Judge David Hejmanowski of the Delaware County Probate/Juvenile Court will serve as the next chair of the Board of Fellows of the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the nation’s preeminent, nonprofit organization for the research of juvenile justice issues and statistics, having been named to the position by Judge Robert Hofmann of Mason, Texas, the president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.

Hejmanowski has served on the NCJJ Board of Fellows since 2019 and was the vice chair of the board in 2022-23. The Board of Fellows serves as an advisory committee to the NCJJ’s research and writing staff, helping to guide decision-making on research projects, written reports, and grant proposals. Judges from 10 states and the District of Columbia currently sit on the Board of Fellows.

The National Center for Juvenile Justice, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and is the oldest juvenile justice research group in the United States, having conducted national and sub-national studies on crime and delinquency since 1973. The NCJJ is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is effective justice for children and families through research and technical assistance. For five decades, NCJJ has conducted research and provided objective, factual information that professionals and decision makers in the juvenile and family justice system use to increase effectiveness.

Among the NCJJ’s current projects are studies focused on reducing delays in juvenile court case processing; enhancing state efforts in preventing child abuse and neglect; the National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Project, which helps produce the Statistical Briefing Book for the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, which annually collects more than a million juvenile court case records from more than 2,400 courts and contains 40 million archived records dating back to the 1970s.

Hejmanowski has served in his current capacity since 2015 and was a magistrate at the court from 2003 until his taking office as judge. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, an officer of the Ohio Judicial Conference, the immediate past president of the Ohio State Bar Foundation, and previously served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice.

Submitted by the Delaware County Probate/Juvenile Court.