Day 3 2022

Judge Gayle Williams-Byers serves as Administrative and Presiding Judge of the South Euclid Municipal Court in South Euclid, Ohio since January 2012.  Prior to joining the bench, Judge Byers served as an Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor in northeast Ohio, ending her career as Supervisor of the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury. At the same time, she served as Adjunct Faculty at the Cuyahoga Community College in the Department of Law Enforcement, teaching courses in the areas of Juvenile, Constitutional and Criminal Law.      

In addition to her judicial responsibilities, she has been elected to the position of President-Elect for the American Judge’s Association (AJA), the largest judges-only organization in North America which has a mission of providing quality education programs and high-level publications to its members.  In her current capacity, she is Chairwoman of the Wellness and Conference Committees.  Throughout her membership with AJA, she has served on the Education, Domestic Violence, Diversity, Membership and Social Media and Technology Committees.  Additionally, Judge Byers has been appointed to serve as the only Judicial Fellow for the National Judicial College (Reno, Nevada).  In this role, she has honed expert skills in the area of Commercial Drivers, licensing and federal penalties.  She teaches courses to judges across the United States on Ethically Handling Commercial Drivers in Criminal and Traffic courts.  Further, she provides advice and guidance to the National Judicial College on this topic. 

As Municipal Judge in the City of South Euclid, Judge Byers has spearheaded several innovative advancements, including livestreaming court proceedings, creation of an IOS App to provide instant docket access, implementing a monthly Night Court docket to provide parties additional access to justice, and creation of the only suburban Specialized Mental Health Docket in Cuyahoga County.  This docket is designed to address the needs of defendants who struggle with severe and persistent mental illnesses.  Judge Byers was also the catalyst in forming the first suburban Drug Court initiative in partnership with Cleveland Municipal Court, where inaugural funding in the amount of nearly $2 million has helped to serve suburban communities in northeast Ohio.  Judge Byers received her B.A., M.N.O., and J.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University.  She formerly served on the Board of New Directions, an organization that provides life changing treatment to chemically dependent adolescents and their families.  She is also a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Alpha Lambda Sigma Chapter.  Judge Gayle Williams-Byers is a member of Beulah Baptist Church, where her father, Dr. A.E. Williams is Pastor.  Judge Byers is married to Gregory D. Byers, Jr.  They have one son, Gregory, a granddaughter, Laila and a rescue puggle, Gator.

Kylla Lanier is the Deputy Director and co-founder of Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT), a 501(c)3 organization that exists to educate, equip, empower and mobilize members of the trucking, bus and energy industries to combat domestic sex trafficking. She is responsible for implementation of vision, state based initiatives, training, partnership development and national promotion of organization. She speaks on human trafficking and how the transportation industry is proactive in preventing and combatting it at conferences, in print, on radio, television, film, press conferences, universities, trucking shows and trucking industry meetings and makes operational decisions for TAT. She is responsible for implementation of TAT’s programming, including the Iowa Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE) model and pertinent legislation in all 50 states and also conducts in-depth law enforcement trainings around the nation. She consults with international agencies that seek to replicate TAT’s model and instructs audiences on best practices for engaging industry in the fight against human trafficking.

TAT won the 2017 Linking Arms Award, the 2017 American Trucking Associations Mike Russell Trucking Image Award, 2015 Suzanne McDaniel Memorial Award for Public Awareness from Congress, the 2012 Norma Hotaling Award for Innovative Demand Reduction from Global Centurion, been recognized by the United Nations as one of the 100 Best Practices for Combatting Human Trafficking in 2013, been recognized on the Congressional floor for its grassroots efforts, received multiple special recognition awards from the trucking industry and received the Award of Service in 2014 from the Trafficking in America Taskforce.

Ms. Lanier has been involved in the fight against human trafficking since 2007 when she helped initiate the state coalition against trafficking in Oklahoma. In addition to her human trafficking work, she has authored a book called My Life Crazy about her missionary experiences working with gangs in El Salvador in the mid-1990s. She was also named Broken Arrow Public Schools District Teacher of the Year in 2011.

Isabella Marra is a Transportation Specialist with six years of experience working alongside the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Division within the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Isabella specializes in program management and is responsible for educating other employees on using progressive systems and applications, including auditing software, agency procedures and organizational applications. Within FMCSA, Isabella helped spearhead the agency’s human trafficking awareness initiative, and has played a vital role in connecting FMCSA with outside stakeholders to help further the agency’s mission to save lives. 

Aaron Ann Cole-Funfsinn is honored to be a member of the Traffic Team at the NDAA’s National Traffic Law Center. Aaron Ann was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky.  She left the Bluegrass State to attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and then moved to Chicago to attend Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  Upon her graduation in 2008, Aaron Ann began working as a criminal prosecutor at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, where she clerked throughout law school.  After prosecuting countless cases, Aaron Ann returned to Kentucky in 2012 and practiced administrative and civil law before returning to her roots in the Special Prosecutions Unit at the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office.  In 2016, she became an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney with the Fayette County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office and was eventually appointed to the Special Victim’s Unit.  After, she joined the Kentucky State Police (KSP) as an Attorney in the Office of Legal Services to teach at the Academy and advocate for KSP.  In August 2019, Aaron Ann was appointed as the law enforcement-focused Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor (TSRP) based at KSP.  There, she worked tirelessly to develop traffic-based trainings for law enforcement and prosecutors.  Aaron Ann is a member of the Kentucky CDL Advisory Committee and the Kentucky CDL Outreach Project.  

Chris Daniels has been the Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor for Indiana since 2011. Prior to that, he was a deputy prosecutor in St. Joseph County for 5 years, and worked as the Fatal Alcohol Crash Team prosecutor. In his time at IPAC, Chris has worked closely with traffic safety stakeholders on a wide variety of traffic issues, particularly Operating While Intoxicated. He has been a co-author on publications such as the NDAA CDL Distracted Driving Monograph. In addition to training in Indiana, Chris has trained at several national conferences as well as been guest faculty in other states such as Michigan, Idaho, Illinois, and Oklahoma on the topics of operating while intoxicated, commercial motor vehicles, and distracted driving.

Miriam Norman is the Senior Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor for Washington State. As a TSRP, she is a resource to all prosecutors and officers in the state of Washington handling an impaired driving case. She trains, provides legal advice, and trial assistance to prosecutors and officers, and assists in drafting legislative fixes. She also speaks as requested to interested stakeholders and community members. Prior to becoming a TSRP, she was the lead DUI Prosecutor for the City of Seattle. As the Lead DUI Prosecutor, she acted as a liaison between prosecutors and law enforcement, community groups, and other stakeholders in the fight against impaired driving in addition to trainings. Miriam is a career prosecutor. Her focus and specialty has consistently been traffic crime. However, she prosecuted in Jefferson County where she started a mental health court, prosecuted felonies, misdemeanors, DV/SA cases, and honed her trial skills. She began her career many years ago as a prosecutor in small cities around Yakima. 

Officer Huber began his career in 1999 when he graduated from the WA State Basic Law Enforcement Academy.  He worked 3^rd watch patrol in the downtown corridor following his initial academy training.  In June of 2004 he was assigned to the SPD DUI/DRE Squad where he worked until 2012. 

In October of 2004, Officer Huber was certified as Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) and in February of 2006 he became a DRE Instructor.  From the spring of 2006 through 2015, he coordinated the Field Certification portion of the WA State Drug Recognition Expert training program.  He has also assisted as an instructor for several DRE schools during his time as a DRE.

In his 8+ years in the DUI squad, he made approximately 1000 impaired driving arrests and of those many were DRE arrests and assessments. 

He has been the SPD DRE Coordinator since January of 2008 and an instructor for anything Impaired Driving related. 

In 2012, Officer Huber joined the Seattle Police Department’s Education & Training Section and in 2016 named himself the SPD Impaired Driving Training Coordinator.  

Corey Kenney has served as the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor since 2017. Corey began his legal career 20 years ago and has worked as a municipal prosecutor, an assistant county attorney, private attorney, and Guardian ad Litem.

 Throughout his career, Corey has developed a passion for traffic safety issues with a focus on developing strategies and approaches to combat impaired driving and to hold offenders accountable. Corey received a Bachelor’s Degree in History from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, KS and his law degree from the University of Kansas.

Kristen Shea is Senior Programs Analyst for Member Services and Public Affairs with AAMVA where she leads working groups on projects related to CDL Driver History Record best practices and Emergency Resilience and Response preparedness for SDLAs. Prior to joining AAMVA, she served as Special Assistant to Board Member Earl F. Weener at the NTSB for four years working on multi-modal crashes. Before coming to the NTSB Kristen worked as a Senior Attorney for the National District Attorneys Association’s National Traffic Law Center for six years in a position grant funded by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Kristen also spent time at the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office as a program manager and served for almost 10 years as a prosecuting attorney, including time in Nashville as the head of the Vehicular Crimes Unit.

Kristen earned her law degree from the University of Memphis and her undergraduate degree at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.  Kristen completed a Master of Public Administration and Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security and Emergency Management in the fall of 2019 at George Mason University where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy. 

Jim Camp is a Senior Attorney with the National Traffic Law Center, focusing on Commercial Driver’s License related topics. 

A nationally recognized authority on traffic safety, CDL Masking, trial advocacy, law enforcement and prosecution issues, he is an in demand motivational and subject matter expert speaker having practiced law for more than 40 years most of it as a trial lawyer. Born and raised in East Central Wisconsin, Jim was elected to 9 terms as District Attorney there, and 9 years as Assistant District Attorney General and Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor in Tennessee. While TSRP in Tennessee Jim’s office was at the Tennessee Highway Patrol Training Center where he taught in-service and cadet school classes and acted as a liaison with the Highway Patrol. He was also one of the charter founders and instructors of the Tennessee District Attorney General’s Trial Advocacy School held yearly at the University of Memphis Law School. Jim has authored numerous articles on impaired driving, CDL masking and trial advocacy. Over twenty-five thousand have heard him speak.

Jim is a recipient of the Tennessee Governors Highway Safety Office Lifesavers Award, the Tennessee District Attorney Generals Conference President’s Award, and the Kevin E. Quinlan National Excellence in Traffic Safety Award. He is past board member of the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers, past board member and state president of the Tennessee Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Board of Directors and is currently a member of the MADD National Law Enforcement Committee.

He resides outside of Nashville, TN, is a lifelong drummer, enthusiastic guitar picker, a member of the Tenth Legion, proud father of two and is the world’s greatest grandpa to his four grandchildren.