John Baldwin (IA)

John Baldwin was appointed Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections on April 25, 2007. Mr. Baldwin, a Ft. Dodge native, has been with the Iowa Department of Corrections since 1977 and served as Deputy Director of Administration since 1983. Along with former DOC directors Hal Farrier and Paul Grossheim, he helped establish the Department of Corrections when they split from the Department of Human Services in 1983.

Some of his accomplishments have included:
• Department leader over multiple building and expansion projects including new facilities at Newton, Ft. Dodge and Clarinda.
• Development of Iowa Offender Based Management System (ICON)
• Appointed to the Criminal Justice Information System Committee to develop a sharing plan of all offender and court data among all criminal justice agencies in the state.
• Overseeing the two year Durrant study of the Department of Corrections.

John received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in Political Science and Public Administration from Iowa State University.

John is married with two grown sons.

Matthew Cate (CA)

Matthew Cate was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 16, 2008, as Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Cate was appointed as Inspector General by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in March 2004 and subsequently confirmed by the state senate to that position. As Inspector General, Mr. Cate had been responsible for public oversight of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Since 2007, he had also served as the chairman of the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board and in that capacity had been responsible for reporting to the state legislature on the progress made by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in fulfilling its obligation to provide effective rehabilitative programs to California’s inmates and parolees.

Prior to becoming California’s Inspector General, Mr. Cate served as a state and local prosecutor. From 1996 to 2004, he served as a Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice. In that capacity, he supervised a team of trial and appellate prosecutors, managed a criminal trial caseload of political corruption matters and provided counsel to county grand juries. In 2003, while working on federal fraud and corruption matters, Mr. Cate was cross-designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Cate was a Deputy District Attorney for Sacramento County, last serving in a special assignment prosecuting juvenile rape and murder cases. Prior to joining the public sector, Mr. Cate worked as a business litigation attorney with Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer. He has also held several positions as an instructor of legal and law enforcement-related topics, including standards training for peace officers.

Mr. Cate earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Oregon School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Linfield College, where he was an Academic All-American. He is a member of the California State Bar.

Harold Clarke (VA)

Harold Clarke grew up in the Canal Zone in Panama. After college in Nebraska, he joined the Nebraska Department of Corrections in 1974 as a counselor. He rose through the department, becoming warden at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in 1987 and the Director of Corrections in 1990, becoming the first employee promoted from within the agency to that position.

In August of 1990, he was appointed Director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, a position he held until 2005, when he began his role as Secretary of the Washington State Department of Corrections. Last November (2007), Clarke took on yet another new role, this time on the East coast as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. On November 15, 2010, Harold was named the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections.

He is currently serving as the immediate past president of the American Correctional Association and on the Executive Committee of ASCA. He is a former member of the Doane College Board of Trustees, former board chair of Lincoln Public Schools Foundation Board of Directors. He also served as president of the Association of State Correctional Administrators. His awards include the Legacy Award from the Association of Women Executives in Corrections in 2007, the Pioneer Human Services Partner of the Year Award in 2006, the Michael Francke Award from the Association of State Correctional Administrators in 1997, the Citizen of the Year Award from the Nebraska Association of Substance Abuse Directors in 1996 and the Dedicated Correctional Service Award in 1994.

Harold Clarke was appointed by Governor Robert F. McDonnell as Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections effective November 15, 2010, overseeing a Department comprised of three major operational areas: Operations, Community and Administration. At the time of his appointment, the Agency had 11,602 employees across the Commonwealth. As of December 31, 2010, the Department has 29 major institutions, 8 field units and 7 work centers overseeing 31,900 inmates, and 7 detention and 4 diversion centers as well as 43 Probation Districts overseeing 59,517 probationers.

Brian Fischer (NY)

Brian Fischer was appointed Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (now NY Department of Corrections and Community Supervision) by
Governor Eliot Spitzer effective January 1, 2007. The state Senate unanimously confirmed him on March 12, 2007.

Mr. Fischer leads the nation’s fourth-largest state prison system. He oversees an agency that employs 31,000 workers and houses approximately 63,500 inmates in 69 correctional facilities plus the 850-bed Willard Drug Treatment Campus.

Mr. Fischer began his career with the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission in 1968, working as an Aftercare (Parole) Officer. In 1975, he transferred into the Department of Correctional Services with the title of Assistant Director, Drug Treatment Center. During his initial years with the Department he served as a Deputy Superintendent in several correctional facilities including the opening of the Downstate Correctional Facility which provided “separation services” to prepare inmates for their release.

From 1981 until 1991 Mr. Fischer was involved in several projects that involved regionalization, he worked on an inter-governmental agency task force, and was the director of the Department’s Division of Support Operations in Albany.

In 1991 he was appointed as the Superintendent of the Queensboro Correctional Facility and a Supervising
Superintendent. While the
Superintendent position called for coordinating the development of the inmate work release program and the conversion of Queensboro into a pre-release, re-entry facility, the Supervising Superintendent position
required his oversight of daily operations of seven prisons in the New York City area.

Mr. Fischer was appointed Superintendent of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 2000 while continuing to serve as the
Supervising Superintendent for the state prisons located in New York City. While at Sing Sing, he was twice nominated by the former Commissioner for the Warden of the Year Award with the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents, and will be awarded that honor this summer at the American Correctional Association conference.

In addition to his positions as the Sing Sing Superintendent and a Supervising Superintendent, Mr. Fischer was involved in a number of presentations and task forces dealing with issues related to correctional management and programmatic
initiatives. They include a “Tools Needed to Succeed” presentation, “New Horizon in Re-Entry” panel speaker, Rockland County Jail Advisory Committee on Mental Heath member, “Community Orientation Preparation Program” presentation, opening remarks for the “Collaboration to Strengthen Transitional Planning for HIV nmates,” panel moderator for “Changing the Mission of Corrections; Re-Thinking Hiring and Promotion Standards in Corrections,” panel member for the “Practical Issues in the Relations Between Wardens and Corrections Counsel,” and a panel presenter for “Meshing Security and Program: Community-Based Organizations and Corrections.”

Mr. Fischer received recognition by a number of community groups and programs including, The Criminal Justice Award, in Honor of Benjamin Ward, presented by the NYS Minorities in Criminal Justice, 2006.

Recognized by the NY Theological Seminary for special support of their Master’s Degree in Professional Studies
Program at Sing Sing, the New York Theological Seminary’s 2006 Urban Angel Award Banquet.

Scholarship in the name of Superintendent Brian Fischer for former inmates who have used their education earned at Sing Sing in helping formerly incarcerated persons. Awarded by Hudson Link for Higher Education, 2006.

Mr. Fischer has been an adjunct professor at both Pace University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also Vice President of the New York Corrections Historical Society, a member of the American Correctional Association, the North American Wardens and Superintendents Association, the New York Corrections and Youth Services Association and until his appointment, the New York State Association of Correctional Facility Superintendents.

Mr. Fischer is a native of Rockland County and has a wife and two grown sons. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in
Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling.

Justin Jones (OK)

Justin has 34 years of criminal justice experience. He has served in numerous capacities since beginning his career with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in September 1977, to include Probation and Parole Officer; Warden; Regional Director of Institutions and Deputy Director of the Division of Community Corrections. He was appointed Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2005.
Justin serves on numerous boards and association committees. Below are just a few of the organizations which he serves:
Reentry Committee Chair for the Association of Correctional Administrators
Board of Directors for Council of State Governments Justice Center
Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma
Board of Directors for Oklahoma Employees Credit Union
Board of Directors for Military Thunderbird Youth Academy
Commissioner for Correctional Accreditation for the American Correctional Association

Robert Lampert (WY)

Robert O. (Bob) Lampert is a Marine Corps veteran with more than 32 years of correctional experience, including military and state service. He came to Wyoming from the Oregon Department of Corrections, where he worked as superintendent of the largest correctional facility in the northwest and as assistant superintendent at Oregon’s only maximum-security institution. He began his position as director of the Wyoming Department of Corrections on November 10, 2003.

Before joining the Oregon prison system, Director Lampert retired from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice following a 20-year career that saw him rise through the ranks from correctional officer to senior warden. While in Texas, he worked at nine different facilities and was personally charged with developing and implementing several innovative programs for high-risk inmates.

During his first two years of service with the Wyoming Department of Corrections, Director Lampert was able to obtain nearly $139 million in funding for new construction and the expansion of existing facilities, the majority of which was spent on adding education, programming and treatment space. He was also successful in guiding the legislature through a site selection process and approval for a new 706-bed prison that is uniquely designed to house and meet the needs of inmates with the highest medical, mental health, substance abuse, sex offender, or other special treatment needs. He was also successful in increasing authorized staffing levels in the agency by 32%, gaining P.O.S.T. certification for correctional officers and supervisors, and obtaining statutory law enforcement retirement eligibility for parole agents.

Director Lampert was born in Newcastle, Wyoming and is a graduate of Steven’s High School in Rapid City, South Dakota. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in criminology and corrections, as well as a master’s of business administration, from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He also earned a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Houston and is licensed to practice law in Texas.

George Lombardi (MO)

Missouri Governor Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon nominated George A. Lombardi to the Director of the Department of Corrections on December 18, 2008. The nomination was confirmed on January 29, 2009. Lombardi became the 6th Director to lead the Department since Corrections became its own cabinet-level state agency in 1981.

Mr. Lombardi previously served as the Director of the Division of Adult Institutions for 18 years. He was responsible for 21 adult correctional institutions throughout Missouri encompassing 8,600+ staff and 30,500 inmates. He is a past Warden of two correctional institutions and a 33 year veteran of the Missouri Department of Corrections. Mr. Lombardi served on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Criminal Justice Task Force for the Missouri Association of Social Welfare. He is a past President of the Missouri Corrections Association and has served as an auditor for the Commission of Accreditation for Corrections. He has lectured on criminal justice matters at the American Corrections Association, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, colleges and universities and civic organizations. He has also co-authored two articles:

“Mainstreaming Death-Sentenced Inmates”
“Peer Interaction Training for Correctional Administrators”

Mr. Lombardi organized the first annual National Conference on Prisoner Reentry with Central Missouri State University. He was recognized at the December, 2002 Commencement at the Central Missouri State University with a Distinguished Alumnus Award. Mr. Lombardi has a B.S. and M.S. in psychology from the Central Missouri State University.

Gary Maynard (MD)

Gary D. Maynard brings more than 30 years of extensive correctional administrative experience to the job of Secretary of Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Since 1987 he has served as the Director of the corrections systems of three other states – Iowa, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.
Mr. Maynard was previously President of the American Correctional Association. He is a member of the Association of State Correctional Administrators where he serves as Director of the Southern Region, Chairs the Clearinghouse Committee and serves on the Executive, Performance Measures and Reentry and Community Corrections Committees.
Mr. Maynard was a member for 32 years of the Army National Guard of the United States and served as the Adjutant General of the Oklahoma Army and Air National Guard. He retired in 1995 as a Brigadier General, U.S. Army.
A few of the awards and recognition received include:
• Courage and Valor Award, Oklahoma Department of Corrections, 1997
• Roy Wilkins Meritorious Service Award, NAACP, 1993
• Distinguished Alumni, East Central University, Ada, OK, 1994
• Hall of Fame, Field Artillery Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, OK, 1993
Mr. Maynard holds a Masters Degree from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor’s Degree from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

He and his wife Donna live in Towson, Maryland.

A.T. Wall (RI)

Prior to this appointment Mr. Wall served in the capacity of Assistant Director for a number of years. In this position he was responsible for the central management of Departmental operations and functioned as the Director’s second-in-command.

Mr. Wall’s career in corrections began in 1976 as a Probation Officer. After his graduation from Law School, he served as a Prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and then joined the Vera Institute of Justice, where he was Director of a sentencing project for chronic offenders convicted by the New York City Courts. A native of Rhode Island, he returned to his home state in 1985 and worked in the Governor’s Office on policy issues in the areas of corrections and criminal justice. He was tapped by the Director of Corrections to join the Department in 1987 as Assistant Director. Mr. Wall was named Interim Director in 1999 and became Director in 2000.

Mr. Wall received a Bachelors of Arts Degree from Yale University in 1975 and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1980.