SURJ Adds Board Member (12/15/06)
SURJ Elects New Officers  (11/22/06)
SURJ Adds Board Members (12/6/05)
SURJ Adds Board Members (12/3/04)
SURJ Adds Board Members (10/2/03)
SURJ Expands Board and Elects Officers (1/1/03)
 

Board of Directors:  Brief Biographies

Victor F. Battaglia, Sr., Esq. was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1960 and is a senior attorney with the law firm of Biggs & Battaglia.  He is a native of Wilmington, Delaware.

O. Francis Biondi, Esq. has served as president of the Delaware State Bar Association and the Delaware Bar Foundation and is currently a member of Governor Minner’s Strategic Economic Development Committee.  He has also served as chairman of the Crime Reduction Task Force, vice chairman of the Delaware Agency to Reduce Crime, and co-chairman of the Commission on Delaware Courts 2000.

Timothy J. Brandau, Ph.D.,  Executive Director of Child Inc., has been in social services for more than 35 years.  Prior to his current position, he served as Executive Director of the YMCA Resource Center and as Chief of Community Services for the State of Delaware Division of Youth Rehabilitative Services.

Christopher F. Buccini is a partner in the Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG), where his responsibilities include overseeing acquisitions and redevelopment projects.  Prior to working for BPG, he was the Director of Acquisitions, and Senior Vice President of Barrow Street Capital, LLC, in New York. He is also a former vice president of Eastdil Realty.

Charles Butler, Esq. was an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, PA and a Deputy Attorney General in Delaware for ten years. He is now engaged in the private practice of law.

Edmund N. Carpenter, II, Esq. is a retired attorney, and former director and president of Richards, Layton & Finger. He has also served as deputy attorney general, president of the American Judicature Society, and president of the Delaware State Bar Association.

The Reverend Canon Lloyd S. Casson is the rector of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, which provides spiritual leadership to church members and the greater community.

Joseph M. Dell’Olio served as the Executive Vice President of Child Inc. from 1973 to 2007.  He is past executive director of the Delaware Agency to Reduce Crime (now the Delaware Criminal Justice Council) as well as the Delaware Council on Crime and Justice (now the Delaware Center for Justice).

The Hon. Joseph G. DiPinto is the Director of the Office of Economic Development for the City of Wilmington.  He served on the Wilmington City Council from 1973-87 and in the Delaware General Assembly as a State Representative from 1987-2007. He is also a former Development Programs manager for the DuPont Company

Thomas A. Foley, Esq. is an attorney in private practice of law devoted to criminal defense. He is also a former deputy attorney general.

The Honorable Louis J. Freeh served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation From 1993 to 2001.  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.

Samuel Lathem President of the AFL-CIO-Delaware, is currently an administrator at the United Auto Workers (UAW)-Daimler-Chrysler Region 8 Family Training Center, as well as a UAW international representative.

Janet Leban has been the Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Justice since 1993.  She served as the first chair of SURJ. Prior to coming to Delaware, she was on the staff of the Pennsylvania Prison Society for ten years, where she was the executive director during her last two years.

Marlene Lichtenstadter chaired the state Board of Parole from 1991-2002 and served as a probation/parole officer for the Department of Correction before moving to the Delaware Correction Center as an inmate classification officer and chair of the statewide Inmate Classification Committee.  She also served as management analyst for the Department of Labor and as director of special court services in the Delaware Family Court.

Judy Mellen is the former executive director of the Delaware American Civil Liberties Union.  She received the Delaware Bar Association Liberty Bell Award for her work improving state policy towards juvenile offenders, abused and neglected children and educating homeless children.

Russell W. Peterson, Ph.D. served as Governor of Delaware from 1969 to 1973.  He chaired the National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, and also served as former president of the National Audubon Society.

Carl Schnee, Esq. is of counsel in the Wilmington law office of Bifferato, Bifferato & Gentilotti.  He has been in private practice for 40 years and has served as U.S. Attorney for Delaware from 1999-2001.  He is former chair of the Delaware Criminal Justice Council and of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Delaware, Inc.

Bruce Stargatt, Esq. is a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors, current President of the Delaware Bar Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and American College of Trial Lawyers.  He also served as president of the Delaware State Bar Association and chairman of the Delaware Supreme Court Rules Lawyers Advisory Committee.

The Honorable Joseph T. Walsh has recently retired as a Delaware Supreme Court Justice.  He has also served as Vice Chancellor of the Court of Chancery and as a Delaware Superior Court Judge.

Sam Waltz, APR, Fellow PRSA, is an early-retired DuPont Company senior public affairs executive and former State Capitol Bureau Chief of the News Journal papers, who has operated his own strategic consultancy Sam Waltz & Associates Counsel since 1993.  He is an adjunct faculty of the University of Delaware who also served as the elected President and CEO of his industry’s international professional society.

Rodman Ward, Jr., Esq. is an attorney at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom, LLP in Wilmington.  He is also a former president of the Delaware State Bar Association.

Dale E. Wolf, Ph.D. is a former Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Delaware.  He chaired the first Drug and Alcohol Abuse Coordinating Council for Delaware.  He is also the former Group Vice President of the DuPont Company.