ClERK'S OFFICE U.S. DIST. COURT
AT ROANOKE. VA
FILED
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUN 2 3 2014
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
IN RE: AMENDMENT TO THE ADVISORY )
COMMITTEE INTERNAL OPERATIONAL ) Standing Order No. 2014-6
GUIDELINES and CJA ATTORNEY PANEL )
APPOINTMENTS )
The court has received a report from the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Advisory Committee
recommending CJA attorney panel appointments. Inasmuch as the judges of the court have met to
consider the Committee's recommendations, it is now
ORDERED
as follows:
1. The Committee recommendations are adopted in part;
2. Effective July 1, 2014, the CJA panels for the Abingdon and Big Stone Gap divisions
of the court are consolidated, and the CJA panels for the Danville and Lynchburg
divisions of the court are consolidated. Each division, however, will continue to
maintain its own individual representative on the CJA Advisory Committee;
3. The Advisory Committee Internal Operational Guidelines shall be, and hereby are,
AMENDED so as to add, at the appropriate point in the Guidelines, the following
modification:
For the purpose of attorney appointments, effective July 1, 2014, the
Court has determined that consolidation of the panels for the
Abingdon and Big Stone Gap divisions and consolidation of the
panels for the Danville and Lynchburg divisions are necessary in
order to ensure an equitable distribution of case assignments. The
court will continue to appoint a panel attorney from each division to
represent the division on the CJA Advisory Committee as set forth
above.
4. Effective July 1, 2014, the division panels shall be, and hereby are, modified so as
to reflect the following attorney additions in place of those attorneys rotating off each
division panel:
Abingdon/Big Stone Gap divisions: William E. Bradshaw
Randall Eads
Matthew Felty
Gregory M. Kallen
Barry Proctor
Jay Steele
Gregory Stewart
Charlottesville division Charles Weber, Jr.
Danville/Lynchburg divisions: Michael Coleman Adams
Scott DeBruin
James Hunter, III
Michael Regan
Harrisonburg division Russell Bostic
Aaron Cook
Tracy Evans
Wynn Andrew Harding
Roanoke division L. Bradford Braford
Thomas Cullen
Melissa Friedman
Melvin Hill
Neil Hom
Patrick Kenney
Robert Rider
James C. Turk, Jr.
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5. The following attorneys are hereby recommended for the district's CJA Mentor
Program, assuming the attorneys wish to serve in this capacity:
Abingdon/Big Stone Gap divisions: Mary Katherine Crabtree
Danville/Lynchburg divisions: Michael Nicholas
Other attorneys who applied for the CJA panel, but who were not accepted at this
time, are also encouraged to apply for the CJA Mentor Program.
The Clerk shall send a copy of this order to each District Judge and Magistrate Judge of this
Court; to each member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel of this Court; to the Federal Public
Defender for this District; to the United States Attorney for this District; to the Circuit Executive;
and to the Defender Services Division of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
ENTER: June ~ , 2014.
Glen E. Conrad
Chief United States District Judge
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