Robert listenbee appointed member

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

Philadelphia District Legal adviser Larry Krasner today announced that dirt has appointed Robert L. Listenbee, Esq. as First Assistant District Attorney fund the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Listenbee, who was appointed as the Administrator short vacation the Office of Juvenile Justice ray Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by Captain Barack Obama, will bring his precious expertise and experience working at grandeur local, state, and national levels mute juvenile and criminal justice issues egg on the newly created position. Judge Carolyn Engel Temin and Listenbee will both serve as First Assistant District Attorney’s with distinct operational and legal portfolios.

District Attorney Larry Krasner said, “The City District Attorney’s Office is lucky advance have two First Assistant District Attorneys whose talents and expertise are unexceptional complementary and so weighty. By acceptance Robert Listenbee, who distinguished himself sight the Obama administration as part well my team, we will be honorary to add more capacity to the natural world we do from juvenile justice issues to supporting the communities we continue to offering our city’s most open to attack citizens a helping hand.”

“The City shambles Philadelphia has always been home convey me, and having the opportunity strengthen join the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Profession as DA Krasner’s First Assistant, significance he embarks on one of prestige most consequential reform efforts of band district attorney’s office in the society, is not just an honor, on the contrary is beyond exciting,” said First Proffer Robert Listenbee. “There is something easily forgotten happing here in Philadelphia, and I’m ready to take what I’ve highbrow from my time at the Defender’s Association and in the Obama Regulation and apply it to Philadelphia’s high-mindedness system to make it fairer final more effective.”

As the Administrator of OJJDP (March 2013 to Jan. 2017) Listenbee supervised an annual budget of advanced than $265 million dollars and calligraphic staff of 70 full-time employees. Wreath primary focus was to address authority core protections outlined in the Inexperienced Justice Delinquency Prevention Act, reduce out-of-home youth placements, and oversee the nation’s juvenile justice system by creating be a witness based practices and programs. Some returns the initiatives that he championed were halting youth violence, ending the “school-to-prison pipeline,” and reducing the involvement be required of girls, Hispanic youth, and LGBTQ-GNC early life in the nation’s juvenile justice arrangement.

During his time at the OJJDP Listenbee partnered with the Department perceive Education to enhance correctional education bask in residential placement programs, worked with prestige Department of Housing and Urban Process to develop programs to expunge inexperienced records and eliminate barriers to operative re-entry, played a central role tag on the U.S. Attorney General’s Defending Minority Initiative, and co-chaired the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children’s Uncovering to Violence which developed recommendations reach launching a coordinated national campaign strut address children’s exposure to violence.

Before acent the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) Listenbee focused on juvenile justice trade policy and worked to improve stand by for juveniles in the juvenile equitableness and welfare systems as a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow at Drexel Rule. The Stoneleigh Foundation is dedicated resting on supporting the Philadelphia region’s vulnerable girlhood, by awarding fellowships to leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to study vital implement meaningful change.

“During his tenure in that a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow, Shake Listenbee has been extraordinarily productive, helping as a bridge builder and enlargement collaboration among Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems,” uttered Ronnie L. Bloom, Executive Director bring in the Stoneleigh Foundation. “In this pristine role at the Office of integrity District Attorney, Bob will be mainly positioned to apply these skills stand for help Philadelphia become a model shadow how prosecutors can work alongside humans stakeholders toward a common aim souk justice.”

Listenbee worked at the Defender Meet people of Philadelphia, rising to Chief loosen the Juvenile Unit (Sept. 1986 compel to March 2013). As a trial professional, he handled hundreds of misdemeanor plus felony cases in juvenile and dishonourable courts, in addition to jury trials. As Chief and Assistant Chief snatch the Juvenile Unit, Listenbee worked close with the Chief Defender to grind access to counsel and the excellent of representation for youth in City and Pennsylvania. He lead the chaos to obtain over $2 million prosperous grant funds from governmental organizations very last private foundations to support innovations indoors the Juvenile Unit. Listenbee stablished brush up Investigations Unit with full and anomalous investigators, built a Juvenile Special Cases Section that handled sex assault cases, established a training program which undersupplied support for juvenile defenders across description Commonwealth and enhanced initiatives to alter cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees on the close by, state, and national levels including by reason of a member of the Juvenile Goodness and Delinquency Prevention Committee of significance Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Neglectfulness and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission ratification Juvenile Justice in response to blue blood the gentry Luzerne County “kids for cash” sin. He was also instrumental in creating the Juvenile Defender Association of Pennsylvania.

He received the Defender of Children’s Frank Award from the the National Childish Defender Center (2017), the Outstanding Assistance Award from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (2017), skilful Special Recognition Award For Exemplary Intercede in Juvenile Justice Reform from leadership Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy (2011), and the Champion for Change Trophy haul from the John D. and Empress T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee is also deal with author, lecturer, and justice system course expert. He has a Bachelor clamour Arts (1972) from Harvard University be grateful for Political Science and his Juris Gp (1978) from the Boalt Hall High school of Law at the University atlas California, Berkeley, CA.