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.  

Thomas Lockridge has been the Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor at the Unified Prosecutorial System in Kentucky since January 2018. Tom served as the Commonwealth Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit in Kentucky from 1990 until he retired in August 2016. Prior to that and beginning in 1986, he served as Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney. He served as President of the Commonwealth’s Attorneys Association in 1997-1998 and received the Carroll M. Redford Award as “Outstanding Kentucky Prosecutor” in 1995. The Kentucky Attorney General honored Tom as the “Outstanding Commonwealth’s Attorney” in 1997 and in 1996 he was named “Outstanding Young Lawyer” by the Kentucky Bar Association. He has served as a member of the Prosecutors Advisory Council, The Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Assault, and served as chair of the Kentucky Multidisciplinary Commission on Child Sexual Abuse from 2002 to 2009. Tom has served as a member of the faculty at the National Advocacy Center, the Kentucky Prosecutors Institute, at forensic interview clinics for APSAC, and has presented on the subject of Prosecutorial Ethics in over thirty states. In 2020, Tom was one of the co-authors of the NDAA/NTLC Monograph on Constitutional Law Issues in Impaired Driving Cases and was one of the creators of the “TSRP Tips of the Week” video trainings that are widely distributed across the country. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Kentucky Impaired Driving Task Force and is a member of the Kentucky CDL Advisory Committee.

Christopher Turner is the Director of Enforcement Data and Judicial Outreach for the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. Chris has testified before the United States Senate, House of Representatives, Kansas Senate and House, worked on Congressional Highway Bills, state laws, federal and Kansas administrative regulations.  Chris is a former Kansas Highway Patrol Captain. Chris oversaw the Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP), weight enforcement (fixed and mobile), accident reconstruction teams, and the Drugs Recognition Expert and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing programs. Among other duties, Chris served the Patrol as a Drug Recognition Expert, Standardized Field Sobriety Instructor, and accident reconstructionist. 

Chris is a past President of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Alliance serving as the vice chair of the Programs Initiatives Committee, Adjudicated Citations Committee, while moderating several technology forums.

Chris is a graduate of Washburn University School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor and is a practicing attorney. His undergraduate degree is from Benedictine College in sociology focusing on religious studies emphasizing philosophy.

Justice Gary Graber has served as the town justice for the Town of Darien, New York, since January 1980. He is a past member of the Town and Village Court Education Curriculum Committee and has taught criminal and administrative courses for the New York State Judicial Institute and the New York State Office of Court Administration.

Justice Graber continues to be very active in the development and training of topics relating to commercial driver’s licenses and commercial motor vehicles, including the development of sentencing charts which assist the New York courts in properly disposing cases that involve commercial motor vehicle equipment violations. As an alumnus and faculty member of the National Judicial College since 2008 he continually instructs judicial personnel both in their home states and virtually on all matters related to the commercial driver’s license.

Several years ago he was appointed by the Hon. Gail Prudenti, Chief Administrative Judge for the State of New York to sit as a member of the New York State Advisory Committee on Local Courts and is also an honorary member of the New York State Magistrates Court Clerks Association. He is a past president of the Genesee County Magistrates Association and has been a member of the New York State Magistrates Association for over 41 years, serving as a past president, vice president and director in that association.  He has received many awards, including the Leadership Award from the Genesee County Magistrates, the 2005 Magistrate of the Year Award, the 2006 Criminal Justice Award from Genesee County Alcohol and Substance Abuse, the 2006 Leadership Genesee Outstanding Alumnus Award and the2013 Kevin E. Quinlan Award for Excellence in Traffic Safety.

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.