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; and
• 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.

Executive Board Members

Michelle Diaz (NY)   National Chair   New York State Advisory Group Member	Tracey L. Wells-Huggins (NJ) National Vice Chair New Jersey State Advisory Group Member
Pastor Edward L. Palmer, Sr. (KY) Immediate Past Chair Member, Kentucky Juvenile Justice Advisory Board	Mark Hutchinson (MA) Treasurer/Secretary Justice Resource Institute
Barbara Wallace (NJ) Ethnic & Cultural Diversity Chair New Jersey Governor's Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention Committee	Aaron Toleafoa (WA) Emerging Leaders Committee Chair Washington State Advisory Group Member
The Honorable Michael Mayer (MN) Midwestern Region Chair Minnesota State Advisory Group Member, State District Court Judge, 1st Judicial District, Minnesota	Callie Hargett (MN) Midwestern Regional Representative Director of Youth Justice Office at MN Department of        Public Safety
Janelle Ridley (MA) Northeastern Region Chair Founder of Transition HOPE	Jill Ruggiero (CT) Northeast Region Representative  Consultant
Chief Tony Jones (FL) Southern Region Chair Chief of Police, City of Gainesville	Hasan Davis (KY) Southern Region Representative
Stacie Nelson Colling (CO) Western Region Representative Juvenile Defense Coordinator, Colorado Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel	The Honorable Joan Byer (KY) Southern Region Representative Bowles & Byer Family Law Mediation
Jack Martin (NV) Western Region Chair Director of Clark County Juvenile Justice Services	Alice Coil (WA) Western Region Representative, Deputy Director, Office of Juvenile Justice Department of Children, Youth, and Families
Anya Sekino (OR) National Juvenile Justice Specialist Juvenile Justice Specialist, Oregon State Advisory Group	Toni Lemons (DC) National Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator Representative Compliance Monitor, Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator,  Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
Cecely Reardon (MA) Representative At-Large Acting Commissioner, Department of Youth Services	Melissa Milchman (DC) Government Relations Committee Chair Juvenile Justice Specialist, Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
Danny Turek (OH) National Compliance Monitor Department of Youth Services	Shay Bilchik (MD)    Representative at Large    Founder/Director Emeritus, Juvenile Justice Reform, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Rachel Bingham (KY) Organizational Representative  Director of the Office of Statewide Programs, Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts