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| CHRIS CRAWFORD is a court management consultant and President of JUSTICE SERVED. He serves as faculty for the Institute for Court Management, California Center for Judicial Education and Research, California Judicial Council, and various professional associations. In 1997-98, Mr. Crawford served as project director and worked with the Hong Kong Judiciary to implement an Information Technology Strategic Plan. Mr. Crawford has over 28 years of court management experience, including serving as Court Administrator for the South Bay Municipal Court and in many other management and administrative positions in the Los Angeles Municipal Court, Beverly Hills Municipal Court, and Catalina Justice Court. As a former court manager, and as a teacher and private consultant, he has a keen insight into future court trends and emerging policy issues affecting trial courts. Since 2005, Chris has served as chair of FACT, the Forum on the Advancement of Court Technology. |
| ccrawford@justiceserved.com |
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| PHYLLIS SMITH is a court management consultant with 23 years experience in court administration, serving as Court Executive Officer with the Sutter County (California) Consolidated Municipal and Superior Court and in various management positions with the Sacramento Superior and Municipal Courts. Ms. Smith was project manager of the team that produced an automation feasibility study for the Hong Kong Judiciary, and has extensive experience in the development and implementation of integrated criminal justice automation systems. |
| psmith@justiceserved.com |
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| ALEXANDER B. AIKMAN is a consultant to trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Mr. Aikman was associated with the National Center for State Courts for almost 21 years, serving as a senior staff attorney, a senior fellow, and a regional vice president over those years. He also was the Court Executive Officer of the Superior Court of El Dorado County, California, for four and a half years. He has directed scores of projects undertaken for individual courts and state court systems as well as nationally oriented research efforts. His areas of specialization include caseflow management, total quality management, jury management, court reporting, management information, and organizational structure. He has authored or co-authored seven books and numerous articles on various aspects of court administration. He is a senior faculty member of the Institute for Court Management. Prior to joining the National Center in 1973, Mr. Aikman practiced law in San Francisco. He received his BA degree from Wesleyan University and holds JD and LL.M. degrees from The University of Chicago. |
| abaikman@earthlink.net |
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| TERI SULLIVAN, is a justice consultant with over 20 years experience in management, IT development, and project management positions. She specializes in the planning, procurement, implementation, management, security and enhancement stages of their information technology initiatives. This includes strategic and tactical planning, requirements definition, business process analysis, performance measures, technology implementation, and project management. As the Director of the Justice Information Systems in Nashville, Tennessee, she managed the agency that delivered a complex, integrated, enterprise-level justice system that impacted nearly every justice agency in the county. As a consultant for SEARCH Group, Inc. she provided services to jurisdictions that were in the process of acquiring, developing, upgrading, or integrating their information systems. Ms. Sullivan is a licensed attorney, obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in IS Management (B.A) from Belmont University, completed the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute, is a Fellow of the Institute of Court Management from the National Center of State Courts, and is certified in the use of the Justice Information Exchange Model (JIEM) tool. |
| terisullivan@tds.net |
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| MICHAEL ASNER is recognized as one of North America’s leading speakers, consultants, and authors dealing with public sector procurement and the Request for Proposal process. He helps government entities improve their RFP practices and documents.
In addition to offering RFP training and workshops throughout North America, Asner has published extensively about the RFP Process. His textbook, The Request For Proposal Handbook, is in use in more than 3500 organizations. For the last ten years, he has written and published The RFP Report, a quarterly 16-page newsletter, used by public sector buyers. His latest publication is A Searchable Library of The Best RFP Practices From More Than Sixty Jurisdictions. For a free copy of The RFP Report, visit his website: www.rfpmentor.com
He frequently writes articles on proposal writing, electronic commerce and web-based tendering systems. Visit his website at: http://www.rfpmentor.com |
| http://www.rfpmentor.com |
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| INGO KEILITZ, Ph.D., has helped shape the landscape of judicial administration as a major contributor to national court performance standards and guidelines including the Trial Court Performance Standards (1995), the Family Court Performance Standards and Measures (1999), the National Probate Court Standards (1993), the Guidelines for State Court Decision Making in Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment Cases (1992), and the Guidelines for Involuntary Civil Commitment (1986). He is president of Sherwood Consulting, a management and education consulting firm in Williamsburg, Virginia, specializing in organizational development, strategic planning, and performance management in the public sector. His wife, Susan, who is an attorney, is a partner of Sherwood Consulting. |
| Keilitz@prodigy.net |
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| G. THOMAS SANDBACH
Mr. Sandbach is an attorney and principal in Justice Technology Consulting, of Wilmington, Delaware, specializing in the application of information technology to criminal justice systems. For ten years at the Delaware Office of the Public Defender, he managed information systems and represented the Public Defender on the Board of Managers of the Delaware Criminal Justice Information System (DELJIS). As chair of that board, he helped to make DELJIS the most integrated statewide criminal justice information system in the United States. As a consultant, Mr. Sandbach assisted the courts of the State of Delaware in improving the sentencing process through the application of technology. In 1998 and 1999 he was responsible for the design of the prosecution and defense portions of Connecticut's integrated criminal justice information system. His current engagements include representation of DELJIS and its member agencies in the implementation of the Delaware judiciary’s new statewide case management system. His experience includes more than seventeen years involvement in facilitating the development of large criminal justice enterprise information systems. |
| www.justicetech.org |
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| H. TED RUBIN is an established national expert on juvenile/family courts and justice systems who has evaluated process, practice, and programs in approximately 300 such courts and collaborative agencies. He was Judge of the historic Denver Juvenile Court for six years and was a Colorado state legislator for four years. Later he served as Director for Juvenile Justice and then Senior Staff Attorney for the Institute for Court Management of the National Center for State Courts, Denver. There he directed ICM's juvenile justice training program (89 national workshops) and participated in a wide variety of court and justice agency studies (more than 150). He was reporter for the volume on Court Organization and Administration, IJA-ABA Joint Commission on Juvenile Justice Standards. He has authored myriad articles and research reports concerned with juvenile and family justice and corrections, along with four books: The Courts: Fulcrum of the Justice System (Second Edition, Random House, 1984), Juvenile Justice: Policy, Practice, and Law (Second Edition, Random House, 1985), Behind the Black Robes: Juvenile Court Judges and the Court (Sage, 1985), and Juvenile Justice: Policies, Practices, and Programs (Civic Research Institute, 2003). Further, he was editor of Juveniles in Justice: A Book of Readings (Goodyear 1980). From his home office in the hills outside Boulder, Colorado, he also writes six articles annually for the national publication, Juvenile Justice Update. |
| TedRubin@aol.com |
| CARTER FLEMING is owner of Gold Dog Design, an Intranet/extranet development firm for companies and individuals using the Web to its highest potential. Carter designed and administers this Website and is available to assist in court Web application development. |
| http://GoldDogDesign.com |
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Check out the JUSTICE SERVED Top-10 Court Website Awards for 2009. Drop by to see 11 years of current, and past winners, including examples of excellent court Web applications and our evaluation criteria.
Join Chris Crawford at the Court Technology Conference 2009 where he will co-present two education sessions: (1) on paper-on-demand, and (2) on court websites. He will also have a booth at space 409, so drop by and say hello in Denver, September 22-24.
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