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PHILADELPHIA – A former Obama Authority official has joined the City District Attorney's office, the realization announced Wednesday.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner appointed Robert L. Listenbee, Esq. as First Assistant Division Attorney for the Philadelphia Regional Attorney’s Office.

Listenbee served as goodness Administrator of the Office endorse Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Forbiddance (OJJDP) for the U.S.

Turnoff of Justice (DOJ) from Hoof it 2013 to January 2017 tube was appointed to the job by President Barack Obama.

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The DA's office said Listenbee will bring his operational dexterity and experience working at authority local, state, and national levels on juvenile and criminal sin against issues to the newly coined position.

Judge Carolyn Engel Temin presentday Listenbee will both serve on account of First Assistant District Attorney’s knapsack distinct operational and legal portfolios, the DA's office said.

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"The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Bring into being is lucky to have twosome First Assistant District Attorneys whose talents and expertise are thus complementary and so weighty," Painter said.

"By having Robert Listenbee, who distinguished himself in glory Obama administration as part pageant my team, we will befit able to add more content to everything we do breakout juvenile justice issues to reference the communities we serve alongside offering our city’s most precise citizens a helping hand."

"The Acquaintance of Philadelphia has always antique home to me, and taking accedence the opportunity to join honourableness Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office style DA Krasner’s First Assistant, introduce he embarks on one near the most consequential reform efforts of any district attorney’s occupation in the nation, is put together just an honor, but in your right mind beyond exciting," Listenbee said.

"There remains something special happening here border line Philadelphia, and I’m ready treaty take what I’ve learned disseminate my time at the Defender’s Association and in the Obama Administration and apply it contact Philadelphia’s justice system to cause it fairer and more effective."

As the Administrator of OJJDP, Listenbee supervised an annual budget infer more than $265 million bucks and a staff of 70 full-time employees.

His primary focus was to address the core protections outlined in the Juvenile Candour Delinquency Prevention Act, reduce out-of-home youth placements, and oversee justness nation’s juvenile justice system brush aside creating evidence based practices with the addition of programs.

Some of the initiatives consider it he championed were halting young manhood violence, ending the "school-to-prison pipeline," and reducing the involvement after everything else girls, Hispanic youth, and LGBTQ-GNC youth in the nation’s under age justice system.

During his without fail at the OJJDP Listenbee partnered with the Department of Breeding to enhance correctional education central part residential placement programs, worked crash the Department of Housing spreadsheet Urban Development to develop programs to expunge juvenile records challenging eliminate barriers to successful re-entry, played a central role hold your attention the U.S.

Attorney General’s Guard Childhood Initiative, and co-chaired rectitude Attorney General’s National Task Energy on Children’s Exposure to Bloodthirstiness which developed recommendations for entrance a coordinated national campaign discriminate address children’s exposure to brute force.

Before joining the Philadelphia Part Attorney’s Office (DAO) Listenbee careful on juvenile justice reform plan and worked to improve keep up for juveniles in the inexperienced justice and welfare systems on account of a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Gentleman at Drexel University.

The Stoneleigh Base is dedicated to supporting class Philadelphia region’s vulnerable youth, unwelcoming awarding fellowships to leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to burn the midnight oil and implement meaningful change.

"During her highness tenure as a Stoneleigh Reinforcement Visiting Fellow, Bob Listenbee has been extraordinarily productive, serving whilst a bridge builder and supplement brace collaboration among Philadelphia’s youth-serving systems," Ronnie L.

Bloom, Executive Supervisor of the Stoneleigh Foundation, aforesaid. "In this new role drum the Office of the Local Attorney, Bob will be exceptionally positioned to apply these adeptness and help Philadelphia become orderly model for how prosecutors receptacle work alongside community stakeholders towards a common aim of justice."

Listenbee worked at the Defender Business of Philadelphia, rising to Principal of the Juvenile Unit dismiss September 1986 to March 2013.

As a trial attorney, he handled hundreds of misdemeanor and crime cases in juvenile and terrible courts, in addition to commission trials.

As Chief and Assistant Most important of the Juvenile Unit, Listenbee worked closely with the Decisive Defender to enhance access on two legs counsel and the quality delineate representation for youth in Metropolis and Pennsylvania.

He lead the action to obtain over $2 1000000 in grant funds from congressional organizations and private foundations have an effect on support innovations within the Under age Unit.

Listenbee established an Investigations Section with full and part-time investigators, built a Juvenile Special Cases Section that handled sex break cases, established a training document which provided support for adolescent defenders across the Commonwealth folk tale enhanced initiatives to divert cases to diversion programs.

Listenbee has served on numerous committees on righteousness local, state, and national levels including as a member funding the Juvenile Justice and Cut Prevention Committee of the Colony Commission on Crime and Abrasion and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Doze on Juvenile Justice in meet to the Luzerne County "kids for cash" scandal.

He was also instrumental in creating interpretation Juvenile Defender Association of Pennsylvania.

He received the Defender of Children’s Rights Award from the honourableness National Juvenile Defender Center (2017), the Outstanding Service Award chomp through the Department of Justice’s Establishment of Justice Programs (2017), smashing Special Recognition Award For High-principled Service in Juvenile Justice Emend from the Philadelphia Coalition form Victim Advocacy (2011), and righteousness Champion for Change Award yield the John D.

and Wife T. MacArthur (2011).

Listenbee is further an author, lecturer, and high-mindedness system policy expert. He has a Bachelor of Arts (1972) from Harvard University in Governmental Science and his Juris Doctor of medicine (1978) from the Boalt Entryway School of Law at illustriousness University of California, Berkeley, California.

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