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2002
Report on Trends in the State Courts
Authors
Bryant,
H. : : Carlson, A.: : Finn,
K. : : Hannaford, P. : : Herman,
M. : : Keith, A. : : Murer,
A. : : Pankey, K. : : Romberger,
W. : : Skove, A. : : Steketee,
M. : : Walker, D. : : Walker,
L.
Holly
Shaver Bryant
Holly
Bryant works for the Knowledge and Information Services Office (KIS)
of the National Center for State Court. She conducts
research and develops content for the Court Information Database
and responds to information requests at the National Center's
new Customer Service Desk. She earned a J.D. at the
William and Mary School of law in 2002. She also received
a B.A. in English from the College of William and Mary.
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Alan
Carlson
Alan
Carlson is President of the Justice Management Institute (JMI).
His responsibilities include serving as project director and
senior staff on technical assistance projects for states and
local jurisdictions; developing programs in justice system
education; and serving as liaison with the National Association
for Court Management (NACM) and the COSCA/NACM Joint Technology
Committee. Mr. Carlson received his J.D. from Hastings
College of the Law and his B.S. from the University of
California at Berkeley.
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Kala
M. Finn
Kala Finn is
the Deputy Director of the International Visitors Education
Program of the National Center for State Courts and is the
Administrator for the International Partners Program. She
also works with the Knowledge and Information Services Office (KIS),
conducting research and developing content for the Court
Information Database and responding to information requests.
Ms. Finn received her J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center and
her B.A. from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
She is an active member of the Virginia State Bar and a member
of the American Bar Association.
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Carol
R. Flango
Carol R.
Flango is the Director of Knowledge and Information Services at
the National Center for State Courts. She has directed
projects in the family and appellate areas; has written several
articles on families and the courts and a book on adoption; and
was the lead author of How Are Courts Coordinating Family
Cases? (NCSC 1999).
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Paula
L. Hannaford-Agor
Paula L.
Hannaford-Agor is a principal court research consultant in the
Research Division of the National Center for State Courts.
She is a project director and has authored or contributed to
several publications, particularly on the subject of jury system
management and trial procedure. Her other areas of
expertise include access to justice for pro se litigants;
management of complex litigation; legal and judicial ethics and
discipline; state-federal jurisdiction; and probate and
guardianship procedure. She received a law degree and a
Masters degree in public policy from the College of William and
Mary.
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Madelynn
M. Herman
Madelynn M.
Herman has been a Knowledge Management Analyst for the National
Center for State Courts' Knowledge and Information Services
Office (KIS) since October 1998. She responds to requests
for technical assistance from decision and policymakers in the
judicial system, develops content for the National Center's Web
site, and assists with various research projects. She was
a domestic violence shelter director and certified mediator
before joining the National Center. She received her B.S.
from Northern Illinois University and has attended graduate
courses at San Diego State University.
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Ann
L. Keith
Ann L. Keith
is a Court Research Associate in the Research Division of the
National Center for State Courts. Her research projects
include Expediting Appeals for Dependency Cases and Family
Courts with Criminal Domestic Violence Jurisdiction.
Before joining the National Center, she was an elementary school
principal in Tucson, Arizona. She received a J.D. at the
William and Mary School of Law. She also has an M.Ed. in
educational leadership from Northern Arizona University and a
B.A. in elementary education from the University of Arizona.
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Amanda
C. Murer
Amanda Murer
is a Knowledge and Information Specialist. She provides
information and technical assistance to the court community in
the areas of court security, disaster recovery, and the
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). She was the project
assistant for the ADA Resource Center for State Courts,
where she helped establish ada4courts, an exclusive
listserv for the ADA coordinators Ms. Murer also staffs the
National Center's Customer Service Desk. She received her
bachelor's degree in political science from East Carolina
University.
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Kenneth
G. Pankey, Jr.
Kenneth
Pankey is a Senior Information Analyst in the Knowledge and
Information Services Office (KIS), where he concentrates on the
areas of court financial issues, court structure, and futures
thinking and planning. He is the editor/coordinator of the
2002 Report on Trends in the State Courts. Mr.
Pankey earned his J.D. from the College of William and Mary.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hampden-Sydney College
with honors in political science and history. He became a
Fellow of the Institute for Court Management in 1999.
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Wanda
L. Romberger
Wanda
Romberger is a Manager, Court Interpreting Services, in the
Research Division of the National Center for State Courts.
She coordinates and facilitates the activities of the Consortium
for State Court Interpreter Certification and assists the
project director of the Federal Court Interpreter Certification
program. Before joining the National Center, Ms. Romberger
was a Court Operations Consultant with the Florida Office of the
State Courts Administrator, where she implemented, evaluated,
and managed the Court Interpreters Program.
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Ann
Endress Skove
Anne Skove, a
Knowledge Management Analyst with the Knowledge and Information
Services Office (KIS), joined the National Center in December
1996. Her KIS subject areas include substance abuse,
family and domestic issues, ADR, juries, the legal profession,
indigent defense, rulemaking, and court futures. She also
assists the Ohio State University School of Law with its ADR
Court Consultation Project, linking student researchers with
court mediation programs. Ms. Skove received her J.D. from
Washington and Lee School of Law in 1996 and her A.B. in English
from the University of Chicago in 1991. She is certified
as a mediator by the Virginia Supreme Court.
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Martha
Wade Steketee
Martha
Steketee is a Research Associate in the Washington Office of the
National Center for State Courts. Her work at the National
Center includes court-based domestic violence cse processing;
interdisciplinary and interorganizational initiatives to address
both child maltreatment and domestic violence; child and family
welfare-based court caseload and judicial workload measures; and
policies to address public access to court electronic case
records. Ms. Steketee received an A.B. from Harvard
College, an M.S.W. with a specialty in child welfare policy frmo
Washington University in St. Louis, and additional doctoral
training at the University of Michigan and University of
Pittsburgh.
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J.
Douglas Walker
Doug Walker
is a Principal Court Technology Consultant in the National
Center for State Courts' Technology Services unit. He has
served as director of court technology research since 1992 and
is responsible for national-scope technology projects to develop
a Web-based information clearinghouse, determine guidelines for
electronic exchange of court documents, design efective display
systems for court management information, and investigate the
effective court use of other advanced technologies. Mr.
Walker received a B.A. degree in English and earned an M.S.
degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
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Linda
L. Walker
Lin Walker
joined Technology Services as a Technology Specialist in
February 1994, where she served as project director of the
Technology Information Service before joining the Knowledge and
Information Services Office. Her primary responsibilities
include the National Center's Web site, the Court Information
Database, and Court Technology Conferences. She received
her Master's degree in Computer Information Systems from New
Hampshire College Graduate School.
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