11/22/06
SURJ
Names Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh as Board Chair
Stand Up
for what’s Right and Just (SURJ), a statewide grassroots organization
dedicated to reforming Delaware’s criminal justice system and attacking
the causes of crime, announces its newly elected Board officers. The
Honorable Louis J. Freeh will serve as Board Chair. From
1993 to 2001, Mr. Freeh served as Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. He has also served as a Special Agent of the FBI and as
an Assistant United States Attorney and United States District Judge
for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Freeh will replace
Governor Dale E. Wolf, who is retiring after serving four
years in this capacity; he has agreed to stay on the Board as a Vice
Chairman. Also elected as Vice Chairs are the
Honorable Joseph T. Walsh, retired Delaware Supreme
Court Justice and the Reverend Canon Lloyd S. Casson, the rector
of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew.
Other
members of the SURJ Board are: Victor F. Battaglia, Sr., Esq., a
senior attorney with the law firm of Biggs & Battaglia; O. Francis
Biondi, Esq., former President of the Delaware State Bar
Association and the Delaware Bar Foundation; Timothy J. Brandau,
Ph.D., Executive Director of the YMCA Resource Center;
Christopher F. Buccini, a partner in the Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG);
Edmund N. “Ned” Carpenter II, Esq., former deputy attorney general
and a former President of the Delaware State Bar Association; Joseph
M. Dell'Olio, Executive Vice President of Child Inc.; Thomas A.
Foley, Esq., a lawyer in the private practice of law and a
former deputy attorney general; Samuel Latham, administrator of
the United Auto Workers (UAW)-Daimler-Chrysler Region 8 Family Training
Center and UAW international representative; Janet A. Leban,
Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Justice; Marlene
Lichtenstadter, former Chair of the Delaware Board of Parole;
Matthew J. Lynch, Jr., Esq., Senior Vice President of Wilmington
Trust’s Wealth Advisory Services; Judy Mellen, former Executive
Director of the Delaware American Civil Liberties Union; Russell W.
Peterson, Ph.D., former Governor of Delaware and former Chair of
the National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals;
Carl Schnee, Esq., of counsel in the Wilmington law office of
Bifferato, Bifferato & Gentilotti and former U. S. Attorney for
Delaware; Shirley O. Seibert, Director of Lutheran Public Policy
Delaware and Board President of the American Association of University
Women Delaware; Samuel L. Shipley, founder of Shipley Associates
Inc., a Wilmington advertising and public relations firm; Bruce M.
Stargatt, Esq., a member of the American Bar Association Board of
Governors and President of the Delaware Bar Foundation; and Rodman
Ward, Jr., Esq., former president of the Delaware State Bar
Association currently practicing at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and
Flom, LLP in Wilmington.
SURJ
enters its sixth year with more than 3,000 members throughout
Delaware. SURJ is committed to educating policy makers and the
public-at-large of measures proven to ensure a higher quality of
justice, promote public safety and reduce corrections costs. SURJ has
fought for and continues to fight for the repeal of Delaware’s unjust
mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws and has also begun to move
forward on a problem of increasing concern both nationally and in our
state: how to reduce recidivism and ensure the successful transition of
ex-offenders from prison to our communities.
