NCJFCJ OFFICER CANDIDATES 

 

SECRETARY – JUDGE BARBARA MACK 

 

TREASURER – JUDGE EGAN WALKER 

 

PRESIDENT‐ELECT – JUDGE WARNER KENNON 

JUDGE DAN MICHAEL 

   

 

 

 

 

SECRETARY CANDIDATE MATERIALS 

JUDGE BARBARA MACK 

   

Barbara A. Mack 6222 Palatine Ave N.

Seattle, WA 98103

April 28, 2019 The Honorable John Romero President NCJFCJ P.O Box 8970 Reno, NV 89507 Dear Judge Romero,

I am pleased to submit my application to serve as board secretary of NCJFCJ. I

hope to be appointed to serve a second term on the board in July. My resume is

attached. As you know, I retired from the bench in January. I loved being a judge, but

wanted to expand my work on policy issues related to children and families. Being part

of the leadership of NCJFCJ will allow me to do more to support the organization and

the good work we do on behalf of the people we serve, and to work on increasing

membership and improving sustainability in meaningful and lasting ways.

Being part of this board has been a privilege, providing opportunities to grow, to

train others, and to form relationships and friendships with judges around the country. I

have learned much from those colleagues. I would like to work to continue and expand

NCJFCJ’s leadership and collaboration around the country, and to build membership

and sustainability.

I appreciate your consideration of my application, and the possibility of being able

to be part of NCJFCJ’s leadership team.

With thanks,

Barbara Mack

Resumé Barbara A. Mack, Judge (ret.) 6222 Palatine Ave. N.

Seattle, WA 98103 206-276-2711

Judge Mack has devoted her entire working career to public service in both government

and the nonprofit sector. She received her B.A. from Boston University. In 1972 she co-founded the

Environmental Policy Center, a national environmental organization based in Washington, D.C. where she was director of oil, gas, and energy programs. She managed the Center's legislative work and research on oil and gas development, deep water ports, tanker safety, energy facility siting and coastal zone management. She drafted legislation, testified before congress, and organized grassroots coalitions.

In 1972-73, she taught seminars on environmental and energy issues at Harvard’s JFK

Institute of Politics. In 1981 she taught a seminar at the Institute for Policy Studies on Natural Resources and Social Justice.

She was appointed Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior in the Carter Administration, where she served under Secretary Cecil Andrus. There, she initiated the first negotiations in the 50-year history of Nevada water rights litigation, and coordinated a Presidential Task Force on policies toward the U.S. Territories, the first comprehensive inter-agency examination of territorial programs and responsibilities. She represented the Department at congressional hearings and as a speaker before such groups as the Natural Resources Section of the American Bar Association, the International Association of Petroleum Engineers, the International Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts, and the Urban League of Denver. Judge Mack has given guest lectures at Yale Divinity School (on natural resources and social justice), University of Wyoming (on the role of science in federal decision-making), Stanford University School of Business (on corporate responsibility at a symposium on Corporations and the Environment, 1980 - published), and Princeton University, among others. Following graduation from the University of Washington Law School in 1986, she began her legal career as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in King County, Washington. During more than 20 years as a prosecutor, she tried nearly every type of case, from misdemeanors to sex crimes, domestic violence, and aggravated murder. She spent more than 11 years in the Fraud Division, investigating and prosecuting complex organized criminal activity and complex civil forfeitures. She has briefed and argued multiple appeals before the Court of Appeals and the Washington Supreme Court. She wrote an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Double Jeopardy on behalf of Washington's 39 counties, and authored a Seattle University Law Review article on the same subject. She also worked in Drug Diversion Court, a program that offers nonviolent offenders rigorous treatment as an alternative to incarceration for drug crimes and property crimes motivated by addiction.

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Before becoming a judge, Judge Mack also worked with nonprofit organizations devoted to helping children. She served on and chaired the board of Children’s Trust Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect, and served on and chaired the board of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children.

JUDICIAL WORK

Judge Mack was elected to the King County Superior Court, Washington’s court of

general jurisdiction, in 2008. She has presided over felony criminal trials and a wide range of civil cases including construction, contract, medical malpractice, personal injury, complex commercial cases, and family law cases.

While serving on Juvenile Court for 4 years, Judge Mack convened, and for 5 years

chaired the King County Task Force on Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC). The mission of the Task Force is to ensure the safety and support of CSEC and to prevent further exploitation. With broad community partnerships and support, the Task Force trains those who may come in contact with exploited children to recognize and identify them. It ensures that each child has access to an advocate. It provides and coordinates trauma-responsive services specific to each child through multidisciplinary teams where appropriate, and provides continuing training to and communication among community partners. The Task Force, with its partners, also collects and evaluates data and outcomes in order to establish best practices. The Task Force, together with some of its partners, applied for, received, and manages a five-year federal grant to provide outreach and services to CSEC who have had contact with the child welfare system, and to evaluate outcomes in order to establish best practices.

Judge Mack regularly presents on judicial issues related to trauma, child sex trafficking,

and ethics. Those presentations (in addition to the NCJFCJ presentations below) have included the following: National Judicial College, National Association of Women Judges (human trafficking ethics issues), Oregon Juvenile Judges, Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law Conference, Washington Court Administrators, and she has testified before her county council and state legislative committees on juvenile justice issues.

In 2017 Judge Mack received the Washington Women Lawyers Vanguard Award.

WASHINGTON SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES ASSOCIATION

Judge Mack serves on the Washington Superior Court Judges Association (SCJA) Family and Juvenile Law Committee (FJLC), and the FJLC Legislative Committee. In 2016 she was involved in seeking and achieving passage of juvenile offender mental health legislation. She serves on the steering committee of the Court Improvement Program (CIP), having been appointed by the Washington Supreme Court’s Chief Justice. On behalf of the State CIP she attended the White House Convening on Child Sex Trafficking in 2015. She has also served on the SCJA Ethics Committee, among others. She has presented on the issues of trauma and child sex trafficking at 2 statewide SCJA conferences.

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NCJFCJ SERVICE

Judge Mack is completing her first term on the board of the NCJFCJ. She has been involved in NCJFCJ's Legislative Committee since 2014, participating in Days on the Hill for several years. Last year she chaired the Governance Committee, and she is currently vice chair of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee. She attends the CJJ and annual meetings regularly, as she has since before her board appointment. She has been on the faculty of several National Judicial Institutes on Domestic Child Sex Trafficking, in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and participated in the NCJFCJ’s DCST Court-Based Implementation Strategies meeting in D.C. She presented at the annual meetings in Monterey and Denver. In October, 2018, she trained the Montana Superior Court Judges on DCST on behalf of NCJFCJ.

Judge Mack serves as the NCJFCJ representative to the Global Advisory Committee, an

advisory committee to the U.S. Attorney General on information sharing among federal, state, and tribal governments and agencies. She is on the GAC’s executive steering committee, and is a member of the current Task Team working on a white paper on meth and other drugs now associated with the opioid crisis.

 

 

 

 

TREASURER CANDIDATE MATERIALS 

JUDGE EGAN WALKER 

   

SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

STATE OF NEVADA COUNTY OF WASHOE

 EGAN WALKER Physical: One South Sierra District Judge Mailing: 75 Court Street Department 7 Reno, Nevada 89501 Family Division (775)329-3179

April 29, 2019 Hon. John Romero, NCJFCJ President c/o Cheryl Davidek at cdavidek@ncjfcj.org Re: Application for Treasurer Your Honor, Please accept this correspondence as my official application for the office of NCJFCJ Treasurer. I have given a great deal of deliberation to this application, and hope I bring a unique cross-section of skills and attributes to the table. I am located in Reno, and if elected as Treasurer I intend to give full attention to the budget and financial circumstances of the Council. I’m a strong believer that if one offers a criticism of a situation, as I have over our budgetary issues, one is responsible to then work toward solutions. I intend to work toward continued fiscal solutions. I have broad fiscal and budgetary experience. I have run my own law firm, been the managing member of a partnership, and held many and varied positions in non-profit entities, several with multi-million dollar budgets. Together with those experiences, I have a keen mind and strong curiosity which will lend to “getting to the bottom” of thorny fiscal issues. As a Board of Directors we owe a fiduciary duty to the Council and its members. I intend to live up to that duty if elected treasurer, but also in any capacity in which I may serve. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Best personal regards, District Judge

Egan K. Walker 965 Festa Way Sparks, Nevada 89434 (775) 331-1801(h)

(775)328-3158(w) Judge.Walker@washoecourts.us

EDUCATION/LICENSURE

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Nevada-Reno; graduated with distinction May 1986.

Juris Doctorate; UOP-McGeorge School of Law – Admitted with Honors; Graduated May 21, 1991.

Member Nevada State Bar, No. 4408. Member California State Bar, No. 161096 (inactive). WORK EXPERIENCE

December 2017 to present: District Judge, Department 7, Second Judicial District Court, State of Nevada. Responsible for adult criminal prosecutions, gross misdemeanor through major felonies; civil cases with an amount in controversy in excess of $10,000; adult guardianships; and a program entitled “Project ONE,” designed to marshal court resources in holistic ways for children and families across multiple case types .

March 2011 to December 2017: District Judge, Department 2, Second Judicial District Court, State of Nevada; Family Division. Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Division, responsible for Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Dependency, Minor Guardianships; and Project ONE.

January 2009 to March 2011: Family Court Master, Second Judicial District

Court, State of Nevada. Responsible for Child Support, Adult Guardianship and Self – Represented Litigant dockets.

March 2003 – January 2009: Owner, Managing Member, Kreitlein & Walker, LTD/LLC, focusing on all aspects of Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Family Law, Civil Litigation and Contract disputes in both Federal and State courts. March 2000 – March 2003: Owner, Egan K. Walker, Esq., sole practitioner – Civil Litigation and Family Law.

December 2000 to December 2008–Judge Pro Tempore Sparks Municipal Court.

June 1995 to February 2000--Deputy District Attorney, Washoe County District Attorney's Office; Assigned to the Major Violator's Unit/Domestic Violence Protection Team, prosecuting high profile Murder, Sexual Assault and Child abuse cases.

June 1992 to June 1995--Deputy District Attorney, Carson City District Attorney's Office. Prosecuting all crimes, misdemeanor through felonies, including Homicide, and appellate practice to the Nevada Supreme Court. August 1991 through June 1992 -- Law clerk to Judge Michael Fondi, First Judicial District Court, Department 2.

July 1987 through May 1991 — Clinical Nurse II, Coronary Care Unit at the U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California.

January 1992 to August 1995 -- Member, St. Mary's Regional Medical Center Biomedical Ethics Committee.

February 1996 to February 1997 -- Member, Northern Nevada Medical Center Bioethics Committee.

COURT IMPROVEMENT/JUSTICE IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES

Co-chair Nevada Juvenile Justice Oversight Commission Board Member, Nevada Children’s Commission Permanent Member, Nevada Guardianship Commission National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Board Member – Appointed July 2015 Secretary – July 2017 through present Nevada Administrative Office of the Courts

Member – Nevada Court Improvement Project, Select Committee

Washoe County Law Library Board (2011 - 2014) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Bruce Thompson Chapter, American Inns of Court; Master of the Inn

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Nevada District Judge’s Association Nevada State Bar Association California State Bar Association Washoe County Bar Association

COMMUNITY SERVICE 2014 to 2017 – Board Member, Children’s Cabinet

2004 to 2012 – Member and Board Member, Sparks Rotary Club

2000 to 2012 – Past President, Board Member, and Advisory Board Member, Crisis Call Center

2006 to 2015 – Board Member, Healthy Families Foundation

1988 to 1998 -- Instructed healthcare professionals about the evolving state of the law regarding Advanced Directives and the so called “Right to Die.” 2009 – 2017 – Unit coach, We The People program, Reed High School; Kids Court – Lemelson Stem Academy. District competition Judge for We the People.

MILITARY SERVICE

Combat medic, U.S. Army, Army National Guard; Flight medic, U.S. Army, Army National Guard; Second Lt. U.S. Army Nurse Corps, Army Reserve.

 

 

 

 

PRESIDENT‐ELECT CANDIDATE MATERIALS 

JUDGE WARNER KENNON 

   

 

 

 

PRESIDENT‐ELECT CANDIDATE MATERIALS 

JUDGE DAN MICHAEL