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April 20, 2007
CONTACT: Katie F. Free, Communications & Marketing, Wallace State
Community College, 256/352-8033, katie.free@wallacestate.edu
Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb Speaks at Wallace State
Hanceville, AL-- Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb
recently addressed attendees of "Major Issues of Minor Clients," a
professional development workshop sponsored by Brook's Place (The Child
Advocacy Center of Cullman, Inc.) and the Wallace State Community
College Human Services and Psychology departments.
Cullman District Court Judge Kim Chaney introduced Cobb as a "champion
for children" adding that she has "worked in the trenches" helping
children and families throughout her entire career.
Cobb related five stories of abused children who "slipped through the
cracks in the system" to the audience and then told how each of those
children now sits on death row.
Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb spoke at Wallace State-Hanceville on Friday.
"Just think of the lives that could have been saved if these people had
received the help and intervention needed as children," said Cobb.
"You are at the forefront of being able to save lives," said Cobb. "You
need to fight with policy-makers and reeducate people because what we do
for the less fortunate is indicative of who and what we are as a
society," she added.
"We need to be absolutely preoccupied with fixing people rather than
filling prisons," said Cobb.
The workshop also featured sessions by clinical psychologist Dr. Richard
Davy; Joanne Terrell, Cindi McNeill and Jennifer Patterson of the
University of Alabama School of Social Work; Cullman District Court
Judge Kim Chaney; local attorney Sister Lynn Marie McKenzie; Mitch
Robertson of The Center for Attachment and Family Development; Michelle
Laidley, RN, MSN, CRNP; and Wallace State Psychology instructor Stacey
Brunner.
Kristen Holmes
Director, Communications and Marketing
Wallace State Community College
P.O. Box 2000
Hanceville, AL 35077
256/352-8118
E-mail: Kristen.Holmes@WallaceState.edu
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