Robert Henke
Robert Henke began his public service career with the State of Indiana in 2007. He joined the Indiana Office of the Attorney General in 2013 as a deputy attorney general, and is currently the assistance section chief in civil appeals, in which position he oversees child welfare appeals and advises the client agency on trial…
Rontear Farmer
Rontear Farmer is the Grand Jury Director and an Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office where she manages the day-to-day operations of the Special Grand Jury. In her role she is responsible for the empaneling of the statewide grand jury, ensuring consistency and compliance with the law, policies and best practices,…
Melissa Wright
Melissa Wright is an Assistant Attorney General and the Section Chief of the Consumer Protection Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. In this role, Melissa provides legal advice and assistance with all matters involving the section and with Ohio’s consumer protection laws, including related bankruptcy and multistate matters. Melissa obtained her Bachelor of Arts…
Melodie M. Mabanta
Melodie M. Mabanta is barred in Maryland and the District of Columbia, though currently on inactive status in D.C given that she practices exclusively in Maryland as an Assistant Attorney General. She has been a litigator for over twenty years. In private practice, she litigated complex cases in Maryland’s state and federal courts and in…
Michael S. Rubin
Michael Rubin is a Deputy Attorney General in New Jersey’s Department of Law & Public Safety, Division of Law. He has been a government lawyer for more than twelve years and also worked in two mid-sized law firms with diverse practice areas. He represents New Jersey’s public transportation agency in the areas of labor and…
Monica N. Anderson
Monica N. Anderson is the Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Correctional Law Section of the California Attorney General’s Office, which litigates civil rights actions challenging the constitutionality of prison conditions. Ms. Anderson currently supervises over 100 attorneys and 20 paralegals throughout the state of California. Through litigation of class action cases, Ms. Anderson has…
Mary L. Lucasse
Mary L. Lucasse practices in the Environmental Division of the North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ) as a Special Deputy Attorney General. Prior to joining the NCDOJ, she had extensive complex civil litigation experience working for the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and in private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mary has represented plaintiffs and…
Marc Abrams
Marc Abrams is Assistant Attorney in Charge of the Civil Litigation Section of the Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ), where he is lead attorney for employment litigation. He joined ODOJ in 2002 after a decade in firms in New York, Philadelphia and Portland, and a decade in sole practice and as a pro tem judge…
Margaret A. Cotoia
Assistant Attorney General Margaret A. Cotoia is the Director of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, which provides continuing legal education programs that meet the practice needs of New Jersey government lawyers. Margaret maintains overall responsibility for over 150 programs a year, recruiting instructors and developing curriculum for the AGAI’s lecture programs, supervising litigation…
Judy Zeprun Kalman
Judy Zeprun Kalman retired in 2019 after serving more than thirty years in state government, most recently as General Counsel at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. In that role, she provided legal counsel to the Executive Bureau on personnel, contracts, conflicts of interest, and ethics issues and assisted in developing internal policies, guidelines, and procedures,…
