Criminal Justice Task Force Members

 
Dawn Jeglum Bartusch
Assistant Professor, Department for Sociology
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana

Sue Berry
Defense Attorney
Wilmington, North Carolina

Jeff Bishop
Financial consultant
Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Rev. Oliver Brown
Prison Chaplain
Minersville, Pennsylvania

David Ellis
Clinical Psychologist
Princeton, West Virginia

Rev. David Fredrickson
Professor of New Testament
Luther Seminary
St. Paul, Minnesota

Hillary Freeman
Co-director, Community Justice Project
Minneapolis Police Dept.
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Judge Daniel Joy
New York State Supreme Court (retired)
Jamaica, New York

Linda Manson
Office of Admissions
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rev. Derek Nelson
Assistant Professor of Religion and Co-Director of Thiel Global Institute
Thiel College
Greenville, PA

Cynthia Osborne (Task Force Chair)
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Program Development
Lutheran Services in America
Baltimore, MD

Jane Otte
Executive Director, Prisoner and Family Ministry
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Marion, IL

Nancy Reed
Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney. Page County, Virginia
Attorney, Reed & Reed, P.C.
Luray, VA

Rev. Steve Rice
Pastor, First Lutheran Church
Miles City, Montana

Anamaria Schmid
Homemaker
Ojai, CA

Robert Tuttle
Professor of Law; David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion
George Washington University
Washington, DC

Rev. H. Julian Gordy
Bishop
Southeastern Synod, ELCA
Atlanta, Georgia


ELCA Governance Body Advisors
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Rev. Victor Thasiah spacer 10x10 Assistant Director for Studies

Staff Consultants
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Loretta Horton spacer 10x10 Director for Poverty Ministries Networking
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