Board of Directors

Leroy Baca, Chairman of the Board, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, Calif.

Sheriff Baca commands the largest Sheriff's Department in the United States with a budget of 2.4 billion dollars. He leads over 18,000 budgeted sworn and professional staff. The Sheriff's Department is the law enforcement provider to 40 incorporated cities, 90 unincorporated communities, 9 community colleges, and hundreds of thousands of daily commuters of the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Rapid Rail Transit District. Over 4 million people are directly protected by the Sheriff's Department. The Sheriff's Department also protects 58 Superior Courts and 600 bench officers. Moreover, the Department manages the Nation's largest local jail system housing over 20,000 prisoners.

Sheriff Baca is the Director of Homeland Security-Mutual Aid for California Region I, which includes the County of Orange. Region I serves 13 million people.

Sheriff Baca earned his Doctorate of Public Administration Degree from the University of Southern California. He is a life member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, USC Chapter. A strong advocate of education, he developed the LASD University in conjunction with 13 universities where over 950 members of the Sheriff's Department are enrolled in Bachelor's and Master's Degree programs.

Sheriff Baca was elected Sheriff of Los Angeles County in December 1998, and was re-elected in June 2006 for his third term in office. He entered the Sheriff's Department on August 23, 1965. He served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.

Edward A. Flynn, Police Chief, Milwaukee, Wisc.

Prior to his appointment as Milwaukee Police Chief, Ed Flynn served as the Springfield, Massachusetts Police Commissioner and was appointed Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety by Governor Mitt Romney. In this cabinet-level position, Flynn oversaw 21 state agencies including the Massachusetts State Police and the Massachusetts National Guard. Flynn previously served as a Chief of Police of Arlington County (VA), where he reorganized the police department to facilitate the adoption of a community-based problem-oriented policing strategy. His early career was spent in the Jersey City Police Department where he was promoted from patrol officer through the ranks of sergeant, lieutenant, captain and inspector. He has served as the Chief of Police in Braintree, Massachusetts where he was credited with modernizing the department, and in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where he helped lead the city out of state-imposed receivership to its designation as an "All American City." In 2003, Chief Flynn received the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids' Champions for Children Award.

 Chief Flynn is a member of the board of directors for the Police Executive Research Forum and is a recipient of the prestigious Gary Hayes Memorial Award for Police Leadership. He holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York. Chief Flynn is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the National Executive Institute and was a National Institute of Justice Pickett Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Gilbert G. Gallegos, Retired Chief of Police, Albuquerque, N.M.

Prior to his appointment as Chief of the Albuquerque Police Department, Gil Gallegos was the National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, which - with over 290,000 members - is the largest law enforcement labor organization in the United States. He previously spent 25 years at the Albuquerque Police Department, retiring when he was a deputy chief of police. He then served as a Drug Enforcement Coordinator with the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, coordinating the drug enforcement efforts of a multi-agency task force including federal, state, and local agencies. In 1997, Chief Gallegos received a congressional appointment as a Commissioner to the Commission for Advancement of Federal Law.

Chief Gallegos serves on the boards of the New Mexico Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Governor's Drug Enforcement Advisory Council, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Center for Criminal Justice Studies, and the National Law Enforcement Credentialing Board, and is a member of the Latino Police Officers Association, the Chicano Police Officers Association, and the Fraternal Order of Police. He holds a B.S. in Criminology from the University of Albuquerque, and is a graduate of the Southern Police Institute Administrative Course, University of Louisville, and the FBI National Academy.

Janice Geddes, Executive Director, The Jenna Foundation for Non-Violence

Janice Geddes' involvement in criminal justice began in 1997 when her daughter, Jenna, was murdered. Subsequently, in an historic effort, her family pushed for and saw passage of "Jenna's Law," legislation which enacted the Victim Information and Notification Everyday (VINE) program, implemented determinate sentencing, and increased post-release supervision. Establishment of The Jenna Foundation for Non-Violence, headquartered in Syracuse, NY, immediately followed.

Geddes has been a member of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids since 1999. Widely regarded for her community and crime-prevention work, she is the recipient of the Jefferson Award, the Syracuse Post-Standard Achievement Award, the Women in Business Award, and was designated a "Woman of Distinction" in the 50th District of the New York State Senate. In 2005, Geddes was recognized by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids with the Champion for Children Award.

Geddes holds a degree in merchandising from Cazenovia College, and is a magna cum laude graduate of LaMoyne college. She serves on numerous crime and victims' advisory boards and committees, and is a co-chair of the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids New York office.

Sanford A. Newman, J.D., Founder, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

Sanford Newman is an attorney and founder of Fight Crime: Invest In Kids. Newman's interest in fighting and preventing crime began in 1983 when he and his wife were awakened by an intruder crouching between their bed and their newborn daughter's crib. He has since become one of the nation's leading experts on what works to prevent crime and violence. Together with former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and other law enforcement leaders, Newman founded Fight Crime: Invest in Kids in 1996, and served as its full-time CEO until 2004. Newman has authored or co-authored numerous reports on the crime prevention impact of gang prevention, bullying prevention, after-school programs, child abuse prevention and early childhood care and education.

Glenn F. Ivey, J.D. , State Attorney, Prince George's County, Md.

Elected in 2002, Glenn F. Ivey is the current State's Attorney for Prince George's County Maryland. A former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ivey served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1990 until1994. During his last two years in that office, he served under Eric H. Holder Jr., former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. While there, Ivey handled nearly 40 criminal jury trials, numerous appeals and grand jury investigations.

In 1983, Glenn graduated with honors from Princeton University and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986. He joined the litigation department of the prestigious Baltimore law firm of Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, followed by a move to Capitol Hill as senior legislative assistant to Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). His extensive experience includes serving as Chief Counsel to former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and as Counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee for Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD). He is a former Partner at the Washington law firm of Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas, Meeds and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.

In 1988, former Maryland Governor, Parris Glendening appointed Ivey as Chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission where he held jurisdiction over the electric, telecommunications and gas industries in the state. Now, as State's Attorney, he continues to help create a more collective and collaborative approach to rehabilitative justice, launched an aggressive community outreach program to work with community groups and local residents to make neighborhoods safer, and developed youth empowerment initiatives to help reduce juvenile crime by getting youth involved in learning life skills and in understanding the criminal justice process.

David Kass, President, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

David serves as the President of Fight Crime: Invest In Kids and directs their overall operations. Previously, David served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the U.S. Department of Housing, managing the agency's Congressional affairs office. He also worked on crime and children's issues as a staff person on Capitol Hill and for several nonprofits. David received his master's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs and his bachelor's degree from Amherst College.

BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS

Patrick V. Murphy, Former Police Commissioner New York City, Washington, DC, Syracuse, Detroit

In more than 51 years in law enforcement, Patrick Murphy has served as the Police Commissioner of New York City; Washington, DC; Syracuse; and Detroit - more major cities than anyone else in U.S. history. In between, he headed the federal government's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

Murphy later headed the Police Foundation for 12 years, producing seminal research on effective policing.

When Murphy retired from the Police Foundation, the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin noted that his "long-range impact on American policing nationally probably will be judged by students of police history as significant as that of J. Edgar Hoover." He is currently the Director of the Police Policy Board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and graduated from the FBI National Academy.

Murphy is widely considered to be the "father of community policing," and has written numerous articles on policing as well as teaching at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

His emphasis on hard-nosed research to learn what works and his commitment to implementing research findings have won international acclaim, including a special award from the Queen of England for his service in assisting Scotland Yard.