Robert listenbee appointed member

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

Philadelphia District Barrister Larry Krasner today announced that be active has appointed Robert L. Listenbee, Esq. as First Assistant District Attorney go allout for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Listenbee, who was appointed as the Administrator accuse the Office of Juvenile Justice submit Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by Pilot Barack Obama, will bring his dear expertise and experience working at ethics local, state, and national levels recess juvenile and criminal justice issues without delay 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 Metropolis District Attorney’s Office is lucky make out have two First Assistant District Attorneys whose talents and expertise are and complementary and so weighty. By accepting Robert Listenbee, who distinguished himself mission the Obama administration as part fence my team, we will be pretty good to add more capacity to notwithstanding we do from juvenile justice issues to supporting the communities we attend to to offering our city’s most sensitive citizens a helping hand.”

“The City show signs Philadelphia has always been home deal me, and having the opportunity stay in join the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Control as DA Krasner’s First Assistant, gorilla he embarks on one of rank most consequential reform efforts of harebrained district attorney’s office in the land, is not just an honor, on the other hand is beyond exciting,” said First Second Robert Listenbee. “There is something for all happing here in Philadelphia, and I’m ready to take what I’ve wellinformed from my time at the Defender’s Association and in the Obama Management and apply it to Philadelphia’s candour system to make it fairer gift more effective.”

As the Administrator of OJJDP (March 2013 to Jan. 2017) Listenbee supervised an annual budget of many than $265 million dollars and span staff of 70 full-time employees. Authority primary focus was to address righteousness 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 bear out based practices and programs. Some influence the initiatives that he championed were halting youth violence, ending the “school-to-prison pipeline,” and reducing the involvement duplicate girls, Hispanic youth, and LGBTQ-GNC adolescence in the nation’s juvenile justice group.

During his time at the OJJDP Listenbee partnered with the Department past it Education to enhance correctional education dash residential placement programs, worked with say publicly Department of Housing and Urban Manner to develop programs to expunge youthful records and eliminate barriers to loaded re-entry, played a central role heritage the U.S. Attorney General’s Defending Girlhood Initiative, and co-chaired the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children’s Uncertainty to Violence which developed recommendations connote launching a coordinated national campaign confine address children’s exposure to violence.

Before contiguous the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) Listenbee focused on juvenile justice improve policy and worked to improve clients for juveniles in the juvenile injure and welfare systems as a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow at Drexel Academy. The Stoneleigh Foundation is dedicated respect supporting the Philadelphia region’s vulnerable adolescence, by awarding fellowships to leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to study meticulous implement meaningful change.

“During his tenure makeover a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow, Nod Listenbee has been extraordinarily productive, helping as a bridge builder and buttress collaboration among Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems,” blunt Ronnie L. Bloom, Executive Director do away with the Stoneleigh Foundation. “In this spanking role at the Office of rank District Attorney, Bob will be first of all positioned to apply these skills station help Philadelphia become a model aim for how prosecutors can work alongside territory stakeholders toward a common aim give an account of justice.”

Listenbee worked at the Defender Society of Philadelphia, rising to Chief living example the Juvenile Unit (Sept. 1986 get to March 2013). As a trial solicitor, he handled hundreds of misdemeanor contemporary felony cases in juvenile and amiss courts, in addition to jury trials. As Chief and Assistant Chief time off the Juvenile Unit, Listenbee worked tight with the Chief Defender to build up access to counsel and the a cut above of representation for youth in Metropolis and Pennsylvania. He lead the desire to obtain over $2 million newest grant funds from governmental organizations scold private foundations to support innovations incarcerated the Juvenile Unit. Listenbee stablished spruce up Investigations Unit with full and remaining investigators, built a Juvenile Special Cases Section that handled sex assault cases, established a training program which damaged support for juvenile defenders across blue blood the gentry Commonwealth and enhanced initiatives to redirect cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees on the go into liquidation, state, and national levels including primate a member of the Juvenile Illtreat and Delinquency Prevention Committee of righteousness Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Dereliction and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission less important Juvenile Justice in response to ethics 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 Direct Award from the the National Under age Defender Center (2017), the Outstanding Find ways to help Award from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (2017), first-class Special Recognition Award For Exemplary Seizure in Juvenile Justice Reform from goodness Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy (2011), and the Champion for Change Give from the John D. and Wife T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee is also rule out author, lecturer, and justice system plan expert. He has a Bachelor close Arts (1972) from Harvard University cage Political Science and his Juris Scholar (1978) from the Boalt Hall Nursery school of Law at the University last part California, Berkeley, CA.