Leadership XXXVIII Bios Public Safety and the Media - February 16, 2017

Jerry Dorsey, IV Received his undergraduate degree in 1979 and his law degree in 1986 from Wayne State University. He was appointed as an Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor in March, 1989. Mr. Dorsey was appointed as the Chief of Trials and Litigation in July, 2009; Deputy Chief of the Child and Family Abuse Bureau in 2004; and Deputy Chief of the 36th District Court Division in 2001. In May, 2001 Mr. Dorsey was assigned as the Principal Attorney in Child and Family Abuse Bureau. Later that year he was transferred to the Homicide Unit as Principal Attorney.

Mr. Dorsey has lectured on child abuse investigation and domestic violence extensively. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and Prosecuting Attorney’s Association of Michigan. He serves, by appointment of the Wayne County Executive, as Chair of the Wayne County Council Against Family Violence. He is the Chair of the Wayne County Child Advocacy Center Task Force; President, Kids-Talk Advisory Board; and Member of the Board of Directors of the Guidance Center

David P. Gelios In September of 2015, Director James B. Comey named David P. Gelios as the special agent in charge of the Detroit Division. Mr. Gelios most recently served as the chief inspector of the FBI’s Inspection Division, as well as the Inspection Division’s acting deputy assistant director from June 2014 until March 2015. As the chief inspector, Mr. Gelios oversaw all FBI field office inspections, national program reviews, and agent-involved shooting investigations.

Mr. Gelios entered on duty with the FBI in 1995 and was assigned to the Sacramento Division’s Stockton Resident Agency, where he conducted investigations in all FBI investigative programs in Stockton’s jurisdiction, primarily complex financial and violent crime matters. During his tenure in the Sacramento Division, Mr. Gelios served on the evidence response team and was trained as a crisis negotiator. n October 2010, Mr. Gelios was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the New Haven Division. During his time in Connecticut, Mr. Gelios was the program manager for the criminal, national security, cyber, intelligence, and administrative programs, as well as New Haven’s critical incident management program and SWAT Team.

A native of Ohio with strong roots in Ohio and Michigan, Mr. Gelios is a graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and a former high school teacher, college coach, and outreach officer for the University of California Office of the President.

Barbara L. McQuade Barbara L. McQuade is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was appointed by President Barack Obama.

McQuade has sought to use the resources of the U.S. Attorney’s Office to improve the quality of life for the people of Michigan. Upon taking office in January 2010, McQuade restructured the office for the first time in more than 35 years to align attorney resources with the priorities of the district: national security, violent crime, public corruption, civil rights and financial fraud, including mortgage fraud, health care fraud, and environmental crimes.

Significant case accomplishments during McQuade’s tenure include the conviction of former Detroit Mayor on public corruption charges, the conviction and life sentence of an Al-Qaeda operative for attempting to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009, the conviction of a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice on mortgage fraud charges, and the convictions of former employees for stealing trade secrets from Detroit automakers. McQuade also joined with other law enforcement leaders to launch Detroit One, a violence reduction strategy and community partnership. McQuade serves on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, and serves as co-chair of the Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. She also serves on subcommittees addressing civil rights and border security.

The first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, McQuade was as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit for 12 years. She served as Deputy Chief of the National Security Unit, where she prosecuted cases involving terrorism financing, foreign agents, export violations, and threats. During her career as a federal prosecutor, McQuade has also prosecuted cases involving violent crime, fraud and racketeering.

From 2003 to 2009, McQuade served as an adjunct law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, teaching criminal law in the evenings. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, McQuade practiced law at the firm of Butzel Long in Detroit, and served as a law clerk to Hon. Bernard A. Friedman on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Born in Detroit, McQuade is a 1987 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1991 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. She and her husband have four children.

Stephen Henderson Stephen Henderson is an American journalist. Henderson won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and the 2014 National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year Award.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Henderson graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1988 and the University of Michigan in 1992.

Henderson writes for the editorial page of the Detroit Free Press, hosts the daily talk show "Detroit Today" on WDET, hosts the weekly talk show "American Black Journal" on Detroit Public Television, co-hosts the news show "MiWeek" on Detroit Public Television, and is a correspondent for WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) in Detroit.

In 2014 he won both the Pulitzer Prize for commentary and the National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year Award for his writing on Detroit's financial crisis.

Awards 1993 Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting 2001 American Society of Newspaper Editors Prize for editorial writing[3] 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary[2] 2014 National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year Award[4] 2014 Scripps Howard Award for Commentary[8]

Rochelle Riley Rochelle Riley’s award-winning columns have appeared in the Detroit Free Press and at www.freep.com since 2000. A crusader for better lives for children, she writes passionately about government responsibility, education, popular culture, politics and race. She has spent 15 years raising awareness about the need to improve adult literacy in southeast Michigan and has helped raise more than $1 million for Michigan literacy causes.

She has worked at and , covering education and children’s issues and The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. Rochelle’s honors include a National Headliner Award for best column, a national Scripps Howard award for her coverage of literacy and first-place honors from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Michigan Press Association and the Associated Press-Managing Editors.

Her columns about the fall of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick were part of the entry that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. Readers of Hour magazine just named her Detroit’s best local female columnist for the seventh year in a row. Rochelle, a strong advocate for press freedom around the world, is co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists Global Journalism Task Force and a board member of the North American Committee of the Vienna-based International Press Institute.

Rochelle is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and English. She was a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied online communities and film. And she is a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

Daniel Howes Daniel Howes is columnist and associate business editor of The Detroit News. A former European correspondent for The News, he has reported from nearly 25 countries on three continents and in the Middle East. Before heading to Europe in 1999, Howes was senior automotive writer and a business projects writer.

He is a frequent contributor to NewsTalk 760-WJR in Detroit and a weekly contributor to Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor. Howes is winner of multiple International Wheel Awards for column writing; a four-time winner of Northwestern University’s Medill award for general markets coverage; three-time winner for commentary from the Society of Business Editors and Writers; and a three-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards, including an honorable mention for commentary in 2007. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from The College of Wooster in Ohio, and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.