March 28, 2003

All of today's events (except for dinner) will take place at the University of Tennessee College of Law Building - 1505 W. Cumberland Avenue.

2:30 p.m.
Welcome

Tom Galligan
Dean, University of Tennessee College of Law

Mark Stephens
District Public Defender, Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office

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3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Gideon's Promise...The State of the Right to Counsel - Roadblocks, Hurdles, and Progress

Stephen Bright
Director, Southern Center for Human Rights

4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Break

4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Three Break-Out Sessions

Session 1: Taking Gideon's Pulse - The Status of Gideon in America

David J. Carroll
Director of Research & Evaluations, Defender Services Division, National Legal Aid & Defender Association

Kristine Orlando
Policy Advisor for Adjudication Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice

Session 2: Gideon Down Home - Making the Right to Counsel Meaningful in Tennessee

Andy Hardin
Executive Director, Tennessee Public Defenders Conference

Bryan Shaha
Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel, Greeley, Colorodo

Paula Voss
President, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Session 3: Expanding Representation to Include Other Professionals in the Delivery of Defense Services]

Mary Hoban
Chief Social Worker, Office of the Chief Public Defender, Connecticut

Linda McLaughlin
Social Services Director, Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office

Jim Neuhard
Director, State Appellate Defenders Office, Detroit, Michigan

Roger Nooe
Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee

6:30 p.m.
Dinner
at Calhoun's on the River

Randolph Stone
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago Law School

March 29, 2003

All of today's events will take place at the Public Defender's Community Law Office (CLO) - 1101 Liberty Street.

8:00 a.m.
Breakfast

8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The Holistic Representation Concept

Doug Ammar
Executive Director, Georgia Justice Project

Bennett H. Brummer
Public Defender, Miami - Dae County Public Defenders Office

Leonard Noisette
Executive Director, Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem

Robin Steinberg
Executive Director, The Bronx Defenders

Mark Stephens
District Public Defender, Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office

Moderator: Christopher E. Stone
President and Director, Vera Institute of Justice

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
The Victim's Voice and Holistic Representation

Kate Lowenstein
Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation

Randall E. Nichols
District Attorney General, Knox County, Tennessee

Gene Patterson
Anchor, WATE-TV

Crystal Redd
Paralegal/Investigator, Southern Center for Human Rights

Moderator: Robin Steinberg
Executive Director, The Bronx Defenders

12:00 p.m.
Lunch

Kim Taylor-Thompson
Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Changing the Public's Perception of Criminal Defense - The Role the Media Plays in Holistic Representation

Barry Henderson
Senior Editor, Metro Pulse

George Korda
President, Korda Communications

Margie Nichols
News Director, WBIR-TV

Georgiana Vines
Associate Editor, Knoxville News-Sentinel

Henry Weinstein
Legal Affairs Writer, Los Angeles Times

Moderator: Kim Taylor-Thompson
Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
The Role of the Judiciary and the Prosecution in Realizing Gideon's Promise

Justice E. Riley Anderson
Tennessee Supreme Court

Judge Richard Baumgartner
Criminal Court, Knox County, Tennessee

James R. Deadrick
Deputy Director, United States Attorney General's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee

Judge Bob McGee
General Sessions Court, Knox County, Tennessee

Judge Thomas W. Phillips
United States District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee

Moderator: Catherine Clarke
Director, National Defender Leadership Institute

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Realizing Gideon's Promise on a Limited Budget

State Senator Ben Atchley
6th Senatorial District, State of Tennessee

Connie Clark
Director, Administrative Office of the Courts, Tennessee

Patricia B. Dishman
Director, Office of Criminal Justice Programs, Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Resource Development and Support

Mike Ragsdale
County Executive, Knox County, Tennessee

Moderator: Mark Moore
Guggenheim Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

4:45 p.m.
Presentation and Tour of Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office

Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.
2nd Congressional District, State of Tennessee

Mark Stephens
District Public Defender, Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office