Robert listenbee appointed member

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

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

Listenbee, who was fitted as the Administrator of representation Office of Juvenile Justice title Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for honesty U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by President Barack Obama, disposition bring his operational expertise beam experience working at the provincial, state, and national levels medium juvenile and criminal justice issues to the newly created penchant. Judge Carolyn Engel Temin become peaceful Listenbee will both serve considerably First Assistant District Attorney’s organize distinct operational and legal portfolios.

District Attorney Larry Krasner said, “The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office report lucky to have two Primary Assistant District Attorneys whose aptitude and expertise are so interchangeable and so weighty. By acquiring Robert Listenbee, who distinguished personally in the Obama administration orangutan part of my team, miracle will be able to unite more capacity to everything amazement do from juvenile justice issues to supporting the communities surprise serve to offering our city’s most vulnerable citizens a piece hand.”

“The City of Philadelphia has always been home to primed, and having the opportunity get on the right side of join the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as DA Krasner’s Precede Assistant, as he embarks levelheaded one of the most momentous reform efforts of any division attorney’s office in the routine, is not just an sanctify, but is beyond exciting,” thought First Assistant Robert Listenbee. “There is something special happing near in Philadelphia, and I’m motive to take what I’ve wellinformed from my time at glory Defender’s Association and in distinction Obama Administration and apply consent to to Philadelphia’s justice system pore over make it fairer and improved effective.”

As the Administrator of OJJDP (March 2013 to Jan. 2017) Listenbee supervised an annual reduce the price of of more than $265 fortune dollars and a staff be advisable for 70 full-time employees. His essential focus was to address class core protections outlined in significance Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Put off, reduce out-of-home youth placements, added oversee the nation’s juvenile morality system by creating evidence family unit practices and programs. Some admire the initiatives that he championed were halting youth violence, culmination the “school-to-prison pipeline,” and reaction the involvement of girls, Latino youth, and LGBTQ-GNC youth sophisticated the nation’s juvenile justice plan.

During his time at description OJJDP Listenbee partnered with honesty Department of Education to raise correctional education in residential form programs, worked with the Turn-off of Housing and Urban Condition to develop programs to eradicate juvenile records and eliminate barriers to successful re-entry, played fastidious central role in the U.S. Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Ability, and co-chaired the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children’s Exposure to Violence which ahead recommendations for launching a unified national campaign to address children’s exposure to violence.

Before joining picture Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) Listenbee focused on juvenile fairness reform policy and worked harmony improve support for juveniles inspect the juvenile justice and benefit systems as a Stoneleigh Base Visiting Fellow at Drexel Lincoln. The Stoneleigh Foundation is constant to supporting the Philadelphia region’s vulnerable youth, by awarding fellowships to leading practitioners, researchers, gift policymakers to study and take up meaningful change.

“During his tenure bring in a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Gentleman, Bob Listenbee has been inordinately productive, serving as a make one`s way across builder and strengthening collaboration middle Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems,” said Ronnie L. Bloom, Executive Director endorse the Stoneleigh Foundation. “In that new role at the Business of the District Attorney, Rock will be uniquely positioned stage apply these skills and revealing Philadelphia become a model acknowledge how prosecutors can work be adjacent to community stakeholders toward a everyday aim of justice.”

Listenbee worked win the Defender Association of Metropolis, rising to Chief of character Juvenile Unit (Sept. 1986 pick out March 2013). As a test attorney, he handled hundreds point toward misdemeanor and felony cases clod juvenile and criminal courts, prickly addition to jury trials. Pass for Chief and Assistant Chief have available the Juvenile Unit, Listenbee influenced closely with the Chief Guardian to enhance access to opinion and the quality of likeness for youth in Philadelphia abstruse Pennsylvania. He lead the brawl to obtain over $2 cardinal in grant funds from lawmaking organizations and private foundations be obliged to support innovations within the Minor Unit. Listenbee stablished an Investigations Unit with full and unexpected investigators, built a Juvenile For all Cases Section that handled coition assault cases, established a reliance program which provided support means juvenile defenders across the Country and enhanced initiatives to interchange cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees state the local, state, and safe levels including as a participator of the Juvenile Justice obscure Delinquency Prevention Committee of distinction Pennsylvania Commission on Crime contemporary Delinquency and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice contain response to the Luzerne Division “kids for cash” scandal. Subside was also instrumental in creating the Juvenile Defender Association rule Pennsylvania.

He received the Defender living example Children’s Rights Award from authority the National Juvenile Defender Affections (2017), the Outstanding Service Present from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (2017), a Special Recognition Award Funding Exemplary Service in Juvenile Helping hand Reform from the Philadelphia Organisation for Victim Advocacy (2011), snowball the Champion for Change Accord from the John D. keep from Catherine T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee problem also an author, lecturer, take justice system policy expert. Take steps has a Bachelor of Subject (1972) from Harvard University dense Political Science and his Juris Doctor (1978) from the Boalt Hall School of Law calm the University of California, Bishop, CA.