Attorneys receive state appointments

On July 23, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the appointments of five attorneys to state boards and commissions.

Stacia Buchanan, of Lansing, chief judge of the 54-A District Court, was appointed to the Indigent Defense Commission. Judge Buchanan is also secretary of the Michigan District Judges Association and serves on the Judicial Section of the State Bar of Michigan, the Ingham County Indigent Collaborative Committee, and the Community Corrections Advisory Board. 

Also appointed to the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission was Macomb County Circuit Judge James Maceroni, of Saint Clair Shores. 

Timothy Pinto, of Ann Arbor, has been appointed to the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Pinto is a clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Pinto previously served as general counsel for the United States Soccer Federation. 

Elizabeth Rios-Jones, of Lansing, has been appointed to the Michigan Interagency Council on Homelessness. Rios-Jones is a deputy state court administrator in the Michigan State Court Administrative Office. 

Jim Townsend, of Royal Oak, has been appointed to the Michigan Gaming Control Board. Townsend is the director of the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy at Wayne State University.

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