Officers

Co-chair    
Ari Mathé is an Assistant Public Defender in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit. Ari has been involved with incarcerated youth for over ten years, working as a mentor and advocate for children involved in the Louisiana juvenile justice system before moving to GA in 2004. Before becoming a juvenile public defender, Ari worked as legislative aide for Representative Mary Margaret Oliver in the GA General Assembly.

Co-chair
Lea Thompson is the Lateral Recruiting Coordinator at King & Spalding.
Lea began her career as a post-graduate law fellow with the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic and the Southern Juvenile Defender Center at Emory University Law School. She subsequently held positions in training and recruiting in the non-profit sector. Prior to becoming a committee co-chair, Lea served as a volunteer attorney for the One Child, One Lawyer program in Fulton County.

Secretary
Leigh Schrope is the Senior Appellate Supervising Attorney with the Georgia Pubic Defender Standards Council.
Celebration of Excellence Sub-Committee Chair
Rachel Davidson is a child advocate attorney with the Dekalb County Child Advocacy Center.
Child Advocate Awards Sub-Committee Chair
Laurie-Ann Fallon works as an associate to the Special Assistant Attorney General for Barrow County Department of Family and Children Services and for Dawson County Department of Family and Children Services through her work at the Law Offices of Ashley Wilcott.
CLE Sub-Committee Chairs
Trish McCann is the Managing Attorney of the Youth and Family Justice Division of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council.
Kirsten Widner is the Post-Graduate Fellow in Law at the Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic.