Women Behind the Wheel: Understanding Female Impaired Drivers

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KATE HUFFMAN served for twenty-one years as a General Division Judge on the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court and was elected to the Second District Court of Appeals in 2022. During her trial court tenure she presided at various times over the Drug Court and the Women’s R.IS.E. court. Judge Huffman received her B.A. in political science from Wright State University and her J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law, and an M.A. in Judicial Studies from the University of Nevada; she earned a Certificates in Judicial Development General Jurisdiction Trial Skills an Judicial Development Dispute Resolution Skills from the National Judicial College. Judge Huffman is a member the Innovative Specialized Docket Committee and the Criminal Law and Procedure Committees of the Ohio Judicial Conference. She recently served two terms on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Judicial College. Judge Huffman completed two terms on the Commission for the Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Ohio Supreme Court, and served as Chair of that Commission from 2021-2022. She recently chaired the Ohio Supreme Court Task Force to Examine Ohio’s Bail System. Judge Huffman teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Dayton School of Law and on the faculty of the National Judicial College. She currently serves as the American Bar Association Judicial Fellow, providing peer-to-peer training on a variety of topics associated with impaired driving.

As American Probation and Parole Association’s Probation Fellow, Mark Stodola brings over 30 years of experience working in the field of court management and adult probation in Arizona. Mark worked at the Maricopa County Adult Probation Department for 18 years serving in a number of capacities including division director overseeing drug and alcohol treatment programs, problem solving courts and services for the mentally ill. Mark later became the Court Administrator of the Tempe Municipal Court where he served for eight years managing the day to day activities of the court. Most recently Mark served as Program Services Manager in the Adult Probation Services Division of the Arizona Supreme Court where he had oversight of treatment programs for Arizona’s Adult Probation Departments. Mark has presented training on topics surrounding high risk drunk drivers at national, regional and state conferences throughout the country. Mark also is an adjunct instructor at Arizona State University. Mark received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Master’s Degree in Education from Northern Arizona University. Mark became a Graduate Fellow through the National Council of State Courts Institute of Court Management.