Honorary Committee
The following is a current list of honorary committee members for the Arc of Justice Productions, Inc. film project, “American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton”
Honorary Co-Chairs
Honorary Committee Members
Eva Paterson
President and Co-Founder, Equal Justice Society
Barry Scheck
Co-Director, Innocence Project
Partner, Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP
Rosie Lee Allen
News Anchor (retired) KGO/ABC radio
Producer Annual Faith Fancher Breast Cancer Challenge 5k Walk and Fun Run
Susan D. Anderson
Interim Chief Curator, African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO),
James Brosnahan
Senior Trial Counsel, Morrison Foerster LLP
John Burris
Civil Rights Attorney, The Law Offices of John L. Burris
Co-author, Blue vs Black: Let's End the Conflict between Cops and Minorities
Henry "Sam" Chauncey, Jr
Former Administrator, Yale University
Author, May Day at Yale, 1970: Recollections: The Trial of Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers
Hon. Candace Cooper (Retd.)
Justice (retired), California Court of Appeal
Penny Cooper
Of Counsel, Cooper Law Offices
Co-Founder, Opportunity Institute
Former Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Jinho "The Piper" Ferreira
Deputy Sheriff
Youth and Family Services Bureau Alameda County Sheriff's Office
Rapper/Actor/Screenwriter
Hon. Judith Ford (Retd.)
Judge (retired), Alameda County Superior Court
Co-Founder, Black Women Lawyer's Association Northern California
Abby Ginzberg
Independent Filmmaker, www.abbyginzberg.com
President, Berkeley Film Foundation
Abel J. Guillén
Councilmember, District 2, Oakland City Council
Attorney
Former VP of Environmental, Health, Technical and Land Services Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
Ilka Hartmann
Professional Photographer, Ilka Hartmann Photography (www.ilkahartmann.com)
Elizabeth L. Hillman
President, Mills College
Brad Howard
Director, Rotary International District 5170
CEO/President, Howard Tours
Dr. Jowel C. Laguerre
Chancellor, Peralta Community College District
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
US Congresswoman, 13th District of California
Deborah Menkart
Executive Director, Teaching for Change
Stanley Nelson
Peter Neufeld
Co-Director, Innocence Project
Partner, Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP
Melvin Newton
Professor Emeritus, Merrit College
Brother of Huey Newton
Judith Offer
Playwright and Poet
Barbara Parker
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
William Patterson
Director, East Bay Municipal Utility District
Former President, Oakland NAACP
Guy T. Saperstein
Civil RIghts Attorney (retired)
Mayor Libby Schaaf
Mayor, City of Oakland
Kurt Schmoke
President, University of Baltimore
Former Mayor of Baltimore
Bryan Stevenson
Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
Ruben Sundeen
Partner, Sundeen, Salinas & Pyle
Past President East Bay La Raza Lawyers Association
Past President Rotary Club of Oakland Sunrise
Morrie Turner (passed in 2014)
Syndicated cartoonist, Wee Pals
Host/Executive Producer,
Doron Weinberg
Criminal Defense Lawyer, Law Offices of Doron Weinberg
Jayne Williams
Partner, Meyers Nave Law Firm
Assistant to the City Attorney for the City of San Leandro
McKinley Williams
Former President Contra Costa College
Anne Woodell (passed in 2017)
Former President Alameda County Historical Society