Members
Lucian E. Dervan (Co-Chair), Professor of Law, Belmont University College of Law, and Founding Director of the Plea Bargaining Institute
Russell Covey (Co-Chair), Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
Thea Johnson (Reporter), Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Hon. Kimberly Esmond Adams, Judge, Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia
Derwyn Bunton, Chief Legal Officer, Southern Poverty Law Center, (formerly Chief District Defender, Orleans Public Defenders)
Vanessa Edkins, Director of Quantitative Research, Gartner, Inc.; Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology
A. J. Kramer, Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia
Jenny Kim, Partner, The Gober Group
Marc Levin, Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice
Clark Neily, Senior Vice President for Legal Studies, CATO Institute
Norman L. Reimer, Global CEO, Fair Trials, (formerly Executive Director, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
Rebecca Shaeffer, Legal Director (Americas), Fair Trials
Adnan Sultan, Senior Staff Attorney, The Innocence Project
Jonathan Wroblewski, Director of the Office of Policy and Legislation, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Presentations
The speakers below gave presentations on race and the criminal justice system to the CJS Plea Bargain Task Force on September 25, 2020.