, among other responsibilities, he served as chief of the Family Court Division. Immediately prior to becoming a judge, he worked for the Citizens Crime Commission. Judge Jones obtained his bachelor’s degree from Southwestern College in French, and his Juris Doctor from American University, Washington College of Law. He is a member of University of Pennsylvania American Inn of Court. Judge Jones was named one of the 500 leading judges in America by Lawdragon magazine in 2005. In October 2006, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Business Court Judges at their annual meeting at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC. He has been appointed a Business Court Representative to the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, and serves as a liaison to the Judicial Section of the ABA. Judge Jones is an alumnus of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 1998.
HONORABLE CYNTHIA STEVENS KENT
Judge Cynthia Stevens Kent served in the 114th Judicial District Court of Tyler and Quitman, Texas from 1989 until December 31, 2008 when she retired from the bench. Prior to that, she served as a county court law judge from 1984 to 1988. She now is in private practice as a shareholder with the law firm of Kent, Good, Anderson and Bush, P.C. in Tyler, Texas, a Civil and Criminal Litigation firm. She also practiced law for seven years before taking the bench in 1984 and focused her practice in personal injury and civil trial, family law, and criminal law cases. Judge Kent attended Baylor University and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston, her Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law, and her Master’s of Judicial Studies degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. Judge Kent is past chair of the Texas Center for the Judiciary, Inc., and the Judicial Section of the State Bar of Texas. She has been teaching undergraduate, graduate, continuing legal education, and continuing judicial education since 1986. She has taught at the University of Texas at Tyler, Texas College for the Judiciary, Texas Judicial Regional Conference, Texas Annual Judicial Conference, Texas College for Advanced Judicial Studies, Texas Association of Court Administrators, Texas Association of Municipal Judges, Texas Association of County and District Clerks, and the Texas Association of County Judges and Commissioners. In 1996 Judge Kent was a special guest speaker at the South Dakota Annual Judicial Conference on “Handling Capital Cases” and at the Missouri Annual Judicial Conference. In 1994 she was the keynote speaker for the Kansas State Judges Annual Conference and spoke on the topic of “Handling Capital Cases—Death is Different.” In 2004 Judge Kent was the faculty director and presenter at the Texas Annual Judicial Conference on “Handling Capital Cases” and “Media Management in High Profile Cases.” She was also a faculty presenter on “Handling High Profile Cases” for the Texas Association of Defense Counsel in April of 2004. She was Smith County Young Lawyer of the Year in 1990 and Texas State M.A.D.D. Judge of the Year in 1989. Judge Kent is the author of Texas County Court at Law Judges’ Benchbook and co-author of Texas District Judges’ Benchbook. She has written over 100 papers presented to more than 40 judicial conferences. Judge Kent is an alumna of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 1993.
HONORABLE MEGAN E. MAAG-KLINE
Magistrate Megan E. Maag-Kline has served the Butler County Common Pleas Court since November, 2005. She received her bachelor and law degrees from the University of Cincinnati. Magistrate Maag-Kline worked on the Ohio Innocence Project on a team that obtained release of a wrongfully convicted man who had spent twenty-five years in prison. She published a law review article titled In Favor of "Trina's Law": A Proposal to Allow Crime Victims in Ohio to Use the Criminal Convictions of the Perpetrators as Collateral Estoppel in Subsequent Civil Cases in the Capital University Law Review in 2003.
MELISSA PIASECKI, M.D.
Dr. Melissa Piasecki is a Professor of Psychiatry and has been teaching at the University of Nevada School of Medicine since 1995. Her specialty is forensic psychiatry. She earned her bachelor’s degree and her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her psychiatry residency at the University of Vermont and her forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Hawaii. She teaches psychiatry, the neuroscience of addiction, and forensic psychiatry to medical students, medical residents, and legal professionals. Dr. Piasecki has instructed in “Best Practices in Capital Cases” throughout the United States. She is also active as a forensic psychiatrist in civil and criminal litigation. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Piasecki is an alumna of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2005.
HONORABLE MICHAEL J. SAGE
Judge Michael J. Sage has served on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas, Butler County, Ohio, since February 1991. Previously he spent five years as a Butler County prosecutor and 13 years in private practice. Judge Sage earned his bachelor’s degree from Miami University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton. He has lectured nationally and statewide on the subject of mental health courts. Judge Sage’s SAMI (Substance Abuse/Mentally Ill) Court was the first felony mental health court in the United States. He is currently serving as the first vice president of the Ohio Common Pleas Judges Association and also as a commissioner on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which is responsible for the drafting of Ohio Rules of Evidence and Ohio’s Rules of Criminal and Civil Procedure. Judge Sage is a member of the faculty of the Ohio Judicial College where he has taught the subjects of mental health courts, evidence, and death penalty litigation. Judge Sage is a Vietnam combat veteran and a retired captain in the United States Navy after serving 30 years on active and reserve duty. Judge Sage is an alumnus of The National Judicial College and joined its faculty in 2006.
HONORABLE V. LEE SINCLAIR, JR. (See 2020 authors and editors)
PROFESSOR PENNY J. WHITE (See 2020 authors and editors)
Professor Penny White has served as a judge at every level of the court system in Tennessee. In 1990 she was elected to serve as circuit judge in the First Judicial District of Tennessee, the first woman to seek and hold that office. In 1992 she was appointed to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and in 1994 she was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, the second woman and youngest person ever to hold that office. Before taking the bench, Professor White was an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow at the Georgetown University Criminal Justice Clinic serving as supervising attorney and was clinical instructor for the Maryland Clinic. Thereafter she opened her own firm in Johnson City, Tennessee, emphasizing defense and civil rights litigation. In 1988 she successfully argued Houston v. Lack before the United States Supreme Court. Professor White is presently the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution at the University of Tennessee College of Law where she teaches evidence, professional responsibility, media impact on justice, trial practice, and pretrial litigation. Professor White teaches judicial and legal education courses and writes frequently on the topics of judicial ethics, selection, independence, capital punishment, criminal procedure, and evidence. She has authored three benchbooks for the Tennessee judiciary and two books for general use in judicial education programs. Professor White is an alumna of The National Judicial College, formerly chair of the Faculty Council, and joined its faculty in 1993.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
DAPHNE A. BURNS, PROGRAM ATTORNEY
Daphne Burns joined The National Judicial College as a program attorney in March 2008. Prior to joining the college, Ms. Burns had an appellate practice in Charleston, South Carolina where she practiced before the state appellate courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She also practiced in Southern California, Oklahoma, and Iowa—primarily in the business law arena. For eight years, she served as the editor of Voir Dire for the American Board of Trial Advocates; she also served as staff counsel and general counsel for the organization. Ms. Burns served on the staff of the Honorable George Nigh, Governor of Oklahoma, and in the private practice of the Honorable Stratton Taylor, President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma, College of Law where she served as class president and was a member of Phi Delta Phi. As a visiting student at Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, she served as a legal intern to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. She is admitted to practice in California, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Iowa, and Missouri as well as before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court.
ROBIN E. WOSJE, ESQ., DIRECTOR of GRANT PROJECTS and SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Ms. Robin Wosje joined The National Judicial College as a program attorney in November 2000. In January 2005 she became the assistant academic director and in January 2006 became the academic director. On August 1, 2007, Ms. Wosje became the chief academic officer of The National Judicial College and on June 11, 2008, she became the Director of Grant Projects and Special Initiatives. As a program attorney, Ms. Wosje presented educational courses to judges on topics such as evidence, substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, and mental illness. She remains active in the presentation of courses on managing capital cases. In 2007 Ms. Wosje became qualified to administer the Myers Brigg Type Indicator instrument. Ms. Wosje was admitted to the California State Bar in 1997 after receiving her Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a member of the American Bar Association, American Law Institute, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Association for Psychological Type International. She is a past president of the National Association of State Judicial Educators and serves on several of its committees. Ms. Wosje is co-editor of the publication Effective Judging for Busy Judges (2006) and A Judge’s Guide to Juveniles Before the Adult Criminal Court, and the model curriculum Cultural Competence: Model Curriculum for Judges (2005). She co-authored the article Judges as Change Agents NEV. LAW (Dec. 2002) and is editor of the model curriculum Co-Occurring Disorders: Model Curriculum for Judges (2003).