These are the members of the commission:
* Judge Jonathan Lippman (chair) — former Chief Judge of the State of New York and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Of Counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP.
* Richard M. Aborn — President of the Citizen’s Crime Commission of New York City.
* Juan Cartagena — President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
* Hon. Matthew J. D’Emic — Presiding Judge of the Brooklyn Mental Health Court.
* Mylan L. Denerstein — Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
* Robert B. Fiske, Jr. — Senior Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
* MaryAnne Gilmartin — President and Chief Executive Officer of Forest City Ratner Companies.
* Colvin W. Grannum — President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp.
* Dr. Michael P. Jacobson — Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance and Chairman of the Board of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency.
* Seymour W. James, Jr. — Attorney-in-Chief of The Legal Aid Society of New York.
* Hon. Judy Harris Kluger — Executive Director of Sanctuary For Families.
* Peter Madonia — Chief Operating Officer of the Rockefeller Foundation.
* Glenn E. Martin — President of JustLeadershipUSA.
* Julio Medina — Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Exodus Transitional Community, Inc.
* Ana L. Oliveira — President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Women’s Foundation.
* Rocco A. Pozzi — Probation Commissioner, Westchester County Department of Probation and former Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Correction.
* Laurie Robinson — Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and former Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
* Stanley Richards — Board Member of the New York City Board of Correction and Senior Vice President at The Fortune Society, Inc.
* Hon. Jeanette Ruiz — Administrate Judge of the New York Family Court.
* Peter G. Samuels — Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP.
* Dr. Alethea Simon — President and Executive Director of Greenhope Services for Women, Inc.
* Herb Sturz — Board Chair of the Center for New York City Neighborhoods.
* Jeremy Travis — President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the former Director of the National Institute of Justice.
* Nicholas Turner — President and Director of the Vera Institute for Justice.
* Darren Walker — President of the Ford Foundation.
* Kathryn Wylde — President and Chief Executive Officer of the Partnership for New York City.
* Kenneth H. Zimmerman — Director of U.S. Programs of the Open Society Foundations.
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