From the Chron:
Commissioners Court has appointed the 15 members of the first Harris County Public Defender Board, which will oversee the public defender office scheduled to launch early next year.
The members are:
Commissioner El Franco Lee
Commissioner Sylvia Garcia
Judge Mike Anderson, criminal district courts
Judge Mike Schneider, juvenile district courts
Judge Jean Hughes, county criminal courts
Bob Wessels, manager of county courts
Clay Bowman, administrator of district courts
George McCall Secrest, Jr., Houston Bar Association
Andrew G. McGee, Houston Lawyers Association
Joel Edward Salazar, Mexican American Bar Association
Lawrence D. Finder, attorney at Haynes and Boone
Mark Hochglaube, indigent defense attorney
Kathryn M. Kase, senior staff attorney at Texas Defender Service (Disclosure: Kase is the wife of Chronicle Editor Jeff Cohen)
Rev. James Edward Nash, Sunnyside Place Community Development Corporation
Marcia Johnson, Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University
- Wikipedia: Public Defender.
