Cheryl Williams

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• Over 20 years of Solid Legal Experience.• Immense knowledge of city ordinances and state crim inal laws that are filed in Municipal Court.• Excellent knowledge of court policies and procedures; and case management techniques.• Excellent ability to communicate orally with defendants, witnesses, and the public in group settings to

give instructions or information, and to respond to questions.• Remarkable ability to visually observe people's behavior in a courtroom setting.• Ability to comprehend and make inferences from written material; produce written documents with

clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.• In-depth ability to conduct and control court proceedings, elicit pertinent informat ion, and confine

'Nitnesses and litigants to relevant issues.• Ability to appraise factual situations and make appropriate decisions promptly and in accordance with the

law.• Sound ability to manage the cases scheduled in the courtroom in an effective and efficient manner.

,JROFESSIO NAl EXPERIENCE

1999 - Present Municipal Judge, City of Dallas

Presiding over jury and bench trials on cases involving class c misdemeanors, ordinances, zoning, trafficviolations; arraignment of City inmates, arraigning juveniles, issue capias pro fine and alias warrants forclass c misdemeanors, ordinance, and traffic cases upon determination of probable cause.

Preside at the South Dallas Community Court located at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center which includedworking with the Dallas Police Department, Dallas County Sheriffs Department, and the POI/New Life non­profit in the New Life Opportunities/Prostitution Diversion Initiative docket on the first Wednesdayevening/ Thursday morning of each month.

Magistrate duties include reviewing arrest and search warrants presented by law enforcement personnelto determine if there is probable cause to issue the arrest or search warrant.

Exclusively preside over all juvenile cases from first appearance to a jury or non-jury trial.

• Supervise seven (7) case managers, all licensed social workers, who provide assessment andmanagement of juvenile defendant cases.

• Provide ongoing training of seven (7) case managers regarding the forms, policy andprocedures for municipal juvenile court and the utilization to improve juvenile court.

• Visit numerous schools throughout the metropolitan area to discuss juvenile laws with thestudents.

• 2002 Speaker for Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center Diversion Program AnniversaryCelebration.

• 2005 Speaker for Boys and Girls Club of Dallas Youth of the Year Banquet.

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• Inst it uted changes to the juvenile docket to bring the docket into alignment with the 2003

Juvenile Omnibus Legislative Bill.• Co-Presenter of CLE "Handling Juveniles in Justice, Municipal and Truancy Court" for Juvenile

Justice Series.• Presenter of CLE "Handling Juveniles in Municipal Court" to the Municipal Justice Bar

Association and the City of Dallas Attorney's Office - Prosecution Division.• Panelist for the 2009 Prostitution Diversion Conference hosted by the University of North

Texas.• Panelist and participant at the First International Community Court Conference sponsored by

the Department of Justice and Center for Court Innovation.

• Speaker at the West Dallas Community Center Teen Challenge, August 2012.

• Invited speaker regarding juveniles at community and county wide events.

Certificates/ClE - Completed training with Texas Municipal Courts Education Center,Advanced Criminal Law, Advanced Civil Trial Advocacy

1995-1999 Associate Municipal Judge, City of Dallas, Texas

Served in the absence of full time judges . Responsibilities included presiding over jury trials and trialsbefore the court in traffic, class c misdemeanors and ordinance cases, arraignment of City of Dallasinmates, and issuance of alias and capias pro fine arrest warrants.

1993-1999 Attorney at Law, law Office of Cheryl D. WIlliams, P.C.

Operated and managed full service law firm with areas of practice concentrating on personal inJury,criminal and juvenile law. Corporate counsel for small corporations handling employment issues,contracts, and litigation.

1992-1993 Associate Attorney, lorenzo Brown and Associates, PllC.

Management of the Fort Worth office handling personal injury and workers compensation litigation.

1989-1992 Enforcement Attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Represented the commission in investigative and civil proceedings for violations of federal securities laws.Instituted and won enforcements against companies in violation of federal securities laws and regulations.Key cases won: Litigation of Dallas-based firm for fraud. Closed Austin, Texas - Denver, Colorado firm forselling millions of dollars of unregistered stock. Litigation of Dallas-based, multi-million dollar financecompany for selling stock without a license.

Chery l Williams? :H~e Fhree

. '.~ UCA flONUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW

Juris Doctor May 1989smencan Jurisprudence Award - Estates and Trusts

SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY

l A. Political Science, Minor- Spanish, May 1986," ' ember of Eta Omega Chapter of Phi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society

1995. Sam Houston State UniversityCompleted 40 hours mediation course, received Certificate1990. National Institute for Trial AdvocacyReceived Diploma in Trial Advocacy

,' ROFESSIONAl MEMBERSHIPS AND AffILIATIONS:State Bar of Texas. Admitted 1992; State Bar of Missouri, Admitted 1989 (membership ­inact ive); Admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Northern District ofTexas; Member, College of the State Bar of Texas; National Bar Association, Judicial Council ;State Bar Association, Municipal Courts and Juvenile Section; Dallas Bar Association; J.l.

Turner Legal Association; Circle 10 Council of Boy Scouts of America. Chair, Mustang District;Life Member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;Member. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Cheryl Williams\1unicipal Judge.(_'ity of Dallas Municipal Court No. I and South Dallas Community Court

Education:Bachelor of Arts- Political Science Sam Houston State University. 1986Doctor of Jurisprudence. University of Missouri. Columbia School of Law. 1989

Service to the City of Dallas:

!()95 - 1999_\ppointed as an Associate Municipal Judge, City of Dallas, Texas.

I999- present:Appointed as a Municipal Judge (full-time) City of Dallas. Texas.Served as a Judge at the jail tram 200 I to 2004.

Served as a juvenile judge from 200 Iuntil present handling all juveniles whoreceive citations in the City of Dallas.

Oversaw the City of Teen Court program - peer court: trained students from thearea school districts who volunteered for the teen court program until 2009.In 2003. revamped the juvenile docket to bring the City of Dallas' juvenile dockets intocompliance with State law.As juvenile judge, supervised seven (7) case managers who provide assessments ofjuvenile defendant cases. Currently working with one licensed social worker who hasrevamped juvenile case management for juvenile defendants and is currently providingcase management ofjuvenile defendant cases.

Served as Presiding Judge of the South Dallas Community Court for the lastseven years. The South Dallas Community Court was selected by the Bureau of JusticeAdministration and the Center tor Court Innovation as a community court "Mentor" site,where other cities corne to learn how to implement and operate a community court. TheSouth Dallas Community Court serves the South Dallas! Fair Park area as a communityrestitution center for offenders who receive swift justice for various otfense most ofwhich are quality of life and zoning and ordinance violations.Served as the presiding Judge of the New Life Opportunity docket which is held at truck

stops.

Speaker to bar associations, schools. social and religious groups throughout themetropolitan area of Dallas/Fort Worth regarding juveniles in municipal court andcommunity court jurisdiction and cases.