Corrections_Today_November_December_2020_Vol.82_No.6

Delegate Assembly

2020 Election

Lydia Newlin (MN) Program Manager, Victim Services and Restorative Justice Minnesota Department of Corrections

Lydia Newlin is the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) Victim Services and Restor - ative Justice program manager. In her work with the DOC, she oversees all processes associated with victim notification and post-conviction victim advocacy working with homicide survivors as they prepare to testify at life sentence parole hearings, victims who are victimized while on duty as correctional staff, and offenders who are victimized while incarcerated. Newlin also oversees the DOC restorative justice programming and processes. Additionally, Newlin is responsible for the managing the Minne - sota Circles of Support and Accountability programs which serve sex offenders, veterans and offenders returning to the community after parole from life sentences. She also developed a Domestic Violence Initiative unit which responds to screening offenders upon intake, identifying victims and ensuring victim wrap around processes are available for high risk cases. Newlin works as a liaison to the Minnesota DOC and legislature on matters relating to post-conviction victim issues She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of St. Thomas in 1994 with a major in criminal justice and her M.A from Metropolitan University in public administration. Jennifer 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 is responsible for advocating the interests of adult and juvenile crime victims throughout Pennsylvania. Prior to this appointment, Storm served for 10 years as execu - tive director of the Dauphin County Victim/Witness 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. The author of several books and magazine articles, Mrs. Storm has received numerous awards and has traveled the country to speak about victims’ rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, addiction and recovery, and civil rights. She currently serves as president of the National Crime Victims’ Law Institute Board of Directors and chairs the PATask Force on Restitution. 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 mur - der 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). She was appointed the victim representative 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, and was recently was selected as “one of 25 Women You Should Know.” 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. Her past and present affiliations include the American Parole and Probation Association, the National Re-Entry Policy Council, the National Organization for Victim Assistance and more. 62 — November/December 2020 Corrections Today Jennifer Storm (PA) Victim Advocate Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pat Tuthill (FL) Founder Peyton Tuthill Foundation