Advisory Board

Judge Edwards is the President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and Supervising Judge of the Santa Clara County Juvenile Dependency Court in San Jose, CA. He founded the Juvenile Court Judges of California and is the co-chair of the Family and Juvenile Law Committee of the California Judicial Council. He is a nationally recognized expert the author of numerous articles and books on juvenile and family law.

Honorable Leonard P. Edwards

Dr. Gonzalez is Chief of Neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD from Harvard and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He did post doctoral work in Molecular Biophysics at MIT, internship and residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He specializes in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the human brain.

R. Gilberto Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D.

Judge Lederman is the Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court in Miami-Dade County, Florida. She has been a member of the National Research Council and Institute on Medicine's (NRC/IOM) Committee on Family Violence Interventions and serves on the Board of Children, Youth and Families and the Juvenile Crime Panel of the NRC/IOM. Judge Lederman is a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College, former President of the National Association of Women Judges and presently serves in the House of Delegates of the ABA. Governor Lawton Chiles awarded the Governor's Peace at Home Award to Judge Lederman in 1997 for her work in the field of domestic violence.

Honorable Cindy Lederman

Judge Macias is the Associate Judge of the 65th Judicial District Children's Court, El Paso County, Texas. Under her tenure, the Children's Court has been designated as a model court of the NCJFCJ. Her maternal family has lived in the El Paso area for six generations. She is a University of Texas graduate with a degree in Psychology and holds a Master's degree in Child Development from the University of Oregon, where she also completed required coursework for a Ph.D. in Child and Family Therapy. In 1989, she received a Juris Doctorate from St. Mary's University School of Law.

Honorable Patricia A. Macias.

Dr. Grisso is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he is the Coordinator of the Law and Psychiatry Program. He is also Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. He has authored numerous books and journal articles in clinical, applied developmental, and forensic psychology. He developed the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument for screening mental health needs of youth entering juvenile justice facilities that is currently used in about one half the states in the U.S.

Thomas Grisso, Ph.D.

Dr. Brewster is an African American filmmaker and psychiatrist specializing in forensic issues of adults and children of ethnic minorities. His films include “The Keeper” and “The Killing Zone”; both are semi-documentaries of African American experience. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Medical School. He did his Psychiatry fellowship at Harvard and is currently affiliated with Columbia University in New York.

Joseph C. Brewster M.D.

David Steinhart is Director of the Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program. He has been instrumental in the development of California laws removing children from adult jails, establishing alternative-to-detention and shelter programs for youth, expanding mental health treatment options for minors, and creating new state funding streams for county-level youth programs. He has authored books and articles on topics including the children of incarcerated women, youth violence prevention, juvenile peer courts, effective treatment programs for juvenile offenders and risk assessment for arrested youth. He earned his law degree at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt) and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.

David Steinhart, J.D.

Dr. Arredondo is the Director of the OCDMH and the founding director of SOLOMON. He conducts research reviews on a broad range of topics and provides consultations and training to professionals across the country. His primary focus is the transfer of knowledge of early childhood brain development, the effects of trauma, and current neuropsychiatric thinking about children's mental health in the context of the dependency and delinquency systems. Dr. Arredondo was formerly Medical Director of EMQ Children and Family Services and a member of the clinical teaching faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

David Arredondo M.D.