Seminar Presenters Gale M. Adams: James M. Ayers, II: Amy Baron-Evans: Kelly C. Boyle:

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1 Seminar Presenters Gale M. Adams: Ms. Adams is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina. She received her B.A. in 1981 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her J.D. in 1984 from North Carolina Central University, School of Law. Ms. Adams served as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) for the United States Navy from ; Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, North Carolina, ; and Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1992 to the present. James M. Ayers, II: Mr. Ayers received his BS from the University of South Carolina in 1987 and his JD from Campbell University Law School in He was in the United States Air Force Reserves until he started his law career. He received several awards in the Air Force including the Maintenance Technician of the Year Award in 1985 for the Fourteenth Air Force and Reservist of the Year for the Twenty-First Air Force in He worked as an associate and became a partner at Stubbs and Perdue, PA in New Bern. In 1997, he opened his own practice, Ayers & Haidt, PA, also in New Bern. Mr. Ayers practice focuses on criminal defense, civil litigation and business law in Federal and State courts. He is a Certified Mediator for North Carolina Superior Courts and a Certified Mediator for Equitable Distribution and Family Financial cases. He is a member of the ABA, NCBA, Craven County Bar Association, NC State Bar Judicial District 3B and Eastern NC Inn of Court. Amy Baron-Evans: Ms. Baron-Evans is Sentencing Resource Counsel for the Federal Public and Community Defenders. She represents the Defenders interests on sentencing policy, provides litigation support, and teaches sentencing advocacy. She has authored numerous articles and papers on federal sentencing, and other criminal law issues. She is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, clerked for the Honorable Hugh H. Bownes on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a partner at Dwyer & Collora LLP before joining the Defenders as Sentencing Resource Counsel in Ms. Baron-Evans is a former Co-Chair of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and of the United States Sentencing Commission s Practitioners Advisory Group. Kelly C. Boyle: Ms. Boyle began her Bureau of Prisons career in 1983 at FCI Petersburg, as a Unit Secretary. In 1987, she transferred to the Records Office at FCI Petersburg as a Legal Instrument Examiner. In 1988, she transferred to the Community Corrections Office in Richmond, VA in that same position, and was subsequently promoted to a Community Corrections Specialist. With the closing of the Community Corrections office in Richmond, VA in June of 1995, Ms. Boyle transferred to the Raleigh Community Corrections Office. In March, 2000, she was selected as the Community Corrections Manager for the Raleigh office. In September, 2001, she was

2 selected as the Management Center Administrator. This position oversees the Raleigh, NC and Nashville, TN Community Corrections Offices. Ms. Boyle is currently a certified instructor for the Offender Workforce Development System and Offender Employment Specialist training. Ms. Boyle resides in South Hill, VA and commutes to North Carolina daily. James B. Craven, III: Mr. Craven has practiced in Durham since 1969, after service as a law clerk in the Eastern District of Virginia and then with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. He is the husband of Sara, the father of Jamie, Joe and Will, and the grandfather of Olivia and Harris. As partial compensation for Tom McNamara having lured his son Joe away, Jim is now Of Counsel to the Federal Public Defender in Raleigh. His was trained, after a fashion, at the U.S. Naval Academy, UNC-Chapel-Hill, Duke Law School, and the Duke Divinity School, and is a retired naval officer, a lawyer and an Episcopal priest. Joseph H. Craven: Mr. Craven is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina. In the Raleigh Office. G. Alan DuBois: Mr. DuBois is the Senior Appellate Attorney with the Federal Public Defender s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He graduated from Duke University in 1984 and the University of Virginia School of Law in In 1989, after two years as a staff law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, he joined the Federal Public Defender s Office. Mr. DuBois recently spent nine months working in Washington, DC; he spent six months with the United States Sentencing Guideline Commission and three months with the Office of Defender Services. James E. Eldridge: Mr. Eldridge is President of Eldridge Law Firm, P.C. in Wilmington, NC. He graduate with a B.A. in Government from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1973 and obtained his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1986, where he was a Staff Member and published author, North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulations. The Eldridge Law Firm, a professional corporation engaged in the practice of law and concentrating in personal injury cases and land use matters, including zoning, development approvals and annexation issues. Joseph B. Gilbert: Mr. Gilbert is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He received his B.A. in English at the University of Texas at El Paso in 1975, and his M.B.A. from National University in San Diego in Mr. Gilbert graduated from Notre Dame Law School in He also served in the United

3 States Marine Corps from 1975 to 1993, when he transferred his active commission to a reserve commission as a Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. Gilbert s military duty assignments included four years as Appellate Defense Counsel, Navy-Marine Corps Appellate Review Activity, Washington, D.C. From 1993 until September of 2002, he was a partner with the firm of McNeil & Gilbert, of Jacksonville, North Carolina. Mr. Gilbert is admitted to practice in Indiana and North Carolina, and before the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina. Stephen C. Gordon: Mr. Gordon is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He has been with the Public Defender s Office since Prior to that, Mr. Gordon worked with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, in Atlanta, Georgia. He clerked on the North Carolina Court of Appeals for the Honorable Charles L. Becton and the Honorable Allyson K. Duncan. Debra Carroll Graves: Ms. Graves is the Senior Trial Attorney with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina and has been with the office since Thomas C. Manning: Mr. Manning is Senior Partner with Manning and Crouch in Raleigh, North Carolina. He received his B.A. in 1974 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his J.D. in 1977 from the University of South Carolina Law School. Mr. Manning is admitted to practice before the Supreme Courts of North Carolina and South Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina and the District of South Carolina, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Manning was Law Clerk to Chief U.S. District Judge John D. Larkins, Jr.,EDNC ( ); Assistant United States Attorney, EDNC, Civil and Criminal Divisions ( ); Secretary, Local Rules Committee, U.S. District Court, EDNC ( ); Pretrial Services Study Committee, U.S. District Court, EDNC (1986); Wake County Bar Association (Board of Directors ); Academy of Trial Lawyers (1990 Chair, Lawyers Assistance Committee, Criminal Section); North Carolina State Bar Criminal Law Specialization Committee Secretary and Criminal Law Examiner, N.C. State Bar Board of Legal Specialization ( ). Mr. Manning has lectured extensively and published numerous articles, including Impeachment, The Dilemma of the Defendant-Witness, 5 N.C.C.U. Law Review 56 (Fall 1982). James A. Tony Martin: Mr. Martin is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina in our Greenville, North Carolina office.

4 Thomas P. McNamara: Mr. McNamara is the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Mr. McNamara received his B.A. in 1961 from Duke University and his J.D. in 1964 from Wake Forest University. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney, EDNC, from and United States Attorney, EDNC, from Mr. McNamara was in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1976 until May 15, 2000, when he was appointed Federal Public Defender. The major emphasis of his private practice was federal criminal law. Andrea T. Stubbs: Ms. Stubbs earned her undergraduate degree from Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1996 and her law degree from Syracuse University College of Law in Syracuse, New York in She clerked for the Honorable James G. Glazebrook, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Florida in Orlando, from 2001 to 2004, when she became a Research and Writing Attorney at the Federal Public Defender s Office for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa through She served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Tampa office through 2008, when she moved to North Carolina. Ms. Stubbs is an Assistant Federal Public Defender with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh Kevin A. Tate: Mr. Tate is an Assistant Public Defender for the Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina, Inc., in their Charlotte Office. Edwin C. Walker: Mr. Walker is currently the First Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1976, and received his J.D. from Wake Forest University in Mr. Walker clerked for Magistrate Logan Howell in From 1980 to 1981, he clerked for W. Earl Britt, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Thereafter, Mr. Walker went into private practice until 1987, when he became an Assistant Federal Public Defender. Mr. Walker has served the Federal Public Defender s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina in several capacities during his tenure, including Acting Federal Public Defender. Jonathan W. Washburn: Mr. Washburn is a native of Wilmington, NC, having local ancestors on both sides of the family dating back to the 1700s. After graduating from Davidson College with honors as an Economics major in 1978, Jonathan attended graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill. With a UNC law degree and a Masters in Business Administration in 1982, Jonathan began practicing law in Wilmington. While developing an extensive real estate law practice, Jonathan directed more attention to commercial transactions. During 2003, he earned the Certified Commercial Investment Member ( CCIM ) designation awarded in San Antonio, TX in November 2003 by the CCIM Institute. Since April 2004, Jonathan has been working full time as a broker with Prudential CRES (now merged and operating under the name of Coldwell Banker Commercial).

5 Honorable William A. Webb: Judge Webb served in the U.S. Air Force from He received his B.A. in 1971 from the University of New Haven and his J.D. in 1974 from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Prior to his current appointment, Judge Webb was an Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County, PA; Senior Staff Counsel for the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC; Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Deputy Attorney General, Regional Director for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice; Commissioner for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC; Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina (twice); Deputy Secretary, General Counsel for the NC Department of Crime Control & Public Safety; and Federal Public Defender, Eastern District of North Carolina. Judge Webb has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina from October, 1999 to present.