MENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT FACULTY ROSTER

Brent Carr Steven Leifman Edward Spillane Judge Associate Administrative Judge Presiding Judge Tarrant County Criminal Court #9 Miami-Dade County Court, 11th College Station Municipal Court [email protected] Judicial Circuit of Florida 300 Krenek Tap Road 1351 N.W. 12th St. Rm. 617 College Station, TX 77842 Ann Collins Miami, FL 33125 979.764.3683 Judge 305.548.5394 [email protected] Fort Worth Municipal Court [email protected] 1000 Throckmorton St, Patti Tobias Fort Worth, TX 76102 Consultant 817.392.6715/4060 Judge National Center for State Courts [email protected] Court of Criminal Appeals 707 17th Street, Suite 2900 | 201 W 14th St, Denver, CO 80202 Courtney Harvey Austin, TX 78701 303.308.4307 Forensic Director 512.463.1551 [email protected] Health and Human Services [email protected] Director Ryan Turner 909 W 45th Street, Bldg. 552| A.D. Paul General Counsel & Director of Austin, Texas, 78751 Sergeant Education 512.206.5237 Crisis Intervention Team Program TMCEC [email protected] Coordinator 2210 Hancock Drive Plano Police Department Austin, TX 78756 Ramey Heddins [email protected] 512.320.8274 Senior Director of Criminal Justice [email protected] MHMR Tarrant County J. Randall Price 3840 Hulen Street Price, Proctor & Associates, LLP Kristin Wade Fort Worth, TX 76107 [email protected] Judge 817.301.5102 County Court of Criminal [email protected] Gary Raney Appeals #1 Retired Sheriff Frank Crowley Courts Building, Barbara Hervey Ada County, Idaho 3rd Floor Judge 208.870.8400 Dallas, TX 75207 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals [email protected] 214.653.5705 201 W 14th St, [email protected] Austin, TX 78701 Brian Sims 512.463.1551 Senior Director of Medical and B.J. Wagner [email protected]; Behavioral Health Senior Director of Smart Justice National Association of State Meadows Mental Health Policy Erin Holmes Mental Health Program Directors Institute Director of Traffic Safety 66 Canal Center Plaza Suite. 302 2800 Swiss Avenue, Programs Alexandria, VA 22314 Dallas, TX 75204 Responsibility.org 703.682.5185 512.966.8269 202.637.0571 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

MENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

BRENT CARR

Judge Brent Carr, Tarrant County Criminal Court #9, has 30 years’ experience in criminal law. He is certified in criminal law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas. Judge Carr is certified in criminal jurisprudence by the Texas College for Judicial Studies. His legal memberships include: State Bar of Texas, Tarrant County Bar Association, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, United States Court of Appeals, and Master Member Eldon Mahon Inn of Court.

Judge Carr has received the following court and staff awards: 2010 Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Award for Judicial Excellence; 2010 National Association of Social Workers Elected Official of the Year for both North Texas and the State of Texas; 2011 Tarrant County MHMR Visions – Opening Doors Leader; 2011 Jewish War Veterans Post #755, Service to Veterans; 2011 Court Reporter Toni Freeman – Court Reporter of the Year; 2012 Court Coordinator Lori McEndree – Court Coordinator of the Year; 2013 Certificate of Appreciation for Service as Chair, Tarrant County Veterans Coalition; 2013 Certificate of Recognition for 30 year of service to Tarrant County Government; 2013 National Alliance on Mental Illness, Advocate of the Year; and 2014 Silver Gavel Award.

His community involvement includes: Veterans Coalition of Tarrant County; Mental Health Connection; Santa Fe Youth Services; Marine Corps Toys for Tots; Tarrant County Homeless Coalition; the University of Texas at Arlington Criminal Justice Advisory Committee; Habitat for Humanity; Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice – Tarrant County College; hosted over 50 Interns from University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Christian University, Tarrant County College, Tarleton State University and other educational institutions; and 14 Pen Pals.

ANN (A. Y.) COLLINS

Ann (A. Y.) Collins, a native of Fort Worth, is a graduate of the University of Houston and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.

Prior to full time employment as a municipal judge, she served as the first Family Violence Project Attorney for Legal Services of NW Texas (aka West Texas Legal Services), worked as Texas Assistant Attorney General/Senior Field Attorney, and as a Certified Hearing Examiner appointed by the Texas Education Agency.

Judge Collins was appointed a full time Municipal Court Judge/Magistrate for the City of Fort Worth in March of 2014, having served previously as a Substitute/Pro Tempore Judge/Magistrate for 12 years.

Judge Collins has previously served as Vice Chair and Secretary of the Municipal Court Judge’s Section of the State Bar of Texas. She currently serves on the State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee, State Bar of Texas Diversity in the Profession Committee, Tarrant County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee, and the Tarrant County Mayor’s Council Stakeholder’s Committee.

Judge Collins is the proud mother of one daughter, N. T. Collins M. D., a family medicine and geriatrics specialist at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth Texas.

COURTNEY HARVEY

Dr. Harvey holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (expired, active) and began her tenure with the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) as a Program Specialist V in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Division, Adult Mental Health (AMH) Services Unit, with primary focus on forensic and jail diversion services. Dr. Harvey was promoted to Crisis Services Team Lead of the AMH Services Unit where she provided consultation on crisis, forensic, and veteran’s mental health services. Later, Dr. Harvey was promoted to Manager of the Crisis Services and Client Rights Unit with oversight of crisis hotlines, mobile crisis outreach teams, contracted psychiatric beds, and psychiatric emergency services centers (as examples), psychiatric services provided to sexually violent predators, and forensic services to include outpatient competency restoration, jail-based competency restoration, and jail diversion initiatives.

In May 2017, she was asked to serve as Interim Forensic Director with duties that include statewide coordination of forensic services, coordination of programs operated by the Health and Human Services Commission relating to evaluation of forensic patients, transition of forensic patients from inpatient to outpatient or community-based services, community forensic monitoring, or forensic research and training, and addressing issues with the delivery of forensic services in the state to include significant increases in populations with serious mental illness and criminal justice system involvement (as an example). In January 2018, she was selected to serve as the Forensic Director.

In addition, she has published articles in multiple journals on various topics addressing counseling group work, understanding gender roles, multiculturalism, and providing forensic services in community mental health agencies.

RAMEY HEDDINS

Ramey Heddins currently serves as Chief of Behavioral Health Services for My Health My Resources (MHMR) of Tarrant County. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology with a minor in Psychology from Texas A&M University in 1985. Mr. Heddins is a Certified Correctional Health Care Professional through the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and is a member of the Academy of Correctional Healthcare professionals. He has 32 years of experience in the mental health field with 21 of those years supervising criminal justice programs.

BARBARA HERVEY

Judge Barbara Parker Hervey was elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in November 2000. Prior to her election, she was an Assistant District Attorney in the Appellate Section of the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office for 16 years. She is a native of New Jersey and earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1975 from The University of at Greensboro and her Juris Doctor in 1979 from St. Mary’s University School of Law. Judge Hervey has been an author and speaker for over 400 lectures & legal seminars. She has also served in various capacities throughout her tenure. She is currently a co-chair of the newly formed Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health and is an Advisor to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee and its project, “Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis.” She also is an Adviser for the American Law Institute’s Committee to Reform the Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses. In addition to those duties, Judge Hervey is the Chair of the Court’s Grant Committee, which manages $13 million per year to train judges, attorneys and their staff, and she is the founder of the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit. Formerly, she was a member of the Governor’s Ad Hoc Committee to Rewrite the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and served as a Faculty Member of the National College of District Attorneys. She also co-authored The Appellate Prosecutor: “Professional Responsibility on Appeal” and served as a Commissioner on the National Commission of Forensic Science, as a member of the Governor’s Criminal Justice Advisory Council, and as a member of the Tim Cole Advisory Panel. Judge Hervey is a member of numerous organizations, including the State Bar of Texas, the American Law Institute, the Texas Bar Foundation, the Court of Criminal Appeals’ Rules Committee, and the Court of Criminal Appeals’ Grant Committee. She was awarded the Appellate Advocacy Award from Region VI, Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation and received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Police Officers Association in recognition of work on the case of Moore v. Texas, in which Moore was tried for the Capital Murder of San Antonio Police Department Officer Fabian Dominguez.

Judge Hervey and her husband Richard Langlois reside in San Antonio, Texas. They have three children, Edward, Christopher, and Melissa.

ERIN HOLMES

Erin Holmes is the Director of Traffic Safety at the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (Responsibility.org). She is responsible for managing Responsibility.org’s traffic safety portfolio and partnerships, and is involved in the development of traffic safety and criminal justice policy. In this role, Ms. Holmes endeavors to translate research into practice and provide thought leadership on impaired driving issues. Prior to joining Responsibility.org in September of 2014, she was a Research Scientist at the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF). During her tenure at TIRF, Ms. Holmes published more than 40 reports and articles and delivered in excess of 50 presentations internationally on impaired driving, criminal justice system improvements, alcohol monitoring technologies, remedial programs, risk assessment, and drug policy. She also conducted process evaluations, developed online curricula, education programs, and primers. Ms. Holmes was involved in TIRF’s international symposia series on interlocks and served as the co-coordinator of the Working Group on DWI System Improvements, a U.S. criminal justice coalition on impaired driving. In addition, she provided NHTSA-funded training and technical assistance to jurisdictions to improve the delivery of interlock programs across the United States. She has extensive professional experience working with practitioners and offender populations.

Ms. Holmes graduated summa cum laude with an Honours degree in Criminology from the University of Ottawa. She subsequently completed a Master’s degree in Criminology from the same institution. She is currently a Junior Fellow at the Drug Policy Institute in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida. She routinely serves as National Judicial College faculty on traffic safety issues.

STEVEN LEIFMAN

Judge Steve Leifman is the Associate Administrative Judge of the Miami-Dade County Court – Criminal Division. From 2007 – 2010, Judge Leifman served as Special Advisor on Criminal Justice and Mental Health for the Supreme Court of Florida. He currently chairs the Florida Supreme Court’s Task Force on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in the Court and the Mental Health Committee for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida. In 2015, he received one of the nation’s highest judicial honors - the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. The award is presented annually to a state judge who exemplifies judicial excellence, integrity, fairness, and professional ethics. Judge Leifman is also the first recipient to receive the Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Award for Judicial Excellence (2015). He was named by New Times as one of Miami-Dade’s most interesting people of 2017 and a 2016 Governing Magazine Public Official of the Year.

Judge Leifman has been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, the Atlantic Magazine, CBS News, USA Today, CNN: Anderson Cooper Special Report, CNN: Special Investigations Unit: The Criminally Insane, NBC Nightly News, PBS: Minds on the Edge, Facing Mental Illness, NPR: All Things Considered, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal; Governing Magazine and the Samantha Bee Show on TBS. DAVID NEWELL

Judge David Newell was elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on November 4, 2014. The son of Thomas and Linda Newell, David was born at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, though he grew up in Sugar Land, Texas with his much taller, older brother, Robert Newell. David graduated cum laude from William P. Clements High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Houston. He graduated magna cum laude, earning University honors and honors in his major. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1997 before returning home to work in the Fort Bend County District Attorney's Office. He served as an appellate prosecutor for 16 years, first in Fort Bend County and later in the Harris County District Attorney's Office from 2007 until his election to the Court.

Judge Newell has twice served as the Chairman of the Editorial Board for the Texas District and County Attorney's bi-monthly journal, The Texas Prosecutor. He also co-authored a regular byline for the journal, "As the Judges Saw It," a column that analyzed and summarized the significant decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He served repeatedly on the planning committee for the Advanced Criminal Law Course for the State Bar of Texas. And he has presented the Court of Criminal Appeals Update at the Texas Conference on Criminal Appeals, the TDCAA Criminal and Civil Law Update, and the Texas State Bar's Advanced Criminal Law Course.

Judge Newell is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both criminal law and criminal appellate law. He is also licensed by the State Bar of Texas and admitted to practice before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. In 2013, David received the C. Chris Marshall Award for Distinguished Faculty from the Texas District and County Attorneys' Association. David and his beautiful wife, Shayne, currently live in the Houston area with their two sons.

A.D. PAUL

Sergeant A.D. Paul is a U.S. Air Force Veteran, earning the Air Force Commendation and Overseas Medals. He attended the Community College of the Air Force and after being honorably discharged was hired by the Plano Texas Police Department in 1986.

Sergeant Paul was promoted in 1993 and has received the Officer of the Year, Supervisor of the Year and Meritorious Award with the Plano Police Department. In 2001 Sergeant Paul’s work in the Plano Narcotics Unit was featured in a documentary movie (Addicted by PBS/KRLU) and numerous other publications, including Newsweek (Heroin High) and Texas Monthly (Teenage Wasteland) after a number of heroin related deaths of Plano Teenagers.

In 2014, Sergeant Paul was called to testify in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing (Law Enforcement Encounters with People with Disabilities). Sergeant Paul has presented on Crisis Intervention Teams at the CIT International and Downs Congress. Sergeant Paul has received the Prism Award from Mental Health of America, the Paul Brunette Award from the Dallas Police Department and the Angel Award from the National Autism Association of North Texas.

Sergeant Paul has served on the board of directors of NAMI Collin County and committees with the Texas CIT Association and Collin County Mental Health Symposium. Sergeant Paul holds a Master Police Certificate from TCOLE and currently serves in the School Resource Program and coordinates the Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) Program.

J. RANDALL PRICE

J. Randall Price, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in Texas and Oklahoma. Dr. Price is board certified in forensic psychology and neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and has practiced in the Dallas area since 1983 with Price, Proctor & Associates, LLP. Dr. Price is also a fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, the American College of Professional Neuropsychology, and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Dr. Price also serves as a professor at Richland College and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and is a lecturer at the Dedman School of Law.

Dr. Price graduated from the University of North Texas with a B.S. in 1970, an M.S. in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1982. He later held and internship with the Baylor Institute of Rehabilitation at the Baylor University Medical Center and a post-doctoral fellowship with the University of Kentucky.

GARY RANEY

Sheriff Gary Raney retired from the Ada County Sheriff’s Office in Boise, Idaho after serving for more than thirty years, the last ten as the elected sheriff. He became nationally known for utilizing data and research, establishing innovative practices and creating a positive organizational culture in the agency, leading him to host for many other agencies who sought to adopt similar practices.

Currently, Mr. Raney is the President of GAR, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in helping law enforcement agencies improve their practices and reduce their liability, especially in the use of force and constitutional compliance. He is also sought after for his organizational development consulting, mostly focused on culture and leadership development.

Mr. Raney earned a bachelor’s degree, and later a master’s degree, from Boise State University. He also has graduated from several of the most highly regarded law enforcement leadership programs in the country and he remains active in learning and helping others through his involvement in the National Institute of Corrections, the Pretrial Justice Institute, the National Sheriff's Association, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the American Jail Association and the Police Executive Research Forum.

BRIAN SIMS

Brian R. Sims, M.D., is the Senior Director of Medical and Behavioral Health for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. He is also a Senior Consultant for the National Center for Trauma Informed Care (NCTIC) where he provides lectures and trainings both nationally and internationally on the practice of Trauma–Informed Care and the neurobiology of trauma. These trainings have occurred in multiple settings across the country, including hospitals, behavioral health settings, schools, corrections, primary care settings, the military and many others. Most recently, he has been the lead consultant for Trauma Informed Care in the Faith Based community regionally across the country.

Dr. Sims is a former staff psychiatrist with Correctional Mental Health Services, an organization serving the mental health needs of inmates in 60 detention centers in 10 states, where he was responsible for the provision of care for more than 3,000 inmates. Before joining Correctional Mental Health Care Services, he was the Senior Director for Behavioral and Mental Health for Conmed Healthcare Management where he was responsible for the development of core strategic planning for the company’s correctional mental health provisions in eight states. Prior to his work with Conmed, Dr. Sims served with the State mental health system for 25 years and maintained a private practice for 10 years. Dr. Sims also previously served in the U.S. Army Reserve at Walter Reed working with soldiers with PTSD.

EDWARD SPILLANE

Edward Spillane is the Presiding Municipal Judge for College Station since May 2002. Prior to taking that position, he served as an Assistant District Attorney for Brazos County for eight years and as an associate for the law firm Fulbright and Jaworski for two years. Judge Spillane received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his law degree from the University of Chicago. He is the Past President of the Texas Municipal Courts Association and represents Texas Municipal Courts on the Judicial Conduct Commission.

PATTI TOBIAS

Patricia Tobias is a Principal Court Management Consultant at the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). Ms. Tobias has experience working in a wide variety of national, state, and local projects including those involving leadership and governance, organizational assessment, caseflow management, criminal justice reform, and workflow. She has previously worked with TMCEC on two recent projects and currently serves as the educational consultant to the National Association for Court Management.

Prior to joining the NCSC, Ms. Tobias served as Administrative Director of the Idaho Courts for 22 years. In that capacity, she served for more than ten years on the Idaho Criminal Justice Commission, and continues to serve on the Idaho Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) steering committee charged with managing the implementation of the state’s recently enacted JRI legislation.

Ms. Tobias previously served as the Clerk of the Court, St. Louis County, Missouri (1986-1993); Director of Court Services Division, Office of the State Courts Administrator, Missouri Supreme Court (1980- 1986); and Adult and Juvenile Probation Services, Champaign County Circuit Court, Illinois (1976- 1979). Ms. Tobias served as President of the Conference of State Court Administrators and as Vice-Chair of the NCSC’s Board of Directors (2002-2003) and on the Council of State Governments’ Justice Center Board of Directors (2009-2011). She received the NCSC’s Warren E. Burger Award for Administrative Excellence, 2012; the Robert L. Doss, Jr., Memorial Scholarship, 2011; the Justice Management Institute’s Ernest C. Friesen Award of Excellence, 2008; the Idaho State Bar’s Award of Distinction, 2003; the Public Policy Leadership Award, 2003; and the Kramer Award for Excellence in Judicial Administration, 2001.

RYAN KELLUS TURNER

Ryan Kellus Turner is General Counsel and Director of Education for the Texas Municipal Courts Education Center. Prior to joining the Center in 1999, he served as Briefing Attorney for Judge at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Mr. Turner obtained his juris doctorate from Southern Methodist University School of Law. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with highest honors from St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, where he now teaches as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences. In 2004 and 2013, he was the recipient of the School’s Adjunct Teaching Excellence Award and a finalist for the University Adjunct Teaching Excellence Award in 2014.

Mr. Turner previously served as a Special Assistant County Attorney for Kendall County. He is currently Deputy City Attorney for the City of Dripping Springs and also serves as a Substitute Associate Judge on the Austin Municipal Court.

In 2011, he was an advisory member on the Texas Judicial Council’s Juvenile Justice Committee. In 2012, Mr. Turner was named Co-Chair of the Texas Judicial Council Legislative Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He is current an advisory member on the Texas Judicial Council’s Pretrial Justice Committee.

A native Texan, Mr. Turner was raised in the north Texas town of Vernon. He is the co-author of the books Lone Star Justice: A Comprehensive Overview of the Texas Criminal Justice System and The Municipal Judges Book.

KRISTIN WADE

Kristin Wade is the Judge of the County Criminal Court of Appeals Number One. She is in her 20th year and her fifth term as Judge of this court, which is a county-wide criminal court that hears class A and B misdemeanors, as well as appeals from the Justice of the Peace and Municipal Courts. Judge Wade is a native Texan who graduated from Trinity University in 1984 and SMU Law School in 1988. After law school Judge Wade served as an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas and Georgetown. In 1996, Judge Wade conceived, planned and spearheaded the construction of the Victim’s Waiting Room in The Frank Crowley Courts Building.

Judge Wade currently operates two successful and progressive mental health jail diversion programs whose aim is to get mentally ill inmates out of jail and into services in the community. She is past Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the State Bar of Texas, former planning vice-president for the Junior League of Dallas, and former board member of Mental Health America of Greater Dallas. She has received the Mental Health of America Prism Award in recognition of her efforts in the field of mental illness as well as the NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illness) special recognition award. Judge Wade currently chairs the Behavioral Health Steering Committee at the Frank Crowley Courts building, is elected to the County-wide Behavioral Health Leadership team, and also sits on the 530 committee which helps allocate funds to the various specialty courts at the Frank Crowley Courts building. In addition, Judge Wade oversees outpatient competency restoration for misdemeanor cases at Frank Crowley, and presides over the public defender’s mental health conditional dismissal program.

B.J. WAGNER

B. J. Wagner joined the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute in the Fall of 2015 as Director of Smart Justice. In her role with MMHPI she will lead the Institute’s Smart Justice work assisting communities across Texas transform systems to increase prevention and intervention services and reduce justice involvement for special populations.

Ms. Wagner began her career in law enforcement as a county jailer and later as a law enforcement officer in North East and Western Texas. In response to the increasing number of contacts with persons with mental illness she experienced as a law enforcement officer she chose to return to graduate school and completed studies in clinical neuropsychology and counseling psychology at Texas A&M and began working in community mental health clinics. She continued consulting with the field of law enforcement on best practices as she provided services to clientele through local mental health authorities. Ms. Wagner has developed curriculum for disciplines across the criminal justice system on mental health awareness, symptom recognition and verbal de-escalation techniques.

Ms. Wagner joined the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in 2008 where she developed front end diversion and continuity of care systems for offenders with special care needs and guided Medicaid implementation for limited populations within the State’s prison systems. While at TDCJ, she worked closely with the Department of State Health Services to redesign the uniform intake assessment to include criminogenic risk factors to ensure all persons being assessed in the public mental health system also had criminogenic needs addressed. In 2015, after serving as Deputy Director for the Reentry and Integration Division at TDCJ, Ms. Wagner joined the Texas Veterans Commission during the regular legislative session. She worked closely with governmental relations analyzing proposed legislation and advising on emerging trends and state and local initiatives to address the needs of trauma affected veterans at risk of justice involvement.

Ms. Wagner received recognition from the Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Council for contributions to elevating awareness of prevention and care needs for Texans living with brain injury.