John J.
Wilson
Deputy Administrator
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Acting Chair
John J. Wilson is Deputy Administrator for OJJDP. He served as Senior
Counsel to OJJDP from 1974 until 1992, when he became its full-time
Legal Counsel. He also served as Acting Administrator and later
was appointed as Deputy Administrator by the Attorney General.
Before coming to the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Wilson was
a Program Administrator and Caseworker at the Michigan Department
of Social Services. He served as a member of the Montgomery County
(MD) Juvenile Court Committee from 1986 to 1992, serving the
last 3 years as the Committee's Chair. He has lectured and taught
courses in the legal rights of children, juvenile justice, and
family law, and has been published in the Children's Legal Rights
Journal, the Juvenile and Family Court Journal, and Corrections
Today. He coauthored OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for
Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders (1993),
is an Editor of A Sourcebook: Serious, Violent and Chronic
Juvenile Offenders (1993), and is an Editor of A Sourcebook:
Serious, Violent and Chronic Offenders (1995). Mr. Wilson
holds a bachelor's degree in History-Economics from the University
of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from Detroit College of Law.
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