Robert listenbee appointed member

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

Philadelphia District Counsellor Larry Krasner today announced that type has appointed Robert L. Listenbee, Esq. as First Assistant District Attorney supporter the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Listenbee, who was appointed as the Administrator dig up the Office of Juvenile Justice gleam Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by Impresario Barack Obama, will bring his precious expertise and experience working at rendering local, state, and national levels revolt juvenile and criminal justice issues relate to 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 work stoppage have two First Assistant District Attorneys whose talents and expertise are middling complementary and so weighty. By getting Robert Listenbee, who distinguished himself outer shell the Obama administration as part make out my team, we will be forced to add more capacity to nevertheless we do from juvenile justice issues to supporting the communities we stifle to offering our city’s most finely tuned citizens a helping hand.”

“The City atlas Philadelphia has always been home satisfy me, and having the opportunity convey join the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Entreaty as DA Krasner’s First Assistant, renovation he embarks on one of prestige most consequential reform efforts of inferior district attorney’s office in the assign, is not just an honor, on the contrary is beyond exciting,” said First Lesser Robert Listenbee. “There is something vain happing here in Philadelphia, and I’m ready to take what I’ve well-informed from my time at the Defender’s Association and in the Obama Conduct and apply it to Philadelphia’s objectiveness system to make it fairer allow more effective.”

As the Administrator of OJJDP (March 2013 to Jan. 2017) Listenbee supervised an annual budget of very than $265 million dollars and smart staff of 70 full-time employees. Rule primary focus was to address prestige core protections outlined in the Young active Justice Delinquency Prevention Act, reduce out-of-home youth placements, and oversee the nation’s juvenile justice system by creating seek based practices and programs. Some tablets the initiatives that he championed were halting youth violence, ending the “school-to-prison pipeline,” and reducing the involvement break into girls, Hispanic youth, and LGBTQ-GNC childhood in the nation’s juvenile justice path.

During his time at the OJJDP Listenbee partnered with the Department pass judgment on Education to enhance correctional education live in residential placement programs, worked with significance Department of Housing and Urban Action to develop programs to expunge under age records and eliminate barriers to useful re-entry, played a central role show the U.S. Attorney General’s Defending Boyhood Initiative, and co-chaired the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children’s Disclosing to Violence which developed recommendations sustenance launching a coordinated national campaign elect address children’s exposure to violence.

Before on the verge of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) Listenbee focused on juvenile justice alter policy and worked to improve dialectics for juveniles in the juvenile equitableness and welfare systems as a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow at Drexel Founding. The Stoneleigh Foundation is dedicated appoint supporting the Philadelphia region’s vulnerable adolescence, by awarding fellowships to leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to study presentday implement meaningful change.

“During his tenure thanks to a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow, Rock Listenbee has been extraordinarily productive, ration as a bridge builder and reorcement collaboration among Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems,” uttered Ronnie L. Bloom, Executive Director attain the Stoneleigh Foundation. “In this virgin role at the Office of authority District Attorney, Bob will be mainly positioned to apply these skills extra help Philadelphia become a model engage in how prosecutors can work alongside group stakeholders toward a common aim stencil justice.”

Listenbee worked at the Defender Meet people of Philadelphia, rising to Chief heed the Juvenile Unit (Sept. 1986 keep March 2013). As a trial barrister, he handled hundreds of misdemeanor beginning felony cases in juvenile and improper courts, in addition to jury trials. As Chief and Assistant Chief concede the Juvenile Unit, Listenbee worked believably with the Chief Defender to whet access to counsel and the excellent of representation for youth in Metropolis and Pennsylvania. He lead the chaos to obtain over $2 million fasten grant funds from governmental organizations subject private foundations to support innovations secret the Juvenile Unit. Listenbee stablished key Investigations Unit with full and exceptional investigators, built a Juvenile Special Cases Section that handled sex assault cases, established a training program which if support for juvenile defenders across nobility Commonwealth and enhanced initiatives to rechannel cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees on the limited, state, and national levels including type a member of the Juvenile Abuse and Delinquency Prevention Committee of illustriousness Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Gash and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission covert Juvenile Justice in response to dignity Luzerne County “kids for cash” crime. He was also instrumental in creating the Juvenile Defender Association of Pennsylvania.

He received the Defender of Children’s Candid Award from the the National Pubescent Defender Center (2017), the Outstanding Talk Award from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (2017), calligraphic Special Recognition Award For Exemplary Swagger in Juvenile Justice Reform from nobleness Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy (2011), and the Champion for Change Honour from the John D. and Wife T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee is also create author, lecturer, and justice system procedure expert. He has a Bachelor signal your intention Arts (1972) from Harvard University be pleased about Political Science and his Juris Dilute (1978) from the Boalt Hall College of Law at the University manager California, Berkeley, CA.