Other Defender Centers
The Pacific Juvenile Defender Center is one of nine regional Juvenile Defender Centers affiliated with the National Juvenile Defender Center. Each Center coordinates regional activities, including compiling and analyzing indigent defense data, facilitating and organizing networking opportunities for juvenile defenders, offering targeted state-based training and technical assistance, and providing case support specifically designed for complex or high profile cases.
Contact Information
National Juvenile Defender Center
Patti Puritz, Executive Director
Mary Ann Scali, Deputy Director
National Juvenile Defender Center
1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 304
Washington, DC 20036
202.452.0010 (phone)/202.452.1205 (fax)
inquiries@njdc.info
Central Juvenile Defender Center
Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee
Kim Brooks Tandy
Children’s Law Center
104 East Seventh Street, 2nd Floor
Covington, KY 41011
(859) 431-3313 (phone) / (859) 655-7553 (fax)
kimbrooks@fuse.net
Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center
District of Columbia, Maryland, Puerto Rico, Virginia, and West Virginia
Melissa Goemann
Children’s Law Center
University of Richmond School of Law
28 West Hampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
(804) 287-6468 (phone) / (804) 287-6489 (fax)
mgoemann@richmond.edu
Kris Henning
Georgetown University Law Center
Juvenile Justice Clinic
111 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 662-9592 (phone) / (202) 662-4244 (fax)
henningk@law.georgetown.edu
Midwest Juvenile Defender Center
Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
Betsy Clarke
Illinois Juvenile Justice Initiative
PO Box 1833
Evanston, IL 60204
(847) 864-1567 (phone) / (847) 570-0749 (fax)
bcjuv@aol.com
Elizabeth Kooy
Juvenile Justice Initiative
413 West Monroe
Springfield, IL 62704
(773) 316-7327 (phone) / (866) 854-6812 (fax)
eakooy@hotmail.com
Eileen Hirsch
Wisconsin State Public Defender Office
17 South Fairchild Street
3rd Floor
Madison, WI 53707
(608) 264-8566 (phone) / (608) 264-8563 (fax)
hirsche@opd.wi.gov
New England Juvenile Defender Center
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont
Bob Sheil
Office of the Defender General
6 Baldwin Street, 4th Floor
Montpelier, VT 05633-3301
(802) 828-3168 (phone) / (802) 828-3163 (fax)
Bob.Sheil@state.vt.us
Northeast Juvenile Defender Center
Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
Laura Cohen
Clinical Law Professor, Rutgers Law School
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 353-3187 (phone) / (973) 353-3397 (fax)
lcohen@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Robert Listenbee
The Defender Association of Philadelphia, Juvenile Unit
1441 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 568-3190 (phone) / (267) 765-6994 (fax)
rlistenbee@philadefender.org
Sandra Simkins
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Rutgers-Camden School of Law
217 North 5th Street
Room 605
Camden, NJ 08102
(856) 225-6646 (phone)
ssimkins@camden.rutgers.edu
Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
California & Hawaii
Patti Lee
San Francisco Public Defender’s Office
Juvenile Justice Center
258A Laguna Honda Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94116
(415) 753-8176 (phone) / (415) 566-3030 (fax)
patricia.lee@sfgov.org
Carolyn Brown
Office of the Public Defender, Hawaii
1130 North Nimitz Freeway, Suite A-254
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 383-8418 (phone) / (808) 586-2222 (fax)
carolyn.j.brown@hawaii.gov
Jonathan Laba
Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office
800 Ferry Street
Martinez, CA 94553
(925) 335-8081 (phone)
jlaba@pd.cccounty.us
Southern Juvenile Defender Center
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina
Marion Chartoff
Southern Poverty Law Center
PO Box 2087
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
(334) 956-8200 (phone) / (334) 956-8481 (fax)
marion.chartoff@splcenter.org
Southwest Juvenile Defender Center
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah
Malikah Marrus
University of Houston Law Center
100 Law Center
Houston, Texas 77204-6049
(713) 743-0894 (phone) / (713) 743-2238 (fax)
mmarrus@uh.edu
Michael Lindsey
Nester Consultants, Incorporated
PO Box 110759
Carrollton, TX 75011
(972) 416-6656 (phone) / (972) 416-8315 (fax)
mllind@swbell.net
Ellen Marrus
University of Houston Law Center
100 Law Center
Houston, Texas 77204-6049
(713) 743-0894 (phone) / (713) 743-2238 (fax)
emarrus@uh.edu
Western Juvenile Defender Center
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming
Susan Roske
Clark County Public Defender’s Office
601 North Pecos Road
Las Vegas, NV 89101
(702) 455-4685 (phone) / (702) 455-5112 (fax)
roskesd@co.clark.nv.us
Mary Berkheiser
William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Box 451003
Las Vegas, NV 89154-1003
(702) 895-2402 (phone) / (702) 895-208 (fax)
berkheiser@law.unlv.edu