Task Force Roster and Structure

To successfully implement TREC’s recommendations, we have organized ourselves into six, strategy-oriented committees. See committee structure and roster details below:

To view the assignments of recommendations to the committees, please click here.

For a compilation of Task Force email correspondence, please click here.

Co-Chairs

Co-Chair
The Honorable Anita S. Earls
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of
North Carolina

Co-Chair
Eddie Buffaloe, Jr.
Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety

Judicial Committee

The Honorable Alan Thornburg
Superior Court Judge, Buncombe County

Ms. Nisha Williams
Legal Director, North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Professor April Dawson
Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law, NCCU School of Law

The Honorable Regina R. Parker
Chief District Court Judge, Second Judicial District

The Honorable Jeffrey Nieman
District Attorney, Prosecutorial District 15B

Ms. Emily Coward
Director, Inclusive Juries Project, Duke University School of Law

Legislative Committee

The Honorable Marcia H. Morey North Carolina House of Representatives	The Honorable Mujtaba A. Mohammed North Carolina Senate
Sheriff Clarence Birkhead Sheriff, Durham County	Chief Johnny Jennings Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department

Local Policy Committee

The Honorable Josh Stein
Attorney General, North Carolina

The Honorable Mike Hawkins
Former Transylvania County Commissioner

The Honorable Kim Scott
District Attorney, Prosecutorial District 7

Ms. Deborah Dicks Maxwell
President, North Carolina NAACP, New Hanover NAACP

Ms. Tracie Campbell
Senior Health Manager, Office of Violence Prevention, Mecklenburg County Public Health

The Honorable Preston Blakely
Mayor, Fletcher

Members

Ms. Angela Bryant Assistant Secretary of Equity and Inclusion, NC Department of Health and Human Services	Lieutenant Billy Gartin Raleigh Police Department
Mr. Henderson Hill Senior Counsel, ACLU Capital Punishment Project	Mr. Jeff Smythe Director, NC Criminal Justice Standards Division
Mr. Kerwin Pittman Founder, Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services	The Honorable Quentin Miller Sheriff, Buncombe County
Mr. Jamie Markham Senior Policy Advisor, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction	Mr. Talley Wells Executive Director, NC Council on Developmental Disabilities