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H~on. Bernice B. Donald, a judge on the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, is the 2015-2016
chair of the ABA Criminal justice Serctio n. judge Donald
sat on the U'S District Court for the Weistern District of
Tennessee. She has served as judge of U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the WNestern District of Tennessee, becoming
the first A frican American wxoman in US history to serv e
as a bankruptcy judge. In 1982, she was elected to the
General Sessions Criminal Court, where she became the
first African American woman to serve as a judge in the
history of the State of 'Tennessee.
The ABA Criminal justice Section acknowledged the
phenoimenal leadership of James E. Fehnan and Cynthia
Orr, CIS outgoing chairs, in Auguist 1 in Chicago, d uring
the 2015 Annual Meeting. As the first co-chairs in the
history of the Section, Felman and Orr took on double
the workload. From steerina the woruk of the Task Force
on dhe Ref win of Federal Sentencing for E~cono mic Crimes
and spearheading the Section's involvement in the
development of the Impolicit Bias Bench Book as well as
thc Clemency Protect 20114 to the establishment of the
Task Forcc on Law Enforccment Body Camera, Felman
and Orr ]ed the Crimrinal Justice Sectiont through a year
fill of accomplishments. T ogetrher they ushered in the
inaugural Raeder-Taslitz Award, and championed the
Prosecution and Defense Function Standards.
Task Force on Law Enforcement
Body Carnera
In response to the growing need to address the use of
body cameras by law enforcement, the A~BA Criminal justice
Section anno unced the creatio n of a new Task Force orn
Law En f rcement Body Camera, during the Annual Mleeting
in Chicago. See more at http://tiny'ur.c om/'paefnxq.
CJS Resolutions Adopted as ABA Policy
The ABA Ho-iuse of Delegates adopted Criminal justice
Section-sponsored resolution #1I08 A, which adopts the
black letter of the AR4I St~anrdrfo Criminal Tustice: Mionitory,
and # 108 B, which urges Congress to restore Peil Girant
eligibility for prisoners. Bhi were adopted as ABA policy
during the ABA Annual Meeting on August 3 in Chicago.
IN THIS ISSUE
Practice Tips:
Obtaining the Best Character Letters
for Sentencing in Federal Court
immigration is Not the Cause
of Violent Crime
Using Social Media Analysis to
Conduct Third Party investigations
The 2015-16 ABA CJS Chair Judge Bernice Donald, left, with
out-going Chairs Cvnthia Orr and James E. Felman, at the
ABA/CJS Annual Meeting in Chicago. August 1, 2015.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.aba/cjsnw0024&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)