Bonnie Dumanis was sworn in as the district attorney for San Diego County in January 2003—and is the first woman to serve in this role. Prior to serving as San Diego's top prosecutor, she served as a judge. In this capacity, she was a driving force behind the creation of local drug and domestic violence courts. Dumanis sat down with Carolyn Turgeon of the Center for Court Innovation to talk about her experiences.
Walter Dickey has been a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School for almost 30 years. He has written extensively about community justice issues, and how police and prosecutors work can together with community members effectively for public safety. In early 2005, he spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his views on community prosecution.
Currently serving his second term, Paul L. Howard, Jr. assumed the Office of Fulton County District Attorney in January 1997—becoming the first African-American to be elected district attorney in the history of the State of Georgia. He spoke to the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about community prosecution.
Judge Eileen Koretz presided over the Midtown Community Court from 1997 until 2006. Before being appointed to the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1995, she was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County for nearly two decades. She sat down to talk about the Midtown Community Court's award-winning computer technology.
Portland's first community court opened in March 1998 in the North/Northeast section of the city. It was followed, two years later, in February 2000, by the opening of the Southeast Community Court. With the opening of the Westside Community Court in April 2001, all of Portland's half million citizens had access to a community court. That same year Sarah Archer-Beck of the Community Justice Exchange talked with Robyn Gregory, the Portland Community Court project coordinator, about the city's Community Court program.
Charles J. Hynes has served as district attorney of Kings County (better known as Brooklyn), New York, since 1989. Here, he discusses his interest in community prosecution and his views about criminal justice innovations.
Judge Richard Hopper is the presiding judge of the Hennepin County Community Calendar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the following interview conducted at the national community court coordinators meeting in February 2000, Judge Hopper talks about the institutional obstacles planners had to overcome to launch the court.
Judith S. Kaye served as chief judge of the State of New York from 1993 to 2008. She was the first woman to serve on New York State's highest court when Governor Cuomo appointed her Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals on September 12, 1983. Before her retirement, Judge Kaye talked about the Midtown Community Court and the Center for Court Innovation.
Former Marion County District Attorney Scott C. Newman was elected Marion County Prosecutor in 1994, and was the driving force behind the Marion County Community Court that opened in April 2001. He talked with Sarah Archer-Beck of the Community Justice Exchange about the court..
Scott C. Newman was elected Marion County District Attorney in 1994, and served until 2003. In this role he made community prosecution a key part of his overall crime-fighting strategy for Indianapolis and surrounding areas. He talked with Sarah Archer-Beck of the Community Justice Exchange about his interest in community justice and the obstacles he encountered—and overcame—as his office looked for new ways to address issues of crime and public safety.
