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Board Biographies
Responsibilities also include implementing major policies and decisions relating to the court, directing research and the preparation of detailed reports and memoranda, as well as supervising and/or staffing various committees relating to the Judiciary. Mr. Del Preore has been in the field of both court and corrections administration for over thirty years. During this period, he has maintained executive level positions in both court administration and the probation service. Additionally, Mr. Del Preore has served on numerous judicial and legislative subcommittees, planning groups and advisory boards. He is a certified trainer and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Seton Hall Law School, two county colleges, the New Jersey State Police Academy, several county police academies and the New Jersey State Administrative Office of the Courts Training and Organizational Development Unit. Mr. Del Preore completed his undergraduate education at Rutgers University and a Master's degree program in Public Administration at Kean University. He has completed the Court Executive Development Program of the National Center for State Courts' Institute for Court Management and is certified as a Fellow. Mr. Del Preore has published several articles in the area of volunteer management. He was a contributing author to the American Correctional Associations treatise on the use of intermediate sanctions. Most recently, he contributed to Washington D.C.’s Center for Community Corrections series on creating the “Community Connection.” He has delivered training programs on visionary leadership, executive decision-making, staff motivation and customer service in a government setting. For his outstanding achievements in the field, he has been recognized in Who’s Who in the East and Who’s Who in Law Enforcement. He has also served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Association For Court Management and was recently designated to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Court Management in the capacity of Urban Court Director.
His work in the judicial system spans 27 years with time spent as a court manager, an attorney, a judicial educator and a court consultant, including service in western Africa as Deputy Chief of Party for the Nigeria Justice Sector Assistance Project. Mr. Bowling also served in a variety of positions with the Michigan Supreme Court for 20 years, including as the State Judicial Educator and as a Regional Court Administrator. Other Michigan service included Staff Administrator for the Legislative Commission on Courts (a joint Commission of the Michigan House and Senate Judiciary Committees). Additional Court experience includes internships with the Denver Juvenile Court and the North Dakota Supreme Court. Mr. Bowling received his B.A. in Political Science/Public Administration from Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island; a M.S. in Judicial Administration from the University of Denver College of Law; and a J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the National Association of State Judicial Educators, the American Judicature Society, and the Ottawa County Bar Association. Mr. Bowling has served on the Board of Directors, National Association of State Judicial Educators; the Advisory Board of the Leadership Institute in Judicial Education, University of Memphis; the Advisory Board, National Judicial College - Courage to Live Program; and the Technology Law Advisory Board, Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Bowling is also a trained mediator and serves on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa/Allegan Center for Dispute Resolution. In addition to his service on the NACM Board of Directors as the General Jurisdiction Director, he is the Vice President of the Michigan Association of Circuit Court Administrators. 
Vice PresidentPamela Q. Harris Pamela Q. Harris has held the Court Administrator position for the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland since 1989. Montgomery County is located directly north of Washington, D.C. and is the most populous jurisdiction in Maryland. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management and currently serves as Member of the Maryland Conference of Circuit Court Judges; Member of the Maryland Technology Oversight Board; Member of the Maryland Integrated Statewide Case Management Committee; and Member of the Montgomery Miracles Board. She is active internationally with rule of law initiatives and currently serves on the Board of the Russian American Rule of Law Consortium (RAROLC); the Board of the Maryland International Coordinating Council, Inc., (MICCI); and as Co-Chair of the Maryland-Leningrad Steering Committee. She also serves on the Maryland Sister States Program Legal Affairs Committee. She serves as an Officer on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Court Managers (NACM) currently as Vice President. She also serves as the NACM representative on a steering committee to revise the Conference of State Court Administrator’s (COSCA) Delay Reduction Standards, the steering committee on the Forum on the Advancement of Court Technology (FACT), and the Conference Development and Planning Committees. She previously served as Chair of the Code of Conduct Committee, Chair of the Membership Committee and served on the NACM on the Professional Development Advisory Committee (PDAC) which developed the Core Competencies and Curriculum Guidelines, Publications Committee, and Joint International Committee. She is also a member of the Urban Court Manager’s Network. She has held executive board positions in the Mid-Atlantic Association of Court Management (MAACM), an organization committed to the fair and effective administration of justice through improved management of courts. She also has worked extensively in the field of differentiated case management and court administration both nationally and internationally.
David earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Texas Tech University and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Troy University. He is a 2007 Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Court Management, where he was chosen to deliver the commencement address on behalf of his class in the United States Supreme Court. David received the 2008 Distinguished Service Award from the National Center for State Courts. David has published an article entitled An Analysis of the Effective Use of Jurors in Lubbock County and was instrumental in the publication of the 2007 version of the National Association for Court Management’s Model Code of Conduct. He currently serves as the Urban Court Director on the National Association for Court Management’s Board of Directors and as the Secretary on the Board of Directors for the Texas Association for Drug Court Professionals. In addition to the aforementioned organizations, David is a member of the Texas Association for Court Administration, the National Association for Drug Court Professionals, and the American Judicature Society. 
Past PresidentSuzanne H. Stinson Suzanne H. Stinson is Court Administrator for the 26th Judicial District Court of Bossier and Webster Parishes in Benton, Louisiana, where she has been employed since 1982. Suzanne graduated magna cum laude from Louisiana Tech University and has a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Arts degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University. She is a 2007 Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Court Management of the National Center for State Courts. She served in the Louisiana Army National Guard from 1979 to 1982. She is past president of the Louisiana Court Administrators Association and is a member of the American Judicature Society, National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Forum for Advancement of Court Technology, Bossier Restoration Foundation, Bossier City Mayor’s Commission for Women, Junior League of Shreveport/Bossier City, and past president of the Rotary Club of Benton. She also currently serves on the National Court Reporters Association Judicial Advocacy Taskforce and is on the Board of Directors for the Red River Marine Institute. Suzanne was appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court to serve on the State Court Rules Committee, Advisory Committee to the Performance Audit on Jury Practices, Disaster Recovery Planning Committee and the Louisiana Integrated Juvenile Justice Information System Committee. She also serves on committees for the Shreveport/Bossier Domestic Violence Taskforce, Bossier Parish Teen Court, Bossier Parish Truancy Assessment Center, and the Coalition for Juvenile Justice. 
Large Court Director (2009-2012)William Simmons William (Will) Simmons is the District Court Administrator for the Sixth Judicial Administrative District, State of Georgia. The District is comprised of 14 counties and 19 Superior Court judges in West Central Georgia. Prior to his appointment to the Sixth District, he served as the Superior and State Court Administrator for the Clayton Judicial Circuit, and as Law Library Director for the Cobb County Superior Court. Mr. Simmons is the current President of the Georgia Council of Court Administrators. In 2007, he was selected to 40 Under 40, Georgia's Best and Brightest by the Georgia Trend's Business and Politics Magazine. He is the Associate Dean for the Evening Program at Bauder College, where he has served as an adjunct faculty member since 2007. Mr. Simmons serves on several boards, committees, and planning groups in both the judiciary and private sector. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his contributions to those organizations. Mr. Simmons has been a member of NACM since 2003. 
Small Court Director (2009-2012)Stephanie Hess Stephanie Hess is the Manager of the Case Management Section of the Supreme Court of Ohio, where she provides caseflow management support to courts of all jurisdiction types throughout the state of Ohio, which includes 719 judges in 382 courts. Ms. Hess also oversees the reporting and analysis of caseload statistical data and conducts caseflow management reviews and training for judges and court staff. Prior to joining the Supreme Court in 2006, Ms. Hess worked for the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, General Trial Division as a bailiff for 7 years and as the Director of Human Resources and Training for over 3 years. Ms. Hess has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Professional Writing from Capital University and a Juris Doctorate from the Capital University Law School, both in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. Hess is licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio as well as the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio. She is currently a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the National Association for Court Management, the Ohio Association for Court Administration, the Ohio Association of Municipal / County Court Clerks and the Ohio Jury Management Association. Ms. Hess also serves as a faculty member for the National Center for State Court’s Institute for Court Management (ICM), and teaches Caseflow Management and CourTools for ICM’s Court Management Program in Ohio. Additionally, Ms. Hess serves as faculty for various Supreme Court of Ohio Judicial College courses including orientation for new judges as well as courses for administrative judges and court administrators. Elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association for Court Management as the Small Court Director in 2009, Ms. Hess has served on the membership, conference development, and planning committees. She is currently the chairperson of the 2010 Justice Achievement Award subcommittee. 
Appointed Director (2008-2011)Peter Coolsen James Peter Coolsen, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and an M.S.W. from New York University, serves as Court Administrator for the Criminal Division, Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago, Illinois. Peter is co-editor of Court Express and serves as chair of the NACM publications committee and is a member of the conference planning committee. He is a graduate of the Court Executive Development Program, a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management, National Center for State Courts and the 2007 recipient of the Institute for Court Management’s Vice President’s Award of Merit for Applied Research. 
Clerk of Court (2010-2013)Duane Delaney Duane B. Delaney is the Clerk of the Court for the District of Columbia Superior Court. He has been employed by the District of Columbia Superior Court for 30 years and has served as the appointed Clerk of the Court for 16 years. As the Clerk of the Court, he is responsible for the daily operation of all divisions. The D.C. Superior Court is a general jurisdiction, urban court with over 800 employees and 112 Judges. Duane received his Juris Doctor Degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1989 and a Master of Science Degree in the Administration of Justice with a concentration in Judicial Administration from American University in 1979. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Duane previously served on the NACM Board of Directors from 1999 to 2002. He currently serves on the Urban Court Managers Network and has been the Chair of the NACM Award of Merit Subcommittee since 2007. He has previously served as Chair of the Publication Committee and Host Committee in addition to serving multiple terms on the Membership Committee, Nominations Committee, Welcoming Committee and as NACM’s representative on the National Center for State Court’s Research Advisory Committee. 
Urban Director (2010-2013)Raymond L. Billotte Raymond L. Billotte is the District Court Administrator for the 5th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, (County of Allegheny), located in Pittsburgh. As the second largest trial court in Pennsylvania, the 5th Judicial District is comprised of more than 100 judges and judicial officers, 1,200 employees, and serves a population of approximately 1.2 million citizens. Mr. Billotte was appointed in 1996 after serving as the Deputy Court Administrator from 1992-1996. Previously, he was employed by the 46th Judicial District of Pennsylvania as a Probation/Parole Officer (1984–1986) and District Court Administrator (1986–1992). Mr. Billotte holds a Masters Degree of Public Management from Carnegie-Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and is a 1991 Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Court Management’s Court Executive Development Program. He has served as a consultant with USAID addressing criminal justice reforms in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chihuahua, testified before the Pennsylvania Senate regarding jury reforms, and has served on numerous Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Pennsylvania Association of Court Management committees addressing the use of technology in the courts, preservation and transcription of court records, professional development of court managers, and juror diversity. Mr. Billotte has been acknowledged by local public and private organizations for his work on improving access to justice, efficiency of court operations, jury service, and court/community collaboration. Elected to the National Association for Court Management (NACM) Board in 2010 as the Urban Court Director, he also remains active in numerous court management organizations including the Urban Court Managers Network (UCMN), the National Conference of Metropolitan Courts (NCMC), the Pennsylvania Association of Court Management (PACM), and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Court Management (MAACM). 
Rural Director (2007-2010)Kelly C. Steele Kelly C. Steele is the Policy Fiscal Analyst for the Administrative Office of the Courts of Georgia where she has been employed since 2005.
General Jurisdiction Director (2008-2011)Michele Oken Michele Oken is a court administrator for the Interpreter Services Division, Los Angeles Superior Court, State of California. For the past two years, she has been responsible for overseeing the assignment and supervision of 400 court interpreters in more than 100 languages in 44 court locations. Prior to this assignment, she was a managing court reporter, assisting in the management of approximately 650 court reporters. Michele spent 22 years as an official court reporter for both municipal and superior courts in Los Angeles and was a board member and officer of local and state court reporting associations. She has been a member of the National Court Reporters Association since 1978.
Phillip Knox Phillip Knox is the General Jurisdiction Courts Administrator for the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County. In this position he is responsible for the operations of the court, including areas of civil, criminal, family, juvenile, probate/ mental health as well as the regional court locations. Mr. Knox assumed his most recent duties in April of 2007. Previously he spent four years as the Deputy Court Administrator, and six years as the Family Court Administrator. Prior to his assignment in Family Court he worked as a general court operations administrator for the Superior Court; deputy court administrator in the Maricopa County Justice Courts; Pretrial Director in Yuma County, Arizona; and as a supervisor with the Pretrial Services program in Harris County, (Houston) Texas. He is faculty for the National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, VA and for the Arizona Courts ICM training program. Phil has served as consultant to the California AOC while assisting with the Unified Courts for Families Project in that state. Mr. Knox attended law school in Texas and holds master’s degrees in public administration and criminal justice management. He is a graduate Fellow of the National Center for State Courts, Institute for Court Management (May 2000). He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Child Advocates Inc. Speakers Bureau Appreciation Award, the Arizona Family Support Council President’s Award, and the National Center for State Courts Director’s Award of Merit for Applied Research for his study: Internal and External Barriers to the Implementation of an Integrated Family Court: A Look at Family Courts that Work. Phil has served on the NACM Planning Committee and was recently elected as a director to the NACM Board.
At Large Director (2009-2012)Paul DeLosh Paul F. DeLosh has held the Director of the Department of Judicial Services position for the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia since 2004. He first came to Court in 1991 where he served in the Department of Information Technology as well as the Department of Technical Assistance. The Department of Judicial Services (DJS) serves as the liaison between the Judiciary’s administrative offices and the courts throughout Virginia, providing administrative services through publications, trainings, field visits, and the research and support of various programs. The Department serves 320 courts, 300 certified mediators, 100 certified interpreters and over 400 magistrates within the Commonwealth of Virginia through its seven divisions: Circuit Court Services, General District Court Services, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Services, Dispute Resolution Services, Drug Treatment Court Services, Foreign Language Services and Magistrate Services. Paul attended Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and a Masters of Science in Leadership. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Court Managers (NACM) as one of their At Large Directors as well as member of the Planning, Membership and Conference Development committees. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Mid-Atlantic Association for Court Management (MAACM) and holds the position of Co-chair of their Communications Committee. |
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