Tom Langer started his career with the State of Alabama in September 1982 as a Corrections Officer with the Alabama Department of Corrections. In 1986, Tom changed job classifications from Corrections Officer to a Classification Specialist still working with the Department of Corrections. In July 1989, he accepted employment with the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles as a Probation and Parole Officer. Over the years he climbed the promotional ladder from Supervisor to District Manager to his current position as Division Director of the Interstate Compact Unit. Tom graduated from The University of Alabama in August 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and a double minor in Business and Social Work. In December 1998, he received a Juris Doctorate from Birmingham School of Law.

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Mr. Richard S. Tischner is the Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA). In this capacity, he leads the agency’s 850+ federal employees who uphold the agency’s mission of enhancing public safety, preventing crime, reducing recidivism, and supporting the fair administration of justice in close collaboration with the community.

In July 2018, President Donald J. Trump nominated Mr. Tischner to serve as the third presidentially-appointed Director of CSOSA. Mr. Tischner appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs in November 2018; and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate in January 2019. On February 11, 2019, Mr. Tischner was sworn into his six-year term in office by United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie K. Liu.

Mr. Tischner has been a public servant for more than 33 years. He has served as an attorney for the Federal Government of the United States at the Merit Systems Protection Board as well as the Federal Trade Commission. He has spent the last 30 years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice, most recently serving as the Chief of the Superior Court Division at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

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Joe Winkler has over 25 years of experience in Corrections. During his tenure with the Florida Department of Corrections he has advanced through the ranks starting as a Correctional Probation Officer to his current position as the Assistant Secretary of Community Corrections.

In his current position, Director Winkler is responsible for providing support and policy direction to approximately 3,000 staff who supervise over 165,000 individuals. In addition, he provides oversight to the Bureau of Interstate Compact/Probation & Parole Field Services and the Bureau of Community Programs & Victim Services.

Prior to his current position, Assistant Secretary Winkler has held several leadership positions in Community Corrections that have included a Probation Supervisor, Probation Senior Supervisor, Circuit Administrator in two Judicial Circuits, Northern Region Assistant Regional Director, Region 2 Director, and Director of Community Corrections. These assignments have provided him with valuable experience in critical agency missions within Community Corrections.

Assistant Secretary Winkler is a graduate of Saint Leo University where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice.

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Chris Moore has served as Interstate Compact Administrator/Commissioner for the State of Georgia since 2012. Chris began his career in Community Supervision in 1989 as a Probation Officer. In 1998, he moved to Central Office as a Field Support Specialist and his program area was Sex Offender Supervision. In 2005 he was promoted to Center Administrator of a Day Reporting Center and in 2009 he was promoted to Chief Probation Officer. Chris received his BBA from Mercer University in 1989. He is also a Certified P.O.S.T Instructor and a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor.

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A 13-year veteran of the Department of Corrections, Turner began his career working as a correctional officer at the Frankfort Career Development Center in 2005. In 2006 he promoted to a classification and treatment officer position at the facility. Shortly afterwards he transferred to the home incarceration program area at Central Office as the original central region classification and treatment officer. In 2008 Turner promoted to deputy compact administrator for the Interstate Compact Office where he helped build a solid foundation for the controlled movement of over 6,000 probationers and parolees across state lines. In this capacity, Turner was a key player in Kentucky’s transition to the Interstate Compact Offender Tracking System (ICOTS). He gained national recognition for his efforts toward ensuring all interstate compact policies and procedures are followed in accordance with statute. Turner took the initiative to spearhead the department’s DNA collection efforts during a difficult time in 2013. His unwavering commitment to this task was pivotal in that he not only coordinated the undertaking, but also played an instrumental role in updating and enhancing processes and procedures to establish a system of accountability across the state. Turner is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. In 2013 he graduated from the Commissioner’s Executive Leadership Program and later served as a mentor in the program. He received a DOC Deputy Commissioner’s Award in 2012 and was a co-recipient of the Deputy Commissioner’s Award for Support Services in 2018. Turner is an active member of the Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency (KCCD) and currently serves as the Capitol Chapter president.

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Deputy Commissioner Nathan Blevins worked his way through the ranks of Community Corrections at the Mississippi Department of Corrections to lead the division and serves with the distinction of having a sworn law enforcement officer background. He began as a probation and parole officer, also known as a field officer, in January 2003, and was promoted to Community Corrections Associate Director and then Community Corrections Director. Seventeen years later, he had become the leader. In addition to managing the supervision of individuals on supervision in Mississippi’s three Community Corrections Divisions, he is also in charge of the Emergency Response Teams.

Blevins was a member of the Mississippi State University Police Department for five years before joining the MDOC. He graduated the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy in Pearl. The Aberdeen native, who grew up in Caledonia, attended East Mississippi Community College, where he earned an As​sociate of Science Degree and received All-American honors while playing football under the renowned Coach Tom Goode. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and sociology at Mississippi State University. He served in the Mississippi Army National Guard for nine years.

Blevins, a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, is the recipient of numerous awards, including Employee of the Month and Employee of the Year Nominee for the MDOC. He also received Top Cop honors while serving in the academy and was nominated for Professional of the Year at MSU. He has completed several courses taught by the FBI and is trained in both basic and advanced SWAT.

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Maggie Brewer has spent over 27 years in state government and was named Chief
Deputy Secretary for the new N.C. Department of Adult Correction, moving over
from Community Supervision in January 2023. She oversees the divisions of
Rehabilitation and Reentry, Comprehensive Health Services, Educational Services
and Support Services.

Brewer began her career with the N.C. Department of Correction in November 1996
at Central Prison as a case manager working directly with offenders. She worked in
the diagnostic center at Polk Youth Institution (now Granville Correctional
Institution) prior to her transfer to Community Corrections.

In December 1998, Brewer was promoted to probation and parole officer in Wake
County. She worked her way up through the ranks as a Chief Probation and Parole
Officer, Judicial District Manager for Wake County and was named the Assistant
Division Administrator for Division II in April 2014. In this role, she oversaw
operations for 21 counties and assisted managers with day-to-day decisions that
impacted their respective counties.

In August 2018, she was promoted to Deputy Director for Community Corrections
with oversight of the operations of program administration.

Brewer has been a certified training instructor since 2001 and specializes in
firearms. She served as the vice chair of the Sex Offender Management Committee
in 2006. This committee guided the implementation of the Static-99 assessment
and Satellite Based Monitoring in North Carolina. In 2007, she was elected
president of the North Carolina Probation and Parole Association (NCPPA) and, in
2008, was the recipient of the NCPPA President’s Award. She remains active in the
association and currently serves as historian.

Brewer was appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to serve on the North Carolina Human
Trafficking Commission in 2021 and was recently appointed as chair of the
commission. On, March 1, 2023, she was named the NC Interstate Compact
Commissioner.

Brewer graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s in
political science and criminal justice. She is a graduate of the NCDAC Correctional
Leadership Development Program and the North Carolina Department of Public
Safety Executive Leadership Development Program through the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. She is currently
participating in the National Institute of Corrections Executive Excellence Series.

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Chris Hill, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Community Supervision, oversees felony probation and parole operations and community corrections programming, with responsibility for more than 1,100 TDOC employees and approximately 77,000 supervised individuals. Reporting directly to the Assistant Commissioner are the Field Services Administrator, the Probation/Parole Administrators, the Community Corrections Administrator, the Community Supervision ACA & Policy Director, and an Executive Administrative Assistant.

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