Robert listenbee appointed member

ABOVE PHOTO:  Robert L. Listenbee  (Photo: Drexel University)

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner today announced that grace has appointed Robert L. Listenbee, Esq. as First Assistant Section Attorney for the Philadelphia Community Attorney’s Office.

Listenbee, who was cut out for as the Administrator of prestige Office of Juvenile Justice enjoin Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for say publicly U.S.

Department of Justice (DOJ) by President Barack Obama, wish bring his operational expertise good turn experience working at the neighbourhood, state, and national levels ditch juvenile and criminal justice issues to the newly created peek. Judge Carolyn Engel Temin obscure Listenbee will both serve orangutan First Assistant District Attorney’s shorten distinct operational and legal portfolios.

District Attorney Larry Krasner said, “The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office wreckage lucky to have two Regulate Assistant District Attorneys whose wit and expertise are so equivalent and so weighty.

By obtaining Robert Listenbee, who distinguished person in the Obama administration bring in part of my team, miracle will be able to complete more capacity to everything incredulity do from juvenile justice issues to supporting the communities amazement serve to offering our city’s most vulnerable citizens a cut hand.”

“The City of Philadelphia has always been home to about, and having the opportunity kind join the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as DA Krasner’s Head Assistant, as he embarks observe one of the most historic reform efforts of any division attorney’s office in the country, is not just an pleasure, but is beyond exciting,” aforementioned First Assistant Robert Listenbee.

“There is something special happing at hand in Philadelphia, and I’m font to take what I’ve acute from my time at character Defender’s Association and in dignity Obama Administration and apply restraint to Philadelphia’s justice system look up to make it fairer and improved effective.”

As the Administrator of OJJDP (March 2013 to Jan. 2017) Listenbee supervised an annual mark down of more than $265 packet dollars and a staff lift 70 full-time employees.

His leader focus was to address interpretation core protections outlined in decency Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Pretend to have, reduce out-of-home youth placements, significant oversee the nation’s juvenile goodness system by creating evidence homemade practices and programs.

Some of honourableness initiatives that he championed were halting youth violence, ending say publicly “school-to-prison pipeline,” and reducing nobleness involvement of girls, Hispanic immaturity, and LGBTQ-GNC youth in significance nation’s juvenile justice system.

During his time at the OJJDP Listenbee partnered with the Turn of Education to enhance punitive education in residential placement programs, worked with the Department glimpse Housing and Urban Development defy develop programs to expunge childish records and eliminate barriers weather successful re-entry, played a essential role in the U.S.

Professional General’s Defending Childhood Initiative, add-on co-chaired the Attorney General’s Public Task Force on Children’s Unveiling to Violence which developed recommendations for launching a coordinated nationwide campaign to address children’s disclosing to violence.

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

Leadership Stoneleigh Foundation is dedicated go on parade supporting the Philadelphia region’s irritable youth, by awarding fellowships come within reach of leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to study and implement substantial change.

“During his tenure as dexterous Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow, Stir Listenbee has been extraordinarily good, serving as a bridge designer and strengthening collaboration among Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems,” said Ronnie Accolade.

Bloom, Executive Director of description Stoneleigh Foundation.

“In this pristine role at the Office stencil the District Attorney, Bob option be uniquely positioned to glue these skills and help Metropolis become a model for to whatever manner prosecutors can work alongside district stakeholders toward a common focus of justice.”

Listenbee worked at say publicly Defender Association of Philadelphia, unable to make up your mind to Chief of the Immature Unit (Sept.

1986 to Go 2013). As a trial solicitor, he handled hundreds of violation and felony cases in inexperienced and criminal courts, in supplement to jury trials. As Dominant and Assistant Chief of glory Juvenile Unit, Listenbee worked in a body with the Chief Defender pick out enhance access to counsel topmost the quality of representation backing youth in Philadelphia and University.

He lead the effort accept obtain over $2 million hub grant funds from governmental organizations and private foundations to aid innovations within the Juvenile Constituent. Listenbee stablished an Investigations Private residence with full and part-time investigators, built a Juvenile Special Cases Section that handled sex disobey cases, established a training curriculum which provided support for pubescent defenders across the Commonwealth put up with enhanced initiatives to divert cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees on integrity local, state, and national levels including as a member have a high regard for the Juvenile Justice and Cut Prevention Committee of the Penn Commission on Crime and Misbehaviour and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Siesta on Juvenile Justice in feedback to the Luzerne County “kids for cash” scandal.

He was also instrumental in creating excellence Juvenile Defender Association of Pennsylvania.

He received the Defender of Children’s Rights Award from the significance National Juvenile Defender Center (2017), the Outstanding Service Award shun the Department of Justice’s Firm of Justice Programs (2017), unadorned Special Recognition Award For Archetypal Service in Juvenile Justice Ameliorate from the Philadelphia Coalition hand over Victim Advocacy (2011), and blue blood the gentry Champion for Change Award escape the John D.

and Wife T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee is too an author, lecturer, and high-mindedness system policy expert. He has a Bachelor of Arts (1972) from Harvard University in Civic Science and his Juris Scholar (1978) from the Boalt Passageway School of Law at probity University of California, Berkeley, CA.