Advisory Committee

2024 Advisory Committee Members

The 1998 edition of Managing Notorious Trials provided the basic framework of information for the initial Advisory Committee to inform the creation of a website, High-Profile Cases in the 21st Century, in 2015. In 2024, members of a new Advisory Committee were convened to review, update and add to this new iteration of the website.

  • Judge Peter Cahill, Fourth Judicial District, Minnesota
  • Judge Clifton Newman, South Carolina Circuit Court
  • First Lieutenant Charles Taggart, Fairfax County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office
  • Captain Scott Luedtke, Arapahoe County, Colorado Sheriff’s office
  • Rebecca Matoska-Mentink, Kenosha County, Wisconsin Clerk of Court
  • Richard Lynch, Sixth Circuit, Michigan Court Administrator
  • Ben Luke, Chief Technology Officer, Georgia Judicial Council/Administrative Office of the Courts
  • Tim Tait, Former Director of Communications, Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County, Arizona

NCSC Staff

  • Paula Hannaford-Agor, Director of the Center for Jury Studies
  • DeShield Greene, Senior Court Management Consultant
  • Morgan Moffett, Senior Research Analyst
  • Molly Justice, Director of Communications and Marketing
  • Laney Snyder, Research Program Specialist