Meeting Speaker for October 24, 2011

SACRAMENTO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY JAN SCULLY

Jan Scully was first elected district attorney in November 1994 and began serving her fifth term in January 2011. From the beginning, Jan has been a leading advocate for victims of violent crime and has served as the chair of the California District Attorney Association’s Victim Rights Committee.  She remains committed to building bridges between the diverse citizens of Sacramento County and the criminal justice system, creating a Multi-Cultural Community Council and Citizens Academy program.   Under Jan’s leadership, the county developed a first-of-its-kind in the nation Domestic Violence Multidisciplinary and Elder Death Interdisciplinary Review Team and has received national recognition for her model Community Prosecution Unit, where prosecutors do their work in the community rather than in the courtroom to solve quality-of-life issues in Sacramento neighborhoods.

In 2005, Jan was the first woman elected to serve as president of the California District Attorneys Association and in 2006 was president of the Institute for the Advancement of Criminal Justice. She chairs the California Council of Criminal Justice, Sacramento County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, co-chairs the Greater Sacramento Area Task Force on Hate Crimes, and serves on a number of other criminal justice, public safety and community advisory boards. In July 2011, Jan became the first woman to serve as president of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA). She previously served as NDAA's vice president and has served as a board member since 2005.