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Herbert J. Hoelter, MSW
Herbert J. Hoelter is cofounder, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of NCIA. Mr. Hoelter is recognized as one of the country’s leading experts in sentencing and the federal prison system and in developing alternative programs to incarceration. He directs NCIA’s sentencing and parole services program, which has prepared cases in all 50 states, 75 federal jurisdictions, and three foreign countries. Mr. Hoelter has particular expertise in federal court and white-collar crime, having assisted in the representation of many of the insider trading, tax, securities and corporate fraud cases. He holds a Master of Social Work degree from Marywood College in Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Buffalo. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at American University and on the faculty of the National Judicial College. He has lectured on sentencing advocacy and reform for over 20 state and local Bar Associations and was the representative of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) before the United States Sentencing Commission on the subject of alternatives to incarceration. Mr. Hoelter has also served as co-chair of the NACDL post-conviction committee. He has appeared on 20/20, Crossfire, Good Morning America, Nightline and many other television and radio shows. He has written extensively on the U.S. criminal justice system and is co-editor of The Real War on Crime (HarperCollins, 1996) which advances promising solutions for criminal justice policy in the United States. He has authored articles for The Federal Sentencing Reporter, The Judges Journal, the American Bar Association’s Journal on Law Related Education, Federal Probation, The Champion, and The New England Journal on Civil and Criminal Confinement, as well as numerous legal newsletters. |