Jack Apsche, Ph.D., received his Doctorate in Psychological Studies and Counseling Psychology at Temple University. He is a licensed Psychologist in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Child Psychology and Adolescent Clinical Counseling as well as Cognitive, Behavioral, and Group Psychology. Dr. Apsche is also a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider in Virginia.

Dr. Apsche has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is the author of several books, including an adolescent treatment manual. He has years of experience leading the clinical programming of behavioral healthcare facilities. Over the course of his professional life he has developed, implemented and tested his own treatment paradigm ‐ Mode Deactivation Therapy. This model expands upon Cognitive‐Behavioral Theory and is focused upon conceptualizing and treating complex adolescents.

PowerPoint Presentation: Reunification of Adolescents

Honorable Zoe Bush was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1994 by President William Jefferson Clinton and is the Deputy Presiding Judge of the Family Court.

Judge Bush was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She graduated with honors from Wellesley College in 1976 and received a Waddell Fellowship, which permitted her to spend the summer in Ghana to research her honors thesis in history. Judge Bush received her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1979. Judge Bush has served in the Criminal, Civil and Domestic Violence Divisions of the Court as well as in the Family Court. She was Co‐Chair of the Training Committee of the Family Court for many years, is a member of its Implementation Committee and Panels Oversight Committee, and is a past member of the Family Rules Advisory Committee. Judge Bush also serves as a member of the Judicial Education Committee of the Superior Court as well as the Jury Management Committee and Library Committee. She is also a member of the Charlotte E. Ray American Inn of Court. She is quite active in bar activities and community service and has also been active in the Wellesley College Alumnae Association.

Judith Cohen, M.D., is the Medical Director of the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children & Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, and the Professor of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine. She is a Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Since 1983 Dr. Cohen has been funded by more than a dozen federally‐supported grants to conduct research related to the assessment and treatment of traumatized children. With her colleagues, Anthony Mannarino, Ph.D. and Esther Deblinger, Ph.D., she has developed and tested Trauma‐Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF‐CBT), an evidence‐based treatment for sexually abused and multiply traumatized children and their non‐offending parents.

Dr. Cohen has served on the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and received its Outstanding Professional Award in 2000. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), and is Associate Editor of its Journal of Traumatic Stress. She also served as the first author of the ISTSS published guidelines for treating childhood Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Dr. Cohen is the Principal Author of the Practice Parameters for the assessment and treatment of childhood PTSD published by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). In 2004, ACCAP awarded her its 2004 Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement. In addition to her research and teaching duties, Dr. Cohen maintains an active clinical practice.

PowerPoint Presentation: The Impact and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse

Michele Booth Cole, J.D., has served since June 2003 as the Executive Director of Safe Shores – The D.C. Children’s Advocacy Center, a direct service organization that unites the strengths of public and private partners to reduce trauma and promote healing for child victims of abuse and other violence. For her work with Safe Shores, Michele has been recognized by the Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation with an Exponent Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership, by WASHINGTONIAN Magazine as a 2009 Washingtonian of the Year, and by the United States Department of Health and Human Services with the Commissioner’s Award. Michele is a graduate of Harvard‐Radcliffe College and Georgetown University Law Center.

Sharon P. Cooper, M.D., F.A.A.P., is the CEO of Developmental & Forensic Pediatrics, P.A. which is a consulting firm that provides medical care, research, training and expert witness experience in child maltreatment cases as well as medical care for children with disabilities. She works regularly with numerous national and international investigative agencies on Internet crimes against children cases.

Dr. Cooper spent 21 years in the Armed Forces retiring as a Colonel and has for the past several years, worked in both the civilian and military arenas in child abuse and developmental pediatrics. She holds a faculty position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She is an instructor at the Army Medical Education Department Center and School at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where she provides multidisciplinary training in all forms of child maltreatment to health care providers, law enforcement, attorneys, judges, therapists, chaplains, and social workers.

For the past several years, Dr. Cooper has served as a consultant to the National Center for Missing& Exploited Children where she teaches about the victim aspects of Internet crimes against children and sexual exploitation through prostitution of children and youth. Dr. Cooper has lectured both nationally and internationally in well over 300 conferences for the United States Department of Justice, the FBI, the North Carolina District Attorney’s Association, several Attorney General’s conferences in various states in the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and Interpol among others. She regularly provides training to pediatric residency programs at numerous medical schools across the United States. She has published chapters in several texts, and is the lead author of the first comprehensive textbook on the medical, legal, and social science aspects of child sexual exploitation and Internet crimes against children.

Dr. Cooper has provided congressional testimonies in the United States and before the Russian Parliament regarding compliant victimization of youth who are exploited through Internet technology. She is also a member of an international Expert Working Group on Children and Young Persons with Abusive and Violent Experiences Connected to Cyberspace. She has recently been awarded a certificate from the National Judicial College as a faculty with distinction in handling child pornography cases.

Linda A. Delaney, J.D., is a partner in Delaney McKinney, L.L.P., a ten lawyer firm practicing exclusively family law in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Ms. Delaney has substantial experience representing parents and children litigating and negotiating complex child custody and divorce cases. Ms. Delaney has particular expertise in litigating psychological issues in high conflict custody cases. She has served as a guardian ad litem numerous times and has successfully mediated a number of complex child custody cases.

Ms. Delaney was a panel member in the continuing legal education course, “Children Held Hostage” presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and has served as a faculty member for numerous continuing legal education courses. Ms. Delaney is also committed to exploring global public policy solutions to improve the lives of children and families. In 2004, Ms. Delaney and her partner, Meg McKinney, founded the non‐profit public policy institute, Montauro Group. Through targeted research and writing, the organization seeks to inform and influence the economic and social policy debate around work, family, child well‐being and other vital issues. Ms. Delaney is the co‐author of “No Approximate Parents: States Should Reject ALI’s Proposed Standard for Child Custody Disputes,” Legal Times, Vol. XXVIII, No. 9, February 28, 2005.

She is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars, the Montgomery County Bar Association (Member, Family Law Section), the Maryland State Bar Association, the American Bar Association (Member, Family Law Section), and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Her community involvement includes serving on the Board of Trustees at the Sandy Spring Friends School and serving as a mentor for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Program’s Advocacy & Justice Clinic.

Prior to practicing family law, Ms. Delaney litigated complex civil rights cases. She graduated with a B.A. from the State University of New York College at Buffalo in 1979 and received her J.D. from the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1983.

PowerPoint Presentation: Identification and Evaluation of Suspected Sexual Abuse

Nancy Drane, J.D., C.W.L.S., is the Training Director at Children’s Law Center (CLC). Ms. Drane joined Children’s Law Center as a staff attorney in 2003 and became its first Training Director in 2006. Ms. Drane serves as a guardian ad litem for children in the District of Columbia’s child welfare system and coordinates CLC's internal training program and the technical assistance programs it provides to private practitioners practicing in the Abuse and Neglect Branch of the District of Columbia Superior Courtʹs Family Court. In 2009, Ms. Drane was certified as a Child Welfare Law Specialist by the National Association of Counsel for Children. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar Family Law Section, and is an Adjunct Professor at American University's Washington College of Law. Ms. Drane received a B.A. from Boston College in 1994 with a dual major in Political Science and Communication.

From 1994 to 1998, Ms. Drane worked with the Inner‐City Teaching Corps (ICTC), a volunteer service program in Chicago, Illinois. Nancy was an elementary school teacher for two years through ICTC, and then served as the program's Assistant Director. In 2001, Ms. Drane received a J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law where she was a Loyola Child Law Fellow, and the Managing Editor of the Loyola University Chicago Law Review. While in law school, Ms. Drane extended for the Childrenʹs Health and Education Project at the Chicago Lawyersʹ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining CLC, Ms. Drane was a law clerk to the Honorable Dominic J. Squatrito of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Laura Hankins is the Special Counsel to the Director at the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia (PDS). She represents PDS in commenting on legislation before the D.C. City Council. She also represents PDS on the District of Columbia Sentencing and Criminal Code Revision Commission and on the committee responsible for drafting the District’s pattern criminal jury instructions. Ms. Hankins is a member of the Legal Ethics Committee of the D.C. Bar. She began her legal career in 1992 at PDS where she represented indigent juveniles and adults accused of crimes. After five years in the trial and appellate divisions, Ms. Hankins left PDS to work in the criminal justice section at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF). Her job at the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. required Ms. Hankins to represent clients in both state and federal courts in jurisdictions including Tennessee and the Northern District of Alabama. Ms. Hankins returned to PDS in January 2000 to assume her present position. She received a B.A. in Economics from Brown University and a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School.

Kim Herd, J.D., is an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) and has been the Chief of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia since March 2009. Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Herd was the Assistant Director of the Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (LECC)‐Victim Witness Staff for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) from July 2007 to March 2009. As the Assistant Director, she provided policy, programmatic, and legal guidance on victims’ rights issues to United States Attorneys, Assistant United States Attorneys, Victim‐Witness personnel, and law enforcement coordinators across the country.

Ms. Herd began her career as an Assistant County Attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Later, as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, she prosecuted a wide variety of crimes, including fraud, human trafficking, child physical and sexual abuse and domestic violence. Ms. Herd received her law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and a Bachelors of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary.

PowerPoint Presentation: Victims Rights in the Family Court and Overlap with the Adult System - (FINAL2)

Word Document: Comparison of Crime Victims Rights Acts - Federal,DC Adult, & Juvenile

Mitchell H. Hugonnet, Ph.D., is the Director of Internship Training at the Child Guidance Clinic of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Dr. Hugonnet has extensive experience conducting psychological, neuropsychological, psycho‐educational and forensic examinations of adults and adolescents in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Dr. Hugonnet directs the Superior Court’s juvenile sex offender program and has extensive experience assessing reoffense risk. He has testified as an expert over 200 times as a forensic expert in United States District Courts, District of Columbia Superior Court and courts in other jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia. He formerly served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and a Clinical Instructor at the Howard University School of Medicine.

Dr. Hugonnet earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1986. He completed his internship and residency in clinical and forensic psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, in 1985. He has two decades of experience assessing juveniles and adults in various settings. Dr. Hugonnet has been licensed to practice psychology in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia since 1989. Since 1998, he has been certified to supervise and provide sex offender treatment and assessment services by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Dr. Hugonnet is a member of the American Psychological Association, National Academy of Neuropsychology, the Society for Personality Assessment and the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Dr. Hugonnet maintains an independent practice in clinical, adolescent, forensic and public safety psychology.

Honorable William M. Jackson is the Presiding Judge of the Family Court of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He was appointed to the bench as an associate judge in June of 1992 by President George H. Bush. Since his appointment to the bench, Judge Jackson has served in a number of divisions of the Superior Court including the Criminal Division, the Civil Division, the Domestic Violence Unit and Family Division. He has also served as the Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Unit.

Judge Jackson’s first assignment as an associate judge was in the Family Division in 1992. He presided over juvenile delinquency cases, abuse and neglect cases, paternity and support cases, and mental health hearings. During this assignment, he presided full time over a juvenile delinquency calendar and later an abuse and neglect calendar. From January 2002 through December 2005, Judge Jackson served in the Domestic Violence Unit. While assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit, he presided over thousands of cases involving individuals, families, and children who were victims of domestic violence. He also handled child custody, divorce, and paternity and support cases where there were allegations of domestic violence.

Prior to joining the bench, Judge Jackson served as a staff attorney in the Anti‐trust Division of the Department of Justice. Judge Jackson is a graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Law School. He is frequent lecturer with American Bar Association Civil Custody Institute, and teaches at the Harvard Law Trial Practice Institute and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). He serves on the Board of the Woodstock Theological Institute, a think tank at Georgetown University. He also serves on the Board of Operation Understanding D.C.

Katherine W. Killeen, Ph.D., earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington University. She graduated from the Washington School of Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program. Dr. Killeen was the Clinical Director of the Child Advocacy Network of Baltimore City from 1993 to 1997. She has also served as a Consulting Clinical Supervisor, House of Ruth; Consulting Psychologist, Baltimore City Child Protective Services; Consulting Psychologist, Harford County Child Advocacy Center; and, an Adjunct Professor, Goucher College.

Dr. Killeen is actively involved in professional organizations including the American Psychological Association, the Maryland Psychological Association, the Association for the Advancement of Psychology, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She is the immediate past president of the Maryland Psychological Association. She is in private practice in Towson, Maryland, specializing in child forensic work, custody evaluations, assessment of trauma, evaluations of juveniles, personal injury examinations in torts for emotional distress and evaluations in other Family Law related matters.

Paul M. Kratchman, J.D., is an attorney for the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General, who has devoted his legal career of nearly three decades to children, youth, and families. He currently serves as Assistant General Counsel to the Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA), which he has represented for over 10 years. Among his specialties are fair hearings and providing guidance and counsel during internal investigations into deaths of children known to CFSA.

Mr. Kratchman graduated from the Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C., where he participated in the Juvenile Law Clinic. He began his career in child welfare as an assistant public defender for Cook County (Chicago), IL. For three years, he represented minors charged with felony and misdemeanor offenses and parents charged with child abuse and neglect actions.

He has extensive experience as a trial attorney in the District of Columbia Superior Court. He served for seven years as an assistant corporation counsel (now the Office of the Attorney General) for the District of Columbia in the Family Services Division, prosecuting child abuse and neglect as well as child support matters. He has also represented children and parents in abuse and neglect cases through the Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN).

Mr. Kratchman represents CFSA on numerous groups working for children such as: D.C. Superior Court Permanency Resolution Project, Neglect Subcommittee of the Family Court, D.C. Superior Court’s Remedial Project and Child Protection Mediation Program, and the Child Victims of Physical Violence Inter‐Agency Working Group.

PowerPoint Presentation: Identification and Evaluation of Suspected Sexual Abuse

Rachel Lloyd is the Executive Director and the Founder of Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) in New York City. In 1998, with only a computer and $30, Ashoka Fellow, Reebok Human Rights Award winner and leading child sex trafficking advocate Rachel Lloyd established GEMS to support American girls and young women victimized by sex traffickers. Since 1998, GEMS has grown steadily, building its services and programs and garnering increased visibility and recognition under Lloyd’s leadership. Now the nation’s largest organization offering direct services to American victims of child sex trafficking, GEMS’ empowers girls and young women, ages 12 to 21, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the sex industry and develop their full potential.

Lloyd is a nationally recognized expert on the issue of child sex trafficking in America, and played a key role in the successful passage of New York State’s groundbreaking Safe Harbor Act for Sexually Exploited Youth, the first law in the country to end the prosecution of child victims of sex trafficking. Her trailblazing advocacy is the subject of the critically acclaimed Showtime documentary “Very Young Girls,” the upcoming memoir “Acceptable Victims” (Harper Collins), and a feature film currently in development at Participant Productions and Lifetime Networks.

In addition to the 2006 award from the Reebok Human Rights Foundation, Lloyd has been honored with the Community Service Award from the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Frederick Douglass Award from the North Star Fund, Susan B. Anthony Award from the National Organization for Women, the Community Service Award from Soroptimist International NY, and the Social Entrepreneurship Award from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Lloyd has a profoundly personal understanding of her work. A survivor of commercial sexual exploitation as a teen, Lloyd knows all too well the hidden, emotional scars such exploitation can leave on children and youth. “There have been experiences I would rather not have had and pain I wish I hadn’t felt – but every experience, every tear, every hardship has equipped me for the work I do now,” Lloyd says. “I get such deep satisfaction from knowing I’m fulfilling my purpose that my life is counting for something. It puts all the past hurts into perspective.” Rachel received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Marymount Manhattan College and her Masters in Applied Urban Anthropology from the City College of New York.

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Honorable John F. McCabe was appointed a Magistrate Judge by Chief Judge Rufus J. King III on October 21, 2002. Judge McCabe was born in New York and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a degree in economics, and received his J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1986.

He is formerly a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society for the District of Columbia, and represented indigent clients in domestic relations and public benefits proceedings. From 1990 to 1998, Judge McCabe was an Assistant Corporation Counsel with the Office of the Corporation Counsel (now the Office of the Attorney General) in Washington, D.C. During his tenure at the Office of the Corporation Counsel, he handled child abuse and neglect matters, was chief of the Domestic Violence Section, and handled civil litigation in Superior Court and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

From 1998 to 2002, Judge McCabe was an Assistant United States Attorney with the Office of the United States Attorney in Washington, D.C. During his tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, he served in the misdemeanor, felony, appellate, grand jury, and homicide sections.

Margaret J. McKinney, J.D., is a partner in Delaney McKinney, L.L.P., a ten lawyer firm practicing exclusively family law in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Ms. McKinney has practiced family law for approximately 18 years. Her litigation experience includes numerous complex divorce and child custody cases, at both the trial court and appellate levels. Ms. McKinney is also an experienced and successful mediator.

Ms. McKinney currently serves as the co‐chair of the District of Columbia Bar Family Law Task Force and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Pro Bono Committee. She serves on the Board of the Children’s Law Center and was a member of the Maryland Child Support Advisory Committee. Ms. McKinney was elected to two terms on the Steering Committee of the Family Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar, and during her tenure as co‐chair, the Family Law Section won the Best Bar Project (2002) and the Frederick B. Abramson award (2003). In January 2003, she was appointed to a three‐year term on the District of Columbia Child Support Guideline Commission, during which time the Child Support Guidelines were completely revised and updated. Additional pro bono activities include serving as a mentor for the District of Columbia Bar Pro Bono Programʹs Advocacy & Justice Clinic, volunteering for the District of Columbia Family Court Attorney Negotiator Project, and serving as a Facilitator for the ADR Project.

Ms. McKinney is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the American Bar Association, the Maryland and District of Columbia bars, and the Montgomery County Bar Association, and their Family Law Sections. She is also a member of the William Bryant Inn of Court. Ms. McKinney received her B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, in 1989, and her J.D., with honors, in 1992, from the George Washington University.

Ms. McKinney’s publications include: “No Approximate Parents: States Should Reject ALIʹs Proposed Standard for Child Custody Disputes,” Legal Times, Vol. XXVIII, No. 9, February 28, 2005; “Above Guidelines Child Support: What Does the Future Hold?,” Family Law News, Maryland State Bar Association, Inc., October 2009.

Joan S. Meier, J.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP) and Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School. DV LEAP advances legal protections for victims and their children through expert appellate advocacy, training lawyers, psychologists and judges on best practices, and spearheading domestic violence litigation in the Supreme Court. DV LEAP has a particular specialty in custody and child abuse, having litigated multiple appeals, delivered numerous trainings, and published extensively on related issues such as parental alienation. Ms. Meier has litigated hundreds of domestic violence cases at both the trial and appellate court levels, engaged in national and local domestic violence advocacy efforts in collaboration with the domestic violence community, and delivers regular trainings and workshops for lawyers, judges, advocates, and mental health professionals. At the law school, Ms. Meier has founded three pioneering inter‐disciplinary domestic violence clinical programs.

Among other community roles, she currently serves as the “public” member of the American Psychological Association’s Board for Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. She has received several awards for her advocacy on behalf of adult and child victims of abuse and for her scholarship. In 2009, she was awarded the American Bar Association’s Inaugural Sharon Corbitt Award for Exemplary Legal Services to Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking. Ms. Meier was a featured commentator in the PBS documentary, Breaking the Silence: Children’s Voices, which aired in Fall 2005. Ms. Meier received her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1980, her J.D. cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School in 1983, and clerked on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rob Okun, J.D., currently is an Executive Assistant United States Attorney for Operations. Prior to serving in that position, Mr. Okun served as the Chief of the Special Proceedings Division for approximately 12 years, where he supervised the division that responds to all post‐conviction motions filed in both Superior Court and United States District Court, including motions for relief filed under the District of Columbia Sex Offender Registration Act. He is a member of the working group that is reviewing the District of Columbia’s statutes, regulations and policies to determine what, if any, changes need to be made to these provisions so that the District is in compliance with the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Mr. Okun served as a trial attorney in the Office of Consumer Litigation at the United States Department of Justice, and as a trial attorney in the Fraud Section of the Civil Division in the United States Department of Justice. He has taught classes on whitecollar crime at The Washington College of Law (American University) and on legal reasoning at the School of Justice (American University). Mr. Okun received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Timothy Palchak graduated from Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Academy in October 1994. He served as a patrol officer in the 3rd District from 1994 until 1996. In 1998, his undercover investigations began to target commercial human trafficking violations.

From 2000 to date, Detective Palchak has concentrated on investigating child sex and physical abuse cases. His extensive background in his field includes over 1000 hours of child abuse/sexual abuse and child death investigations. In 2003, he became a Certified Child Forensic Interviewer. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit in 2005.

Detective Palchak has been guest lecture at American University and Gallaudet University in the field of child exploitation. He has also instructed social workers, mental health workers, and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) nurses on the same subject. Detective Palchak teaches undercover Child Exploitation techniques to local and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. He has been featured on WUSA news in Washington, D.C., for his efforts in combating child exploitation. He frequently speaks to church groups and elementary schools on Internet Safety.

Detective Palchak has been involved in high profile investigations. He recently conducted an arrest in United Kingdom (UK) of a registered sex offender for distributing child pornography and sexually abusing prepubescent children. Other high profile investigations include cases implicating teachers, members of law enforcement, clergy, attorneys, and even the human resources director for the Washington Times.

Detective Palchak has received awards for his efforts in combating child abuse and exploitation, both from the MPD and from the United States Attorney’s Office. He plans to continue his efforts with the MPD’s Internet Crimes against Children Unit.

Honorable Lori E. Parker was appointed a Magistrate Judge by Chief Judge Rufus G. King III on January 20, 2006. Magistrate Judge Parker is a native Washingtonian and a life‐long resident of the District of Columbia. Ms. Parker graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1986 with a degree in psychology. She received her law degree from George Washington University in 1989, and a masterʹs degree in developmental psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1999.

Prior to her appointment as a Magistrate Judge in the Family Court of the District of Columbia Superior Court, Ms. Parker served in all three branches of District government and on numerous task forces and committees. She most recently served as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families and Elders from June 2004 to December 2005, following her appointment by Mayor Anthony A. Williams in January 2004 to oversee the cityʹs social services and public health agencies as the Interim Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families and Elders. In 1994, Ms. Parker also served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Family Services Division of the Office of the Corporation Counsel. Upon her graduation from law school in 1989, Ms. Parker served as a law clerk to the Honorable Iraline G. Barnes (deceased) in the District of Columbia Superior Court. From 1990 to 1992, following her clerkship, she worked as an associate with the former Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick and Lane law firm.

Margot Richters, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist. Dr. Richters received her Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1991. Thereafter, she completed an internship at the Yale School of Medicine, followed by two years as a National Institute of Mental Health Post‐Doctoral Research Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center investigating attachment and anxiety disorders in children. Dr. Richters has been in practice in Rockville, Maryland since 1994, working with children, adolescents and adults. Approximately one‐third of Dr. Richters’ practice is devoted to children and adults who have a history of trauma and/or abuse and neglect, including children in foster care and victims of natural and manmade disasters.

Dr. Richters consults for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, the public school systems in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Richters also teaches at the University of Maryland. She is currently the disaster mental health lead for the Montgomery County chapter of the American Red Cross, where she provides onsite assistance to victims and first responders at local and national disasters. Dr. Richters lectures on issues pertaining to exposure to trauma.

Honorable Mary Grace Rook was appointed by Chief Judge Rufus G. King, III and installed as Magistrate Judge on August 18, 2006. Judge Rook was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the Catholic University of America and her Masters in Social Work from the University of Connecticut, where she specialized in clinical practice. She received her law degree from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. Prior to receiving her undergraduate degree, Judge Rook spent two years living in the Philippines and worked as the director of a crisis intervention center at Clark Air Force Base.

Upon graduation from law school, Magistrate Judge Rook worked as Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect, and also worked with the Dalton and Dalton Law Firm on special education cases. In 1999, Judge Rook took on the role of special education attorney in the civil division for the Public Defender Service, where she assisted juvenile trial attorneys whose clients had outstanding special education needs. Judge Rook was a planner and teacher at the Public Defender Service’s (PDS’) first special education training in 2000.

Following her work as a special education attorney, Judge Rook served as Coordinator of the Juvenile Services Program for PDS. In this capacity, she was responsible for training and supervising staff attorneys and law clerks that worked with PDS at the Oak Hill Youth Center and the Youth Services Center. Judge Rook was part of the truancy workgroup that developed the middle school truancy diversion program.

Honorable Michael J. Ryan was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2003 by President George W. Bush. Following his appointment to the Court in November of 2003, Judge Ryan sat on a combined Domestic Relations and Abuse & Neglect calendar for two years in Family Court. In 2006, he sat on a combined Juvenile Delinquency and Abuse & Neglect Calendar. In 2007, he returned to a combined Domestic Relations and Abuse & Neglect calendar where he currently sits. Judge Ryan chairs the Mental Health/Mental Retardation and Domestic Relations/Paternity & Support Subcommittees of the Family Court Implementation Committee and serves on the Mental Health/Mental Retardation Panels Subcommittee of the Panels Oversight Committee, the Mental Health/Mental Retardation Rules Advisory Committee, and the Pre‐Trial Mental Examination Committee.

Judge Ryan was born and raised in the District of Columbia Metropolitan area. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, with honors, from the College of William and Mary in 1979 and received his law degree in 1982 from the National Law Center, George Washington University. Following graduation from law school, Judge Ryan served as law clerk, was a partner in his own law practice and an attorney at the Public Defender Service (PDS) and later as Special Counsel to the Director of PDS. He has lectured extensively on the use and admission of expert witness testimony, especially as it relates to issues in psychology and psychiatry.

Judge Ryan continues to chair the District of Columbia Jail Diversion Task Force, and has also served on the Superior Court’s Family Division Mental Health and Mental Retardation Branch Working Group and as an Advisory Board Member of the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project of the Police Executive Research Forum. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine – currently inactive – and was a contributing writer to the Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter of the American Bar Association.

Honorable Lee F. Satterfield was appointed in November 1992 by President George Bush to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and sworn‐in as the Chief Judge in September 2008. Chief Judge Satterfield was born in the District of Columbia. He graduated from St. John’s College High School, the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and received his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University National Law Center.

Chief Judge Satterfield began his law career as a judicial law clerk to Associate Judge Paul R. Webber, III, in the District of Columbia Superior Court and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He also joined private practice of law and worked for the United States Department of Justice. Once becoming an Associate Judge, he served in the Criminal, Civil and Family Divisions, and the Domestic Violence Unit. He has previously served as the Presiding Judge for the Domestic Violence Unit and the Family Court. During the time he was Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Unit, he chaired the Domestic Violence Unit’s Implementation Group, the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, and the Domestic Violence Advisory Rules Committee, which created new rules governing domestic violence cases in the Unit. During this time, Chief Judge Satterfield also served as a member of a National Advisory Committee on Domestic Violence, which developed model guidelines for the creation and operation of domestic violence courts.

Chief Judge Satterfield has served as a Lead Judge in the Model Court Initiative of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the NCJFCJ and is a member of the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence’s Steering Committee and faculty. Chief Judge Satterfield is a member of the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration, which is the policymaking body of the District of Columbia Courts.

Wendy Smeltzer is a Supervisor for the Youth Family Team Meeting Unit within the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS). Wendy has 14 years of experience in the field of mental health and has worked in a variety of settings to include private practice, out‐patient clinics and public schools. With a background in art psychotherapy, Wendy began her professional career in Baltimore City working with children and adults traumatized by sexual abuse and domestic violence. She later joined a school‐based mental health initiative with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland where she provided art therapy in the Baltimore City public school system. Because of her experience working in the schools, Wendy was asked to be a featured conference speaker for the University of Maryland’s Journalism Fellowship in 2000 on Child and Family Policy, titled Trends in School‐based Mental Health and Existing Barriers.

In 2002, Wendy moved to Washington D.C. to pursue school‐based mental health and participated in co‐writing a SAMHSA grant for programming evidenced‐based practices in District of Columbia Charter schools on violence prevention, bullying, school dropout prevention and resiliency factors for at‐risk youth. Following several leadership positions in Charter schools related to special education, Wendy joined the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services. Wendy is a trainer in Family Group Decision Making and Youth Family Team meetings, and also assists with special projects within the Resource Management and Utilization Division pertaining primarily to Medicaid accessibility. Wendy holds a Master of Science Degree in Art Therapy from Eastern Virginia Medical School and is a Registered, Board Certified Art Therapist. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor in the District of Columbia and a National Certified Counselor.

Honorable Judith A. Smith was appointed as an Associate Judge by President Barack Obama in June 2010. She was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Grove City, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting, with High Distinction, from The Pennsylvania State University in 1985.

Upon graduation from law school, Judge Smith clerked for the Honorable A. Franklin Burgess, Jr., Associate Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court. Following her clerkship, Judge Smith embarked on her career in public interest law. Opening her own law practice in 1993, she represented juveniles and adults in delinquency and criminal matters in the District of Columbia Superior Court. She also handled neglect and child support matters.

In 1994, Judge Smith began the first of her several positions at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), as Staff Attorney in the Juvenile Services Program. In 1996, Judge Smith became the first Special Education Attorney at PDS, assisting in growing the program to more than five special education and civil legal services attorneys. In 2001, at the request of District of Columbia Superior Court, Judge Smith planned and presented a special education law conference focused exclusively on representing children and their families involved in the court system in special education administrative hearings. In 2001, Judge Smith left PDS to become Executive Director ‐ Mediation and Compliance and then Executive Director ‐ Federal and Family Court Monitoring, in the Office of Special Education of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), working to assist the school system in complying with thousands of administrative hearing decisions and federal and family court orders on special education matters.

In 2007, she returned to the Public Defender Service (PDS) as Coordinator of its Juvenile Services Program, supervising attorneys and law clerks representing youth in aftercare revocation and disciplinary hearings at the city’s two detention centers. She was asked to chair a special project committee consisting of several leading local attorneys in D.C. to draft Attorney Practice Standards for the Court’s Special Education Panel Attorneys and to provide ongoing Continuing Legal Education training in special education, and was also appointed to the Juvenile Justice Advisory Group by Mayor Adrian Fenty. She was a Magistrate Judge in the Family Division of the District of Columbia Superior Court prior to her appointment.

Patricia Stewart, J.D., currently serves as the Chief of the Federal Major Crimes Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. She joined the United States Attorney’s Office in 1987 after graduating from the University of Connecticut and the National Law Center of the George Washington University. After graduation from law school in 1981, she was a law clerk to the Honorable James A. Belson in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and worked in private practice for five years before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney.

Ms. Stewart has served in many different sections within the United States Attorney’s Office and held positions as Deputy Chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section, Assistant Director of Professional Development, and Acting Deputy Chief and Senior Litigation Counsel in the Organized Crime and Narcotics Trafficking Section. She has been the recipient of the Evans Award for Trial Advocacy and the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Director’s Award. In 2000 she served as the Department of Justice Legal Advisor in the Czech Republic.

In her current position, she supervises attorneys who prosecute a variety of federal offenses, including human trafficking and online child exploitation cases, such as attempted enticement of minors, production, and child pornography.

Veronica A. Vaughan is a Victim Witness Program Specialist with the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia, possessing a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Masters of Social Work from Howard University. Ms. Vaughan is a licensed graduate social worker in the District of Columbia. Since joining the United States Attorney’s Office in September of 1999, she has provided advocacy and support to numerous victims and witnesses of violent crimes including sexual assault, domestic violence, homicide, human trafficking, and kidnapping. With a specialty in assisting child victims and child witnesses, Ms. Vaughan’s duties include providing crisis intervention, advocacy and supportive service referrals, assisting with court preparation, and being a supportive resource for the victim or witness and any individuals in her support system.

In May 2004, Ms. Vaughan was profiled in a Washington Post article depicting the role of victim advocates. During Crime Victims’ Rights Week in April 2007, Ms. Vaughan received a National Crime Victims’ Rights Award from the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Vaughan worked as a child protective services social worker in the District of Columbia for over five years. She has also provided training in child abuse and neglect to law enforcement, social work professionals, educators and various para‐professionals in the community.

Ruth Zitner, Psy.D., has had a private psychology practice in Washington, D.C. since December 1999. Her practice consists of individual, conjoint and family therapy with children, adolescents and adults, with a special interest in parenting, parent coordination, reunification, divorce and life transitions. She has significant expertise in attachment and bonding, child development, parent‐child relationships, trauma and parental fitness, and a special interest in anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as personality disorders.

Dr. Zitner provides clinical evaluations and specialist treatment in trauma and sexual abuse for children, adolescents and adults involved in the abuse and neglect system in Washington, D.C. She has served as an expert in both D.C. and Maryland Courts on the issues of child development, attachment, trauma, neglect and abuse, divorce and parenting of children and adolescents.

After receiving her Psy.D. in June 1993, from the California School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Zitner did her post‐doctoral training at the Wright Institute in Beverly Hills, CA. During her years in California, Dr. Zitner worked as a staff or consulting psychologist in a variety of organizations, including Childhelp USA, The United American Indian Initiative, The Downtown Women’s Center, and the United States Federal Public Defender’s Office, in Los Angeles, CA. She also worked for Catholic Charities Mother/Child Residence in Hollywood and Herbody in Beverly Hills, while maintaining a private practice in Beverly Hills. For three years, Dr. Zitner worked as a psychologist with the John’s Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Baltimore, MD.

Dr. Zitner is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Institute for Contemporary Psychology and Psychoanalysis. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, in 1986.