Workshop: Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Washington University School of Law and the MBCH Professional Development Institute are co-hosting a workshop on the "Effects of Domestic Violence on Children" on July 12, 2007. The workshop will explore the effects of violence in the home on children. Perspectives from judges, psychologists, legislators, social workers, and others will be presented. The conference, which is open to the public, will explore what is presently being done in Missouri to positively impact children affected by domestic violence and what might be done to effectuate greater changes. Satellite offices for the filing of protection orders and the increase in established safe exchange centers are among some of the options that will be discussed.
Panelists include Professor of Law Kimberly Norwood, Washington University; Judge Michael Burton, 21st Judicial Circuit, Missouri; Judge Jimmie Edwards, 22nd Judicial Circuit, Missouri; Judge Annette Eckert, 20th Judicial Circuit, Illinois; Commissioner Anne-Marie Clarke, 22nd Judicial Circuit, Missouri; Representative Jeff Roorda, District 102, Missouri; renowned psychologist Daniel Cuneo, Illinois and Katherine Claudson, Executive Director of Children First Foundation..
Time: 8:30 a.m. – noon
- Location: Washington University School of Law, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (Room 310)
- Cost: $105; open to the public
[Parking Permit is included in price of workshop and will be provided day of workshop] - 3.6 MCLE – Missouri Continuing Legal Education Units – Washington University, School of Law
- 3 CEHs – NBCC & American Pscyological Association; 3 CEHs George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, for Missouri and Illinois
- Information & Registration: 314-739-6811 or toll-free at 1-800-264-6224, ext. 334.
Featured Speakers
Kimberly Jade Norwood is a professor of law and an associate professor of African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. After graduation from law school, Norwood clerked for one year with the Honorable Clifford Scott Green, a United States District Court judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After her clerkship, she joined the litigation department at Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts.
In 1990, Norwood left the firm to join the law faculty at Washington University and was tenured in 1996. Norwood has taught first-year courses in Torts and Civil Procedure, upper-level courses in Products Liability and Pretrial Practice and Procedure, and seminars in Advanced Civil Procedure, Litigation Strategies and the effects of stereotypes in the courtroom. She teaches in the School’s Civil Justice Clinic, which primarily focuses on helping victims of domestic violence. She traveled to Accra, Ghana during the summer of 2006 to spearhead the School’s expansion of its public interest abroad program. This program not only will continue during the summer of 2007 but it will also include public interest work in Nairobi, Kenya. Norwood is in the process of starting a high school pipeline project to get high school students interested in and excited about future careers in the law. She is a member of the Mound City Bar Association’s Education Commission and a member of the American Law Institute.
Dr. Daniel Cuneo is a clinical psychologist licensed in both Illinois and Missouri. His career spans both the public and private sectors. He served as director of Clinical Services at Chester Mental Health Center, the Illinois maximum-security forensic facility. In the private sector, he is frequently appointed by state and federal courts to perform fitness and sanity evaluations and later testify as to his findings. He has been appointed in death penalty cases for mitigation and to determine fitness to be executed and has testified in both state and federal courts. In 1989, he was one of the founders of Clinical Systems, a program set up for the evaluation and treatment of sexual offenders. He has testified over 2,500 times in court as an expert witness in fitness, sanity, custody, and civil commitment hearings and serves on regional and statewide committees concerning forensic issues.
He co-authored with Brenda Owen The Fitness Game, an educational tool designed to teach concepts necessary for an individual to become fit to stand trial. The Fitness Game is presently used in fifteen states and the federal system. In 1988 he created Children First, which provides divorcing parents the opportunity to learn about and discuss the effect that divorce and changing family situations have on children. The program is now utilized in twelve states and the province of Quebec. Also Cuneo and Owen are the creators of Kids in Court, a game designed to teach children about court and to alleviate anxieties about testifying.
Honorable Jimmie M. Edwards was appointed Circuit Judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court in the State of Missouri in April 1992. He graduated from Saint Louis University in 1978, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree, and again in 1982, where he earned a Juris Doctorate Degree. Judge Edwards began the private practice of law in a small law firm in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1981; and in 1984 he joined Sabreliner Corporation, an aircraft manufacturer, where he served as its general counsel. After serving in that capacity for six years, he joined the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company legal staff until 1992, when he was appointed circuit judge.
Judge Edwards has acted as a Special Missouri Supreme Court Judge, serving when one or more of the Justices was unable to serve. He is also the Chairman of the Missouri Supreme Court's Records Committee. His committee is responsible for drafting uniform court documents and pleadings for use in all Missouri courts in addition to the development of record retention and destruction policies. Additionally, Judge Edwards is a member of the Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules committee. The Civil Rules Committee is responsible for reviewing and recommending changes to civil rules that govern civil practice and procedure in Missouri courts. He has served on the Executive Council for all Missouri State Judges, as well as the Missouri Habeas Corpus subcommittees. Judge Edwards is a professor at Saint Louis University, where he teaches courses in criminal procedure and constitutional law. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri.
Judge Jimmie M. Edwards is married to Stacy Maria and they have two children, Ashley and John. They are members of the Antioch Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri.
Anne-Marie Clarke, a St. Louis native and graduate of Rosati-Kain High School. Commissioner Clarke received her bachelor’s degree from Northwest Missouri State University after only three years. She followed her father, the late Attorney Thomas P. Clarke, into the legal profession when she received her law degree from Saint Louis University. Her mother, retired Homer G. Philips Hospital Nursery Supervisor Mary V. Clarke has always be a source of support and encouragement.
Commissioner Clarke became the first Black woman to serve on the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners with her appointment by the late Governor Mel Carnahan in April 1993. She became the first woman president of the Board with her unanimous election in April 1994 and served until her resignation in September 1998.
After presiding over cases at the Juvenile Division for St. Louis City since January 1986, Commissioner Anne-Marie Clarke began her assignment in the Domestic Relations division on June 6, 2005. At the Juvenile Division, Commissioner Clarke created the first Truancy Court in St. Louis which met weekly at Fanning Middle School. She continues to conduct Truancy Court, now at Langston Middle School. An innovative jurist, Commissioner Clarke believed it was necessary to create consequences for juveniles outside of the “tried and true” dispositions. These included weekend detentions and holding a juvenile’s personal property as “ransom” for restitution.
Commissioner Clarke is a life member of the National Bar Association and a member of the Executive Council of the NBA Judicial Council. She was the first Black member of the Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar. She is a Diamond Life member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc and an active member of the Saint Louis Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter. She is a past president of the Mound City Bar Association. She is a member of St. Alphonsus “Rock” Catholic Church. She and her husband, Richard K. Gaines, love to travel.
State Representative Jeff Roorda worked in the law enforcement profession for 17 years before leaving police work in 2004 after he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. As a police officer, Rep. Roorda participated directly in the investigation of numerous calls involving domestic violence, many of which resulted in successful prosecution or some other successful resolution to the abusive domestic situation. As a detective, Roorda served on the Jefferson County child death review board in the mid 1990’s. Rep. Roorda’s police career included two stints in undercover narcotics enforcement in Jefferson County Missouri, which is reputed to be one of the most challenging regions for drug enforcement in the country due to consistently leading the nation in Methamphetamine raids.
Rep. Roorda has seen first hand the effects of Methamphetamine use and other drug abuse on families in Missouri. Rep. Roorda rose through the ranks of law enforcement, retiring from police work with the rank of Chief of Police. Rep. Roorda has served in the Missouri House of Representatives for three years representing the 102nd district in North-Central Jefferson County. Rep. Roorda serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety. Rep. Roorda has a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice through Missouri Baptist University and a Masters Degree in Public Policy Administration through the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Michael Burton graduated with a B.A. in Government from Univ. of Notre Dame (1982) and a J.D. from Wash. U. Law School (1985). He was a Public Defender for St. Louis County and City, 1985 -- 1989 and was in private practice with the criminal defense law firm, Margulis, Grant, Burton and Margulis, 1989 -- 1999. From 1995 -- 1999, he was a Guardian ad litem for the St. Louis County Family Court (domestic and juvenile) . He served as a Associate Circuit Judge from 1999 to 2004 and is currently a Circuit Judge, (2004-- present) (in current assignment at juvenile court since Jan. 2006 -- most of my judicial assignments have been in the family court -- and recently by my choosing to do so!).
Professor Burton has served as a Adjunct professor in trial advocacy at St. Louis Univ. School of Law ( 1992 -- present) and Wash. U. School of Law
(1997 -- present). He has served as a member of various committees relating to domestic violence, including Greenbook committees and the Dom. Violence Council of St. Louis County.
Katherine S. Claudson has a Master of Music degree from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and a Master of Social Work degree from Saint Louis University. She holds an Illinois Teaching Certificate K-12 and a Gerontology Certificate from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She also has a Conflict Management Certificate from Washington University, St. Louis, and is certified in Divorce Mediation by Robert Benjamin, St. Louis, Missouri. Katherine has taught in the Illinois public schools, Missouri private schools, Southwestern Illinois College, Greenville College and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
She has worked as Advocacy Facilitator, Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri; Executive Director of the Edwardsville Senior Center; Deputy Executive Director of the Area Agency on Aging, Belleville; and Director, United Way of Greater St. Louis, Community Information and Outcome Management Division.
Katherine is currently Executive Director of the Children First Foundation which has offices in Madison and St. Clair counties, Illinois. She has held this position since January 2004. She serves on the Third Judicial Circuit Family Violence Prevention Council Court Committee; the 20th Judicial Circuit Domestic Violence Court Review Board; the Steering Committee of the 20th Judicial Circuit Family Violence Coordinating Council; and the Illinois State Family Violence Coordinating Council Visitation Exchange Advisory Committee.
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