Curriculum Vitae of Professional Education Admitted to Practice Cara Lee Neville Hennepin County District Court 300 South Sixth Street Minneapolis, MN 55487 Phone: (612) 348-8901 Fax: (612) 596-8901 Email: caralee.neville@courts.state.mn.us. J.D. Degree, William Mitchell College of Law 1975 State of Minnesota 1975 U.S. District Court 1976 8th Circuit Court of Appeals 1976 U.S. Supreme Court 1980 Professional Employment Professional Activities AMERICAN BAR ASSN. Judge, Hennepin County District Court 1983-present; All matters of Civil and Criminal and Juvenile, unlimited Jurisdiction Chair, RAI (Risk Assessment Instrument for juveniles in custody) Committee 2006-present Past Chair, Hennepin County District Court Civil Law Committee Past Chair, Hennepin County District Court Case Flow Management Committee Presiding Judge, Hennepin County Mental Health Court 1995-96 Presiding Judge, Hennepin County Probate Court 1993-96 Adjunct Professor, William Mitchell College of Law 1979-82 Asst. Hennepin County Public Defender, Senior Attorney Asst. Hennepin County Attorney Prosecutor, Felony Criminal Division Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct 2003-2007 Judges Advisory Committee of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility 1992-97, 2006-07 Chair, Ethics & Professionalism Committee of Judicial Division Chair, Coalition for Justice 2003-2006 Justice Center Coordinating Council 2003-2006 Board of Governors 2000-2003 Executive Committee 2002-2003
Chair, Program and Planning Committee 2002-03 Program and Planning Committee member 2000-2003 Strategic Planning Committee 2000-02 Liaison to: Tort and Insurance Section Standing Committee on Environmental Law Domestic Violence Commission The Future of the Profession Committee 2002 Nominating Committee 1997-2000 HOUSE OF DELEGATES Delegate, ABA House of Delegates (1986-present elected by MN State Bar Assn. and Hennepin County Bar Assn. 1997-2000; 2003-07 Drafting Committee of the House 1989-90, 2006-07 Issues of Concern to the Professional Committee, 2005-06 Minnesota State Delegate 1997-2000 Nominating Committee, Special ABA Presidential Appointment 1995-96 OTHER Judges Advisory Committee of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility 1992-97, 2006-07 Committee on Scope and Correlation of Work 2002-03 Fund for Justice and Education Council 2002-03 President-Elect Initiative Committees 2002-03: General Planning Committee Access to Legal Services Planning Group Unified Court Planning Group Judicial Selection Campaign Planning Group Standing Committee on Independence of the Judiciary 1997-2000 ABA Commission on Judicial Selection Standards 1999-2000 Committee on Judicial Campaign Finance 1998-99 National Student Criminal Trial Advocacy Competition Advisory Board, John Marshall Law School, Chicago 1990- present CEELI Central East European Law Initiative. Co-authored proposed rules of law on judicature for judges in the Republic of Belarus Coalition for Justice, Vice-chair, Criminal Justice improvements 1995-96 ABA Presidential Task Force: Committee on Crime and Violence, Vice Chair 1994-96
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECTION Chair 1995-96 Chair, Long Range Planning Committee 1994-95 Chair, Task Force on Violent Crime by and Against Children 1995-96 Special Task Force on Drugs and the Criminal Justice System 1990-91 Executive Committee 1993-97; Governing Council 1985-86, 1988-91; Chair, Outreach Committee; Chair, Long Range Planning Committee; JAC/CJS Liaison; Committee on Funding the Justice System; Defense Services Committee Member; Special Advisor to the Chair of Criminal Justice Section on Attorney Specialization; Vice-Chair, Planning Committee; Vice Chair, Providing Defense Services; Vice- Chair, Economics of Law Practice Committee; Vice-Chair Specialization Committee; Liaison to ABA, Criminal Justice Section for MN State Bar Association JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION DIVISION Chair Ethics and Professionals Committee 2006-07 Delegate to National Conference of State Trial Judges Assembly 1988-2001; 2004-2006 Nat'l Conf. of State Trial Judges, member 1986-present Task Force on Judicial Resources 1991-93 Liaison from JAD to Criminal Justice Section 1989-90 TORTS AND INSURANCE SECTION Standing Committee on Law and Public Service 1998-2000, 2003 - present ABA Tips 2003 present Laison from Board of Governors 2000-2003 INTERNATIONAL LAW SECTION Vice Chair Criminal Law Committee 2006-07 LITIGATION SECTION Evidence Committee Products Liability Committee BUSINESS LAW SECTION
Member OTHER LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS American Bar Foundation - Fellow State Chair 1999-present Life Fellow 1992-present Fellow 1986-92 American Judicature Society Board of Directors 2001-2005 Member 1986-present National Association of Women Judges President 1991-92 Strategic Planning Committee 2006-07 Co-Chair, Annual Convention 2002; Annual Convention Education Committee 2001-02; Nominating Committee 1997-98, 2000-01; Honoree of the Year Committee 1997-98; President Elect 1990-91; Vice-President 1989-90; Secretary 1988-89; Board of Directors 1983-85, 1986-92; Chair, Long Range Planning Committee Douglas K. Amdahl Inn of Court President 1996-97; Member 1993-present Minnesota State Bar Association Co- chair, Katrina Relief Committee, 2005-06 Board of Governors 1981-84, 1986-2002 Judicial Selection Conference Committee 2001; Pro Se Litigant Committee 1996-98; ABA Delegate, House of Delegates 1990-96; Criminal Law Section, Chairperson 1978-79; Executive Committee; Subcommittees on: Expungement, Prison Reform, New Rules of Evidence, Revision of Criminal Code, Sentencing, Corrections, Grand Jury Reform, Specialization Judicial Plebiscite Committee (S.Ct. Vacancy); Alternate to Board of Governors 1979-81 Hennepin County Bar Association Nominating Committee 1980, 1990, 2005-present Delegate to ABA House of Delegates 1986-90, 2002-present Governing Council 1981-84, 1986-90, 2002-present; Probate and Estate Forms Committee 1992-93;
Environmental Law Committee 1987-present:, Criminal Law Committee 1983-present; Bench & Bar Committee 1988-99 Minnesota Women Lawyers Association President's Special Advisory Committee 2000-present; Secretary 1981-82; Treasurer 1980-81; Member 1974- present William Mitchell College of Law WMCL - Women in the Law Committee, 2000-present Year 2000 Project Committee 1999-2000 Alumni Association: Board of Directors 1977-78; Secretary 1979-80; Co-Chair, Membership Committee 1976 Minnesota District Judges Association Judicial Election Committee 2001-02; 2005-present Delegate to ABA National Conference of State Trial Judges 1988-92, 1998-2000; Board of Directors 1988-89; Secretary 1988-89; Member 1987-present International Academy of Trial Judges 2000-present International Association of Women Judges 1992-present National Conference of Women's Bar Associations Board of Directors 1993-95 American Inns of Court Nominating Committee; Justice Louis Powell Award 1995 Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee on Assessment of Indigent Defense Services Sponsored by a grant from U.S. Justice Department, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), and National Legal Aid and Defender Assn. (NLADA) 1995-96 Women Judges' Fund for Justice Board of Directors 1986-92 Executive Committee and Secretary 1988-89 Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association President 198-3-; Vice-President-1-982 Secretary 1981-82; Treasurer '19'80-81; Board of Governors 1978-83; Chairperson, Education Committee 1981-82;
Chairperson, Legislative Committee 1980-81; Co-Chair, Criminal Law Committee 1977-78; Executive Director 1974-75 Hennepin County Law Library Board of Trustees 1987-1991 Minnesota State Bar Foundation, past Board of Directors National District Attorneys Association 1975-78 Minnesota County Attorneys Council 1975-78 Minnesota Association of Women in Criminal Justice Executive Committee 1979-80 American Trial Lawyers Association 1975-83 Teaching and Lectures International Delegation Member and Lecturer, People's Republic of China 2006 Delegation Leader and Lecturer, People's Republic of China 2002, People to People, lawyers and judges Delegation Leader and Lecturer, CUBA 2000, People to People, lawyers and judges International Bar Association Violence Against Children and Sentencing, Edinburgh, Scotland 1995 Criminal Sentencing, Berlin, Germany 1996 = Trinity' r'ollege, Dulolin, Ireland, Voir nire 19'96 University College, Galway, Ireland, Student Lecture on American Criminal Justice System Presiding Judge, Trial Advocacy, Criminal Justice Section, ABA, Dublin, Ireland 1989 National Trial Advocacy, Harvard Law School, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006 (gue t teacher for one week during fall semesters for Professor Charles Ogletree) National Conference of Chief Justices 2005-2006, Model Rules 6
of Judicial Conduct, Salt Lake City, UT, New York, N.Y., Washington D.C. Midwest Regional Conference Women in the Law, St. Louis, MO 2006 APRL Association, Professional Responsibility Lawyers Model Code of Judicial Conduct 2005, 2006, Naples, FL, Chicago, IL National Association of Women Judges "After White; Judicial Speech" 2002, Model Judicial Code 2006 Independence and Accountability: Balancing Core Democratic Values in the Judiciaries of Mexico and the United States, Austin, Texas 2001 Judicial Independence, Nat'l Press Club, Washington, D.C. 1999 Problems in Financing Judicial Campaigns, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1999 Judicial Selection and Judicial Campaign Finance, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 1999 Judicial Independence, League of Women Voters of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999 Lecturer/Panel Member, ABA Meetings or on behalf of ABA Philadelphia, PA; Toronto, Canada; Honolulu, HI; Boston, MA; Annapolis, MD; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Washington, D.C.; Miami, FL. Various topics, including judicial ethics, independence of the judiciary, judicial campaign finance, plea negotiation, judicial selection, criminal law, domestic violence, and prosecutorial ethics; Constitution and Bylaws and Functions of Board of Governors and its con-imittees American Inns of Court Ethics Panel Lecture, Washington, D.C. 1992 National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada Faculty Advisor for General Jurisdiction Trial Judges 1987 Minnesota Hennepin County Bar Association, Separation of Powers 2006
Minnesota District Judges Association, Judicial Ethics 2004, 2006 Minnesota Criminal Justice Institute Sixth Amendment Right of Confrontation 2006 Spriegl and Impeachment Evidence 2005 Evidence 1998 Amdahl Inns of Court Funnies on the Bench 2005 Minnesota Judicial Training (training new judges) University of Minnesota Law School 1994-present Minnesota State Bar Association, Humphrey Institute, Judicial Elections 2001 National Practice Institute, Current Issues, Criminal Justice Reform 1999 Minnesota. Institute of Legal Education, Minneapolis, MN Chronic Pain Syndrome 1999; Guardianships and Conservatorships 1994-95; Probate 1993-95 Minnesota District Judges Association Judicial Elections, Code of Conduct 2006 Judicial Ethics 2004 Bioethics 1995 Minnesota Trial Lawyers View from the Bench 20 years later, Alexandria, MN 2004 Trial Tips from the Masters, Alexandria, MN 1998 Women in Trial Law, Minneapolis 1998 Views from the Bench_ 1998 Civil Pretrials and Settlement Conferences 1993 Living Legends - Civil Rule 11 1991 Also: Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines, Good Faith Exception to Exclusionary Rule, Fourth Amendment, Scientific Evidence, Frye tests, Women in Litigation, Voir Dire Minnesota Judicial Education Faculty, various topics, including judicial ethics, civil trial management; judicial advocacy Minnesota Veterans Home, Ethics Committee Education Forum, Neuroleptic Medications and the Law 1995-96 CLE Lectures for Advanced Legal Education
Hamline Law School, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of U.S. Constitution Hamline University Law School Trial Tactics, Trial Judge, Critique Trials Hennepin County Bar Association, Annual Probate and Estates Update 1993, 1994, 1995 Minnesota Criminal Law Trial Skills Program (NITA) Bemidji State College, Teacher 1984-90 Metropolitan Conservators and Guardians, Guardians' and Conservators' Authority to Give Consent to Neuroleptic Medications William Mitchell College of Law, Clinical Programs, Moot Court and Trial Practice, guest lecturer St. Thomas College, Women in Criminal Justice Minnesota Women Lawyers 1976-present, numerous and various topics, including Women in Litigation, Women in the Courtroom, Tips from the Bench Radio and Television Various programs on the courts and other topics, including inter alia: You and the Law Television: Judicial Independence and Ethics (Chicago, IL); National Press Club, Judicial Independence, Washington, DC; Financing Judicial Campaigns, National Public Radio; PBS - volunteer guardianship programs; O.J. and criminal trials, KSTP; color commentary: The Menendez Brothers' trial, Court TV, New York, NY Honors and Awards Outstanding State Chair Award, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, 2007 Professionalism Award, Hennepin County Bar Association, 2006 GRAVIN Award, Co-chair Katrina Relief Committee, Minnesota State Bar Association, 2006 Wornan-ofFirsts - William Mitchell College of Law - 2006 President's Award, Minnesota State Bar Association, June 2002 9
Excellence in Service Award, presented at the Annual Meeting of the ABA Judicial Division by the National Association of Women Judges, 2000. Awarded to individuals who have excelled in advancing the goals of NAWJ through their contributions to fairness in the administration of justice One of the 100 Most Distinguished Graduates of William Mitchell College of Law one of the "100 WHO HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE" during the 100-year history of the school, 2000 Who's Who in America Who's Who in American Law Who's Who of American Women Named one of the Outstanding Young Women of America 1977 Named the outstanding Young Woman of MN 1977 *West Publishing Company's "Hornbook Award for Scholastic Achievement" for ranking first in law school senior class 1975 Law School Activities William Mitchell College of Law President, Student Bar Association 1974-75 Student Board of Governors 1973-75; Staff writer, "Opinion" newspaper 1974-74 Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, Treasurer 1974-75 Recipient of Certificate of Appreciation 1973 American Bar Association, Law Student Division, Member Publications Numerous and various materials for CLE programs. Presidents' columns for: law school, Minnesota Trial Lawyers, Criminal Justice Section of the ABA, National Association of Women Judges, and other articles for bar journals COMIlltirtity, Personal St. Louis Park nooster flub and Civic Activities Laura Sedgwick Memorial Fund Award Committee 10
Minneapolis Women's Rotary Club Hennepin County Law Library, Board of Trustees St. Thomas Law School Student Mentor American Cancer Association; American Heart Association Minnesota Association of Women in Criminal Justice St. Louis Park High School, student teacher in criminal law, racial issues in the law, court systems, 1997, 1998, 1999 American Saddlebred Association Tri-State Horsemen Association Minnesota Saddlebred Association American Horsemen Association