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Provide members with an opportunity to focus on specialized skills and topics and enhance communication and information sharing among occupational or other affinity groups.

Defender Policy Group

The Defender Policy Group advises the Board of Directors regarding policy and programs relating to the provision of defender services. The Policy Group reviews matters of interest to defender organizations, issues policy statements, takes public positions and reviews requests for participation as Amicus Curiae on defender related issues in the name of the Association. Persons who are elected or appointed to the Defender Policy Group must maintain current individual membership in the Association throughout their terms of Defender Policy Group membership.

Chair: Yvonne Smith Segars, New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Trenton, New Jersey

T. Patton Adams South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense,Columbia, SC
Derwyn Bunton Orleans Public Defenders, New Orleans, LA
John Digiacinto San Mateo County Private Defender Program, Redwood City, CA
Paulino Duran Sacramento County Public Defender's Office, Sacramento, CA
Eddie Ellis, Jr. Washington, DC
Clara Hernandez El Paso County Public Defender's Office, El Paso, TX
Darryl Hunt The Darryl Hunt Foundation for Freedom and Justice, Winston-Salem, NC
Lori James-Townes L.Y. James and Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD
Robert Listenbee Defender Association of Philadelphia
Ed Monahan Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, KY
Angela Moore Bexar County Appellate Public Defender Office, San Antonio, TX
Lisa Schreibersdorf Brooklyn Defender Services, Brooklyn, NY
Michael Tobin Wisconsin State Public Defender, Madison, WI
Gary Windom Law Offices of the Public Defender, Riverside, CA