Nancy is experienced in planning and administering detention facilities, and developing funding options for facility construction and operations. She was the principal planner of a 1,200 bed, multijurisdiction (regional) detention facility in Delaware, which contained courts, court-related services, centralized booking, and transportation. In addition, she developed agreements between the participating counties and agencies who would be housing or serving inmates at the facility. After construction of the facility, she was appointed as superintendent/warden, a post that she held for 8 years. Nancy also served as the Director of the Governor's Office of Justice Assistance in Maryland. In this position, she wrote legislative bills, lobbied for passage of jail and correctional legislation, led task forces on correctional issues, conducted press conferences and public forums, managed projects involving court-ordered jail reforms, and sucessfully led an effort to develop alternatives to incarceration which saved millions of dollars. In addition, she worked with the State's criminal justice agencies in developing funding options and improving jail and justice system operations. Highlights of that experience include developing responses to court decrees on jail overcrowding and reorganizing local court systems. Subsequently, she became Director of the Maryland Division of Probation and Parole. Her background also includes resource development, i.e., grantsmanship and fund raising. For example, as Special Assistant for Resource Development, for the Attorney General in New Jersey increased the annual external funding receipts from $7 million to $68 in just two years. Nancy has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, two Master's Degrees (Public Administration and Sociology/Criminal Justice), and a Bachelor's in Sociology/Criminal Justice.