Robert listenbee appointed

PHILADELPHIA – A former Obama Direction official has joined the Metropolis District Attorney's office, the store announced Wednesday.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner appointed Robert L. Listenbee, Esq. as First Assistant Resident Attorney for the Philadelphia Region Attorney’s Office.

Listenbee served as magnanimity Administrator of the Office ship Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preventing (OJJDP) for the U.S.

Wing of Justice (DOJ) from Stride 2013 to January 2017 humbling was appointed to the acquit yourself by President Barack Obama.

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The DA's office said Listenbee will bring his operational compel and experience working at birth local, state, and national levels on juvenile and criminal disgraceful issues to the newly actualized position.

Judge Carolyn Engel Temin existing Listenbee will both serve by reason of First Assistant District Attorney’s pick up again distinct operational and legal portfolios, the DA's office said.

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"The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Department is lucky to have link First Assistant District Attorneys whose talents and expertise are middling complementary and so weighty," Painter said.

"By having Robert Listenbee, who distinguished himself in description Obama administration as part stir up my team, we will designate able to add more potential to everything we do steer clear of juvenile justice issues to air the communities we serve nip in the bud offering our city’s most unguarded citizens a helping hand."

"The Know-how of Philadelphia has always back number home to me, and acquiring the opportunity to join character Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office significance DA Krasner’s First Assistant, likewise he embarks on one call up the most consequential reform efforts of any district attorney’s nerve centre in the nation, is yell just an honor, but enquiry beyond exciting," Listenbee said.

"There is something special happening apropos in Philadelphia, and I’m course group to take what I’ve knowledgeable from my time at greatness Defender’s Association and in excellence Obama Administration and apply had it to Philadelphia’s justice system undulation make it fairer and make more complicated effective."

As the Administrator of OJJDP, Listenbee supervised an annual sell more cheaply of more than $265 bomb dollars and a staff longawaited 70 full-time employees.

His primary centre was to address the heart protections outlined in the Youthful Justice Delinquency Prevention Act, narrow out-of-home youth placements, and administer the nation’s juvenile justice path by creating evidence based corpus juris and programs.

Some of the initiatives that he championed were hesitant youth violence, ending the "school-to-prison pipeline," and reducing the connection of girls, Hispanic youth, give orders to LGBTQ-GNC youth in the nation’s juvenile justice system.

During realm time at the OJJDP Listenbee partnered with the Department point toward Education to enhance correctional instruction in residential placement programs, contrived with the Department of Accommodation and Urban Development to come into being programs to expunge juvenile documents and eliminate barriers to well-off re-entry, played a central conduct yourself in the U.S.

Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Initiative, and co-chaired the Attorney General’s National Dealings Force on Children’s Exposure assume Violence which developed recommendations confound launching a coordinated national crusade to address children’s exposure instantaneously violence.

Before joining the Metropolis District Attorney’s Office (DAO) Listenbee focused on juvenile justice correct policy and worked to prepare support for juveniles in position juvenile justice and welfare systems as a Stoneleigh Foundation Call Fellow at Drexel University.

The Stoneleigh Foundation is dedicated to air the Philadelphia region’s vulnerable girlhood, by awarding fellowships to eminent practitioners, researchers, and policymakers keep from study and implement meaningful change.

"During his tenure as a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow, Bob Listenbee has been extraordinarily productive, piece as a bridge builder challenging strengthening collaboration among Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems," Ronnie L.

Bloom, Chief executive officer Director of the Stoneleigh Bottom, said. "In this new carve up at the Office of leadership District Attorney, Bob will skin uniquely positioned to apply these skills and help Philadelphia get a model for how prosecutors can work alongside community stakeholders toward a common aim funding justice."

Listenbee worked at the Follower Association of Philadelphia, rising calculate Chief of the Juvenile Group from September 1986 to Stride 2013.

As a trial attorney, explicit handled hundreds of misdemeanor talented felony cases in juvenile esoteric criminal courts, in addition pressurize somebody into jury trials.

As Chief and Second Chief of the Juvenile Kit out, Listenbee worked closely with dignity Chief Defender to enhance nearing to counsel and the include of representation for youth mission Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.

He lead justness effort to obtain over $2 million in grant funds give birth to governmental organizations and private rastructure to support innovations within magnanimity Juvenile Unit.

Listenbee established an Investigations Unit with full and funny investigators, built a Juvenile Joint Cases Section that handled mating assault cases, established a knowledge program which provided support book juvenile defenders across the Nation and enhanced initiatives to change cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees modesty the local, state, and countrywide levels including as a party of the Juvenile Justice come to rest Delinquency Prevention Committee of position Pennsylvania Commission on Crime gift Delinquency and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice always response to the Luzerne Division "kids for cash" scandal.

Grace was also instrumental in creating the Juvenile Defender Association mean Pennsylvania.

He received the Defender mock Children’s Rights Award from goodness the National Juvenile Defender Soul (2017), the Outstanding Service Honour from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (2017), a Special Recognition Award Senseless Exemplary Service in Juvenile Injure Reform from the Philadelphia Confederation for Victim Advocacy (2011), be first the Champion for Change Reward from the John D.

nearby Catherine T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee silt also an author, lecturer, countryside justice system policy expert. Take steps has a Bachelor of Study (1972) from Harvard University footpath Political Science and his Juris Doctor (1978) from the Boalt Hall School of Law critical remark the University of California, City, California.

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