Vickie Pochelle Whitney
Ms. Whitney is a Deputy Attorney General V in the Torts & Condemnation Section in the Sacramento office of the California Attorney General. She joined the AGO in 2000, after 11 years as a business and real estate litigator in San Diego. Ms. Whitney tried several high-profile cases in federal trial and appellate courts, as…
Vernon L. Harris
Vernon L. Harris was born in Chicago, IL, and moved to Phoenix, AZ, at the age of 12. He graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice in 1987. Upon graduating from the Arizona State University College of Law in 1990, Vernon became a gang prosecutor with Maricopa County Attorney…
Steven Gard
Steven Gard is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Court Mediator who practiced the majority of his more than 40-year legal career in the areas of securities litigation and arbitration. He has authored many articles and spoken on securities topics at legal education and securities industry seminars. He has also served as an arbitrator and…
Rontear Pendleton
Rontear Pendleton is currently the Deputy Attorney General at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Prior to returning the Office Ms. Pendleton was the General Counsel at the Department of Labor Standard (DLS) where she served as the Chief Legal Advisor for the agency. Before transitioning to DLS she was the Grand Jury Director and an…
Robert Henke
Robert Henke began his public service career with the State of Indiana in 2007, working with the Indiana Department of Child services (DCS). While at DCS, Robert first served as trial counsel and then as deputy general counsel over trials and appeals. When the DCS appeals section was moved to the Indiana Office of the…
Neil F.X. Kelly
Neil F.X. Kelly is an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. He previously served with the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office with six Attorneys General for nearly 30 years until his retirement in October 2021. Neil has extensive civil and criminal trial and appellate experience dealing with a…
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…
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…
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…
Marc Abrams
Marc Abrams is Assistant Attorney in Charge of the Civil Litigation Section of the Oregon Department of Justice, 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 handling…
