Past Annual Conferences & Job Fairs

39th Annual Conference & Job Fair — Enduring Pillars of Justice: Policing Penology, and Prosecutorial Discretion

JULY 31, 2022 – AUGUST 5, 2022

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2022 Agenda

2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE — The State of the Black Prosecutor: Empowered & Emboldened to Change the Narrative

Monday, August 17 – Friday, August 21, 2020
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. EDT each day

Each Online Session is 90 minutes
CLE: 6 Credits for Full Series

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AGENDA CLE INFORMATION CONFERENCE BROCHURE

Due to COVID-19, NBPA is offering an alternative to the 2020 Annual Conference that was to be held in Chicago, IL. This modified virtual learning series will highlight topics relevant to the social and political landscape currently affecting our practice, appropriately titled, “The State of the Black Prosecutor: Empowered & Emboldened to Change the Narrative.”

36th Annual Conference & Job Fair

Encourage. Empower. Engage.: Black Prosecutors Serving as the Agents of Social Justice.

July 14 – 20, 2019
Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia

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Conference Agenda

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35th Annual Conference & Job Fair

The NBPA thanks all who attended and presented.

NBPA Newly Elected Board 2018-2019
NBPA Newly Elected President Keith Lamar
Honorable Norman S. Early Jr. at Denver Conference

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34th Annual Conference & Job Fair

The NBPA thanks all who attended and presented.

CLE Materials

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33rd Annual Conference & Job Fair

Thank you to all of the attendees, speakers and sponsors of the 2016 NBPA Conference in St. Louis.

Ferguson and the Future Panel
Rev. Starsky Wilson, Chair of Ferguson Commission, and Gabriel Gore Esq, Commission Member
General Session
Awards Luncheon
Nominations and Elections Chairs Jennifer Friend-Kelly and Keith Lamar
Members from the Cook County (Chicago) State’s Attorney’s Office
New York Chapter
President Nigel Farinha receiving 20 years of service in prosecution award with Past Presidents Melba Pearson and Bruce Brown
President William Jorden
President William Jorden accepting Chapter of the Year Award for Louisiana with Past Presidents Melba Pearson and Bruce Brown
President William Jorden
President William Jorden accepting Regional Director of the Year Award for his work as Southern Regional Director 2015-2016, and Chapter of the Year Award for Louisiana
Executive Board Member of the Year Award
Executive Board Member of the Year Award to Erika Gilliam-Booker for her work as Treasurer, with Past Presidents Melba Pearson and Bruce Brown
NBPA Foundation Inaugural Scholarship winner
Immediate Past President Melba Pearson and then Treasurer Erika Gilliam-Booker with the NBPA Foundation Inaugural Scholarship winner Adriele Douglas from Albany Law School
NBPA Acknowledgement Award
Immediate Past President Melba Pearson presenting NBPA Acknowledgement Award to Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey for her years of support
Richland County (South Carolina) Solicitor Dan Johnson, with Paulette Edwards and April Sampson
Improving Community-Police Relations
Impact of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Panel
Prosecuting Police Shootings Panel
With moderator Sonja Brown, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard Callahan, and St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch
General session
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit
Judge Bernice Donald, with United States Attorney, Middle District of Tennessee David Rivera
Profiles in Courage Awardees
Orlando and Rochelle Cook, with Assistant St. Louis Circuit Attorney Mary Pat Carl
NBPA Presidential Award of Excellence
Immediate Past President Melba Pearson with Cyrus Vance Jr, Manhattan District Attorney and Recipient of the NBPA Presidential Award of Excellence
General session
Cyrus Vance Jr, Manhattan District Attorney with Manhattan members
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, with Cyrus Vance Jr, Manhattan District Attorney and Norm Early Awardee Prof. Kimberly Norwood
Prof. Kim Norwood presenting on Implicit Bias
NBPA Youth Conference, discussing encounters with police
18th Judicial Circuit (Colorado) District Attorney George Brauchler, presenting on the Aurora Theatre Shooting case
Presenter Patrick Muscat, of Wayne County District Attorney’s Office (Detroit)
Members touring the St. Louis Historic Courthouse, home of the Dred Scott decision
NBPA Gala
With incoming President William Jorden, flanked by Past Presidents Carmen Lineberger and Melba Pearson
NBPA Gala
NBPA Gala
Trailblazer Awardee Judge Jimmie Edwards, with Conference Co-Chair Joe Whitfield
US Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo) giving keynote address at gala
US Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo) with Conference Co-Chair Jessica Sinkfield
2016-17 NBPA Board and NBPA Foundation Board
Conference Co-Chairs Joe Whitfield and Jessica Sinkfield
Regional Director of the Year Janice Walker for her work in the Great Lakes Region

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See press coverage of the conference here

National Prosecutors Association Discusses Police Shootings

Ferguson, police shootings focus of panel at national conference

NBPA CLE Conference & Event Schedule

2016 CLE Materials

NBPA 32ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE & JOB FAIR 2015

DC 2015 was epic! The seminars and events were informative as well as fun. Additionally our NBPA Youth Conference worked with close to 70 local teens over two days. NBPA members donated backpacks filled with school supplies. With the theme of H.Y.P.E. (Helping Young People Excel), we hope to hear great things from these future leaders.

2014-15 board and conference chairs with Attorney General
2015-16 NBPA Board
United States Attorney General
Loretta Lynch
Attorney General with President
Loretta Lynch, Melba Pearson
Charles County State’s Attorney
Tony Covington
Montgomery County Police Chief
Tom Manger
Caught in Crossfire Panel
Director of Public Prosecutions of Jamaica
Paula Llewellyn
New York County District Attorney
Cyrus Vance Jr.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner
Charles Ramsey
General Session
General Session
US Attorney For District of Maryland
Rod Rosenstein
head feds panel
International Terrorism Panel
With Attorney General Rodrigo Dorantes Salgado from Morales, Mexico
Winnebago County State’s Attorney
Joe Bruscato with Los Angeles Chapter President Gilbert Wright
La Paz (Arizona) County Attorney
Tony Rogers
Profiles in Courage Luncheon
Profiles of Courage Awardee Wounded Warriors Project
Represented by Dan Nevins
Past President
Carmen Lineberger
Conference Chairs
Kelly Harris, Afolabi Olosunde with Past President Wayne McKenzie, New York Chapter President Nigel Farinha
Banquet
members at banquet
Banquet Keynote Speaker
Acting US Attorney for District of Columbia Vincent Cohen Jr
Regional Director of the Year
LaKeisha Fields (Northeast Region)
members at banquet
Executive Board Member of the Year
Treasurer Erika Gilliam-Booker & Melba Pearson
Norm Early Award honoree
Patricia Smoot
Nelson Jones, 30 Years of Prosecution
Thurgood Marshall Honoree
Judge Margo Brodie
President, Past President with DeKalb County Solicitor General
Melba Pearson, Bruce Brown with Sherry Boston
Trailblazer Award posthumously to Richard Mangum
Presented to his wife Karol and son Derren