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Creating
a Life Out of the Ashes
 Luncheon
Speaker
Dr.
Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico
in 1952. His awards and honors include the Wallace Stevens
Chair at Yale, the National Endowment Poetry Award, Vogelstein
Foundation Award, National Hispanic Heritage Award, Berkeley
Regents Award, Pushcart Prize, Southwest Book Award, American
Book Award, and the International Prize.
Swept up in
the narco-police madness that swirls in the barrios and
ghettos of America, a nearly illiterate Baca went to jail
in his early twenties and served hard, flat time, with no
parole. Five years later, he emerged from prison a voracious
reader and a skilled self-taught writer. Baca emerged from
prison a passionate and critical voice for Contemporary
American Poetry.
Baca is the author
of A Place to Stand, a memoir, and numerous books
of poetry, including Healing Earthquakes, Black Mesa
Poetry, Martin and Meditations on the South Valley, and
Immigrants in Our Own Land. CD’s include Healing
Earthquakes, Strike Zones, 13 Mexicans, and Defiant Reaction.
Movie scripts and productions include Bound by Honor
(Blood In, Blood Out), Disney Productions, and The
Lone Wolf – The Story of Pancho Gonzalez, HBO Productions.
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| The
New Separate and Unequal: Educating and Serving Troubled
Youth
 Keynote
Speaker
Judge David A. Mitchell
Executive Director of
The National Council of
Juvenile and Family Court Judges
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada
JUDGE
DAVID B. MITCHELL, (Ret.), is the Executive Director of
the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges,
Reno, Nevada. Prior to his retirement in November
2001, he was an Associate Judge of the Baltimore City Circuit
Court, Baltimore, Maryland.
Judge
Mitchell was appointed to Maryland’s Eighth Judicial Circuit
in 1984, re-elected in 1986, and served in the jurisdiction
until his retirement in November 2001. Although he
most recently served as the Administrative Judge of the
Criminal Division, he served as Judge-in-Charge of Baltimore’s
Juvenile Division from 1984 to 1995, where his accomplishments
included enlisting volunteer advocates for children in the
system, computerizing court records, and working for a new
Juvenile Justice Center.
Education:
Columbia University School
of Law, New York City, New York, 1970.
Admitted to Bar of Maryland,
December 11, 1970.
Fisk University, Nashville,
Tennessee, B.A. degree, 1967.
The Peddie School, Highstown,
New Jersey, 1963.
Recipient of the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for Appellate
Advocacy, 1968.
Professional
Experiences:
Circuit
Court for Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland, 1984 to 2001.
Editorial
Advisory Board, Center for the Future of Children, The David
and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1994-1999 (approximate).
Adjunct
Professor, (Legal Writing), University of Baltimore School
of
Law, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993-94 (approximate).
Mitchell, Gibson & Lee (later Mitchell & Lee, PA),
Baltimore, Maryland, 1973-84.
Office of the Public Defender, Baltimore, Maryland, 1973-74
(trial attorney,Juvenile Division).
State
Attorney’s Office of Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland,
1970-73.
Brown,
Allen & Josey, Baltimore, Maryland, 1970-72.
Professional Activities
& Memberships
Standing
Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Commissioner,
Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland.
Character
Committee of the Court of Appeals.
Bar
Association of Baltimore City.
Maryland
State Bar Association (Member, Board of Governors).
Monumental
City Bar Association (All officer positions except president).
American
Association of Hospital Attorneys.
National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges:
Member, Board of Trustees
Chairman, Metropolitan Court Judges Committee
Host, 53rd Annual Conference, 1995
Lecturer, National College of Juvenile and Family Law
Chairman,
Advisory Board, Department of Juvenile Services
Member,
Joint Legislative and Judicial Committee on “Oversight of
the Department of
Juvenile
Services.”
American
Society of Association Executives
National
Association of Counsel for Children
National
Association of State Judicial Educators
Washoe
County Bar Association
National
Advisory Board Member, National Children’s Law Office Project
Civic Activities:
Board
of Trustees, Jentry McDonald Home for Children
Board
of Trustees, The Peddie School, New Jersey
Founder and member of Board of Trustees, Baltimore Court
Appointed
Special Advocates (CASA) Program
Chairman,
Board of Trustees, Fort Smallwood Marine Institute, Inc.
Associate
Marine Institutes, Inc., Tampa, Florida:
Member and Chairman, Program Development Committee
Member
and Chairman, Human Resources and
Risk
Management Committee.
Member
and Chairman, Executive Committee
Member and Chairman, Board of Trustees
Associate
Marine Institutes Foundation, Inc.
Florida
Environmental Institute, Inc.
Intergovernmental
Relations Committee, United Way of Central Maryland
Member
and Chairman, Board of Trustee4s, Baraka School, Nairobi,
Kenya
Board
of Advisors, Federal Pre-Trial Release Program
Founder and Chairman, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
of Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland
National
Crime Prevention Council
African-American
Family Consortium, Associated Black Charities
Fisk University Club of Baltimore, Past President and current
Vice President
Member,
Board of Trustees, Washoe County CASA Association
Member,
Board of Trustees, ACLU of Nevada
Born in The Bronx, New
York, Judge Mitchell is married to Diane Thomas Mitchell.
He has three grown children and two grandchildren. He now
resides in Reno, Nevada.
Memberships
- Since January 2002
American Society
of Association Executives
Natonal Association of
Counsel for Children
National Association
of State Judicial Educators
Washoe County Bar Association
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