2024 American Correctional Association Election Booklet

2024 ELECTION

Delegate Assembly

Lydia Newlin (MN) Director Staff Wellness & Peer Support Services

Lydia Newlin has worked in corrections-based victim advocacy since 1996 and has been a nationally known post-conviction victim advocacy consultant since 2010. Newlin served as the Program Manager for the MNDOC Victim Assistance, Restorative Justice, and Domestic Violence Initiative. Prior to working for the DOC, she worked for the Office of the Crime Vic tim Ombudsman (1994-1996). Newlin received her bachelor’s degree from the University of St. Thomas in 1994 with a major in Criminal Justice and her Master of Arts from Metropolitan University in Public Administration. Newlin has served on boards and committees including, Minnesota Sex Crimes Investigator’s Association, National Association of Victim Service Professionals in Corrections (Chair), American Corrections Association Restorative Justice and Victims Issues Committee (Chair). Newlin has been an ACA Delegate Assem bly representative since 2018.

Jennifer Storm (PA) Victim Advocate Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Storm served for 10 years as executive director of the Dauphin County Victim/Wit ness Assistance Program, a non-profit organization which provides direct services to victims of crime, community outreach and training in victim’s rights, and crisis response services. Storm has been the victim advocate for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2013. As victim advocate, she is responsible for representing the rights and interests of crime victims before the Pennsylvania Parole Board and the Department of Corrections and to provide notification to crime victims of the potential for inmate release, opportunity to provide testimony, and notification of the inmate’s movement within the correctional system. Storm currently serves as president of the National Crime Victims' Law Institute Board of Directors and chairs the PA Task Force on Restitution.

Pat Tuthill (FL) Founder Peyton Tuthill Foundation

Pat Tuthill left her career as director of human resources with a medical center to become a legislative activist, public speaker and advocate for victims’ issues and public safety after the murder of her daughter Peyton in 1999. Tuthill currently serves on the NIC Advisory Board and as the Emeritus ex-officio victims’ representative to the National Commission for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision (ICAOS). Tuthill was appointed the victim representa

tive to the Florida State ICAOS Council, as well as the victim representative to the Juvenile Interstate Compact. Tuthill has served, and continues to serve, on numerous national work groups and forums. In 2005, she founded the Peyton Tuthill Foundation’s “Hearts of Hope Scholarships,” which awards academic scholarships to children who have been left behind by homicide. Tuthill is also affiliated with the American Parole and Probation Associa tion, the National Re-Entry Policy Council and the National Organization for Victim Assistance.

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