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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 2008

TERRY ARMSTRONG
Dr. Terry Armstrong is Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho. He has been a student of neuroscience for the past 35 years. His recent research has focused on size differences in the corpus callosum of gifted children. Dr. Armstrong is the recipient of 46 awards for teaching excellence.

NANCY S. BISHOP
Nancy Bishop received her J.D. from the University of Denver. She has been a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Idaho for 19 years, initially representing regulatory agencies, drafting legislation and administrative rules for the licensing agencies. She participated in drafting the original adult and juvenile sex offender registration acts in Idaho. She subsequently transferred to the position of Deputy Attorney General representing the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections in 1999, and often advises the department on the requirements of both the adult and juvenile sex offender registration acts. Approximately twenty-five percent of the department's population are adjudicated or convicted sex offenders who are impacted by the registration requirements. Nancy is currently on a subcommittee evaluating the impact SORNA will have on Idaho, and considering draft legislation. She was recently placed in the position of Lead Deputy
Attorney General for the department.

SHARON BURKE
Sharon Burke provides staff support to the IAC Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee and represents the counties on the Criminal Justice Commission and Interagency Committee on Substance Abuse.

Sharon is currently in the process of coordinating with misdemeanor probation officers to develop a MPO Administrators Association. In addition, she will staff a Misdemeanor Probation Planning Committee for implementation of HB408aa which provides a statutory framework for misdemeanor probation.

Sharon received her undergraduate degree from University of Idaho and a Masters in Public Administration from Boise State University.

BRANDON BURR
Brandon received his Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Boise State University and his Master's degree in Social Work from Brigham Young University. He has practice specialties in the areas of sexual abuse, substance abuse, parenting, behavior problems and the treatment of adolescents. He developed, implemented, and directed a prison-based substance abuse treatment program in Utah for seven years prior to beginning his current work treating troubled youth. He has presented several times at the Utah Fall Conference on Substance Abuse, the National Deputy Wardens Conference, and many regional conferences and local training workshops. He is the Clinical Director at Aspen Ranch in Loa, Utah, and lives in Salina, Utah with his wife, two children and seven horses.

DANIEL C. HURLBUTT, JR.

Judge Hurlbutt was appointed to the bench as a Magistrate Judge in Lincoln County on April 1, 1980. He served as a Magistrate Judge until January 1, 1984 when he was appointed as a District Judge in the Fifth Judicial District, chambered in Twin Falls County. During his service as a District Judge, Judge Hurlbutt served as the First Snake River Basin Adjudication Judge and was instrumental in establishing this adjudication as a national model of efficiency. He retired December 31, 1998, and currently serves as a Senior Judge hearing cases for the Idaho Supreme Court and district courts statewide. He has demonstrated outstanding leadership in developing training curriculum for misdemeanor probation officers and court security officers and bailiffs. In short, he is widely recognized for his exemplary leadership and legal abilities, and received the Kramer Award for Excellence in Judicial administration in 1990.

KERRY LINDORFER
Kerry has been working with sexually offending juveniles for 15 years. Kerry currently has a private practice specializing in the treatment of childhood sexual behavior problems, sexual offending, delinquency and violence. Kerry has mental health and out patient treatments also including assessments and treatment for juveniles and adults with sexual abuse, sexual victimization and domestic violence. Prior to his private practice, Kerry worked as a treatment specialist for SANE solutions, and as program coordinator of San Francisco Boy's Home; as a counselor for Project Eden and Larkin Street Youth Center in CA. He further has worked as Adjunct Faculty at Boise State University teaching Advanced Interviewing and Counseling classes.

ROBERT LONGO
Robert Longo is Director of Clinical Services; Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services, a Psychiatric Hospital, in Winston-Salem, NC. He also serves as a consultant, educator and author dedicated to sexual abuse prevention and treatment. He was previously Corporate Director of Special Programming and Clinical Training for New Hope Treatment Centers, Charleston, S. Carolina. Rob's focus is on sexual abuser assessment, treatment and program development, and is co-founder and first President of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Rob was previously Director of the Safer Society Foundation, Inc. and the Safer Standards Task Force, an Advisory Board member of the National Adolescent Perpetrator Network, a national committee member of the Center for Sex Offender Management, a national advisory committee member to the National Center On Sexual Behavior of Youth and an advisory team member to From Darkness to Light.

Rob has trained professionals in law enforcement, mental health, protective service agencies, victim advocate programs, criminal justice, and the judicial system internationally. He has been a consultant and trainer for the National Institute of Corrections and has helped develop sexual abuser treatment programs throughout the United States, and in Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

In addition, Rob has written and published five books, nine workbooks, more than forty-five chapters and articles in the field of sexual abuse treatment, and pioneered the adult sexual offender workbook series formerly published by the Safer society Press and now published by NEARI Press. He is co-editor of the new book, Current Perspectives: Working with Sexually Aggressive Youth and Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems and is the author of the books New Hope Exercises for Youth: Experiential Exercises for Children and Adolescents and Paths To Wellness and coauthor of Sexual Abuse in America: Epidemic of the 21st century.

LYNN MacEACHERN
A regionally recognized public speaker, Lynn has been helping groups and organizations turn their visions into realities for more than 30 years. A professional facilitator, she specializes in drawing out the unique perspectives inherent within each group and weaving these into a comprehensible whole. Lynn emphasizes a win-win approach to strategic development and helping group members uncover and accommodate individual and organizational interests.

Lynn is the Principle Facilitator and founder of Facilitate 2 Yes, L.C. Her clients range from the League of Women Voters National Grass Roots Visioning Project to the US Forest Service as well as numerous public and non-profit organizations. Lynn is a member of the International Association of Facilitators. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Child Development and a Master's Degree in Community and Regional Planning.

DALE McCOY

Dale McCoy has over 25 years experience in Sales & Service, Management, Training, Organization Development and Human Resources Development. After managing a multi-million dollar retail sales operation in Los Angeles, CA., for eight years, he gained extensive experience as a Human Resources Development Specialist with MCI Telecommunications and MCI WorldCom, and as Training and Development Consultant for Missouri State University's Management Development Institute in the College of Business Administration. During his tenure with MCI, Dale was part of a national Human Resources account team responsible for supporting Government Accounts, as well as Business Markets and Mass Markets segments. While a member of MCI's Knowledge Resources Team, Dale was responsible for Management Development for 16 sales and service call centers nationwide, as well as design and delivery of numerous customized training programs. For the past nine years, Dale has worked with Juvenile and Family Court personnel in his home state of Missouri on behalf of the Office of State Court Administrators, and performed customized consulting services for numerous jurisdictions. He has designed and delivered training seminars for Juvenile Court personnel in the states of Pennsylvania, Oregon, Tennessee, Indiana, and Nevada. Dale has developed and delivered management development workshops for Juvenile and Family Court personnel at conferences across the country on behalf of the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges and the National Juvenile Court Services Association. He served as a subject matter expert on the steering committee tasked with creating the Professional Juvenile Justice Administrator Certification program (PJJA), researching, creating, and validating the PJJA Competency Model, writing and continuing to teach two of the four core courses online through the University of Nevada, Reno. Dale was honored to be the keynote speaker and a featured facilitator at the 2006 state conference of the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association. Before launching his independent practice in July, 2001, Dale was Professional Services Manager of Training Development for Ineto, Inc., a web-based customer relations solution company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dale specializes in the field of Organization and Human Systems Development and is a graduate of Drury University in Springfield, MO. He is pursuing a Master's degree in Education & Online Teaching and Learning from California State University East Bay. He is a popular guest lecturer on the topic of Performance Management in Missouri State University's highly rated Techno-MBA graduate program, and is a member of the American Society of Training & Development, as well as the Society of Human Resources Management and the Organization Development Network.

MICHAEL PRITCHARD

Dr. Michael Pritchard began his career on both the comedy stage and as a juvenile counselor in San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center. In 1980, Michael Pritchard won first place in the San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition as well as winning the prestigious California Probation Officer of the Year. Drawing from his counseling background, Michael Pritchard began using humor to inspire, teach communication skills, anger management, diversity, conflict resolution and overcoming burnout and stress. For his work in promoting nonviolence with youth, Dr. Michael Pritchard was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Hartwick University. He established Heartland Media Foundation building character and emotional intelligence, violence prevention, inciting motivation and leadership in both youth and adults to improve schools and communities.

TIM RANDALL
Sgt. Tim Randall, 26 years of Law Enforcement experience with Nampa Police Department. He worked for 11 years as a Child Abuse investigator, and 13 years as a polygraph examiner. Tim has been a certified POST instructor for the past twenty years. He is currently assigned as a patrol supervisor.

ERIN ROSEN
Erin G. Rosen received her juris doctorate degree from The University of Akron School of Law in 1999. After graduation, she worked for the Summit County Prosecutor's Office in the Appellate and Juvenile Divisions. Subsequent to that, she worked for three years for the Brown County Prosecutor's Office in the Juvenile, Municipal and Appellate Divisions. In October of 2004, she began her career with the Ohio Attorney General's Office as an Assistant Attorney General in the Child and Elder Protection Section, focusing on criminal prosecutions involving child victims of sexual abuse. Last year, she was promoted to the position of Senior Assistant Attorney General. She was recently named General Counsel for the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway (OHLEG), which is a criminal justice information network. OHLEG currently provides access to nine law enforcement databases and tools, and includes a cross-database search engine and proprietary records management system for agencies that cannot afford to purchase a commercial record keeping system. OHLEG is the home for Ohio's state sex offender registry, which is accessible to the public through eSORN on the Ohio Attorney General's Office website.

JUDGE RON SCHILLING

DETECTIVE SHELLIE STROLBERG
Shellie has been with the Ada County Sheriff's Office since 1995. She is currently a detective in the Major Crimes Unit where she specializes in investigating felony crimes against people, including rape, robbery, and homicide. The bulk of the cases she investigates are child sexual abuse.

JUDGE JOHN VARIN
John F. Varin is a Senior Magistrate Judge with 22 years of judicial experience, the last 13 years as a juvenile court judge serving 6 south-central Idaho Counties. He graduated from the University of Idaho Business College in 1968 and the University of Idaho Law School in 1971. Since 1995 he has been the chair of the Idaho Supreme Court Juvenile Justice Advisory Team, composed of a judge doing juvenile work from each of Idaho's seven judicial districts. He is currently the chair of the Idaho Supreme Court Juvenile Rules Committee and appointed by Idaho's Governor as chair of the State of Idaho Juvenile Justice Commission. He is currently the Juvenile Court Director for the Administrative Office of the Supreme Court.

CHRIS YOUNT-IDAHO STATE POLICE
Chris Yount worked for the Boundary County Sheriff's office beginning in 1976. He then moved to Bonners Ferry PD in 1977. He started with the Idaho State Police in 1980; first in Pocatello, then Coeur d'Alene, ID. Chris became the Priest River resident trooper in 1982, and has remained there ever since. He is currently a
P. O. S.T. DUI instructor, and a Drug Recognition Expert Instructor. He is a Breath Testing Specialist and has expertise in Executive Protection. Chris's hobbies include his six children (three boys and three girls). He is also interested in hunting, fishing and riding ATV's.

 




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