Executive Board
Executive Board Roles and Responsibilities
The Executive Board holds legal, fiduciary, strategic, and policy-setting authority for CJJ and is empowered to take action between meetings of the Council of SAGs. All members are voluntary and serve without remuneration. There is potential for the Executive Board to have as many as 20 members, all of whom serve staggered two-year terms. They are elected or appointed as follows:
- The CJJ National Chair, Vice Chair, Immediate Past Chair, Treasurer/Secretary, Youth Chair, and Ethnic & Cultural Diversity Chair – are elected by the CJJ Council of SAGs
- The National Juvenile Justice Specialist Representative, the National Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator Representative, and the National Compliance Monitor Representative are elected by Specialists, R/ED Coordinators, and Compliance Monitors respectively, who work with SAGs in good member standing with CJJ
- Four Regional Chairs and Four Regional Representatives are elected by SAG members, Affiliate Organization members, and Members at Large within each of CJJ’s four regions. All Regional Chairs must represent a member SAG
2025 Executive Board Nominations
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Executive Board Members
Tracey L. Wells-Huggins
Nevada
National Chair
Client Executive, Tyler Technologies
Janelle Ridley
Massachusettes
National Vice Chair/Northeast Regional Chair
Director of Programs, Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, Roxbury Community College
Tracey L. Wells-Huggins
New Jersey
Immediate Past Chair
New Jersey State Advisory Group Member
James Hollywood III
Washington, D.C.
Treasurer/Secretary
Executive Director, Together for You, Inc.
Raymond Vincent
Louisiana
R/ED Vice Chair/Southern Regional Representative
Louisiana State Programmer, Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement
Rebekah Arnold
Colorado
Emerging Leaders Committee Chair
Bridges Service Professional, Bridges of Colorado
Stacie Nelson Collings
Colorado
Western Regional Representative
Youth Defense Coordinator
Colorado Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel
Callie Hargett
Minnesota
Midwestern Regional Representative
Director of Youth Justice Office at MN Department of Public Safety
Jill Ward
Maine
Northeast Regional Representative
Director, Center for Youth Policy & Law
Clinics at Maine Law
Dr. Sarah Vinson
Georgia
Southern Regional Chair
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Hasan Davis
Kentucky
Southern Regional Representative
CEO and Founder Hasan Davis (HD) Solutions INC
Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni
Hawaii
Western Regional Representative
President and CEO, Partners in Development Foundation
Max Mendoza
Kansas
Western Region Chair
Juvenile Defense Coordinator, Colorado, Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel
Rachel Bingham
Kentucky
Organizational Membership Chair
Youth Justice Consultant
Kiley Komro
Wisconsin
National Juvenile Justice Specialist
Juvenile Justice Specialist, Wisconsin State Advisory Group
Victoria Key-Walker
Michigan
National Racial and Ethnic Disparities Chair
Juvenile Re-Entry Supervisor/R/ED Coordinator Michigan
Cecely Reardon
Massachusetts
Representative at Large
Acting Commissioner, Department of Youth Services
Monica Celli
Delaware
Government Relations Committee Chair
Criminal Justice Coordinator
Samantha Armendariz
New Mexico
National Compliance Monitor
Children, Youth, and Families Department of New Mexico
Pastor Edward L. Palmer Sr.
Kentucky
Representative at Large Member
Pastor, Certified Diversity Trainer, and Juvenile Justice Advocate
Barbara Wallace
New Jersey
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Chair
SAG Chair