Title
Proclamation honoring the Honorable Elizabeth Pollard Hines
Memorandum
PROCLAMATION
Honoring Hon. Elizabeth Pollard Hines
October 19, 2020
WHEREAS, Judge Elizabeth "Libby" Hines, the longest serving judge on the Fifteenth District Court, was elected in 1992 and is the first woman to serve as a District Court judge in Washtenaw County; and
WHEREAS, Judge Hines has been a resident of the City of Ann Arbor for 50 years, and received her law degree and undergraduate degree with great distinction from the University of Michigan; and
WHEREAS, Judge Hines has worked to address the underlying causes that contribute to illegal behavior to make our community safer and to improve outcomes for those who come before her; and
WHEREAS, In 1996, Judge Hines was the first or among the first nationally to start judicial review hearings of domestic violence cases; and
WHEREAS, Judge Hines's court was selected as one of three sites in the country to see what works best with judicial reviews/monitoring in domestic violence cases in a 5-year, multi-million-dollar DOJ study; and
WHEREAS, Judge Hines's court has served as both a national and worldwide model for handling domestic violence cases where judges from all over the country and world have come to observe her courtroom; and
WHEREAS, Judges Hines has helped train hundreds of Michigan judges and more than a thousand judges from across the United States and Canada on judicial best practices in handling domestic violence cases; and
WHEREAS, In 2005, Judge Hines helped create and launch a Street Outreach Court that uses a team approach to deal with issues of homelessness while addressing criminal issues, which has been modeled by other courts throughout Michigan; and
WHEREAS, Judge Hines has served as a leader on access to justice issues, recently serving on the National Task Force on Fines, Fees and Bail Practices, where she helped create the bench card used by judges nationally on the issue; and
WHEREAS, In 2011...
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