By Dustin Slaughter Assistant District Attorney John McNamara continues to bolster his reputation as a highly-driven and competent prosecutor after securing a nomination for ‘Prosecutor of the Year’ by the Liberty Mid-Atlantic High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) recently. His path to...
By Dustin Slaughter Maleah Thomas-Thornton, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s Community Engagement Liaison for South and Southwest Philadelphia, is a Philadelphia native whose commitment to young people and community service has shaped an unconventional career path. “I am from West...
By Dustin Slaughter Assistant District Attorney Anne Marie Ambrose brings nearly four decades of experience in juvenile justice to her role as Special Advisor in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Youth Justice Division. She brings the perspective of a former public defender,...
By Dustin Slaughter Rob Bielunas has served as the Government Affairs Liaison for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office External Engagement and Government Affairs Division since 2025, where he helps manage relationships between the DAO and elected officials at both the city and state levels....
By Dustin Slaughter Before joining the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in 2021, Pittston, Pennsylvania native Stephen Girman had been quietly laying the foundation for a career in prosecution, clerking for Judge Frank Palumbo, and becoming more familiar with the nuts-and-bolts of the...
By Dustin Slaughter Assistant District Attorney William Fritze has built an unusual career path within the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, rising from a victim advocate role to Chief of the Gun Violence Task Force through nearly two decades of service. Fritze was raised in a small farming...
By Dustin Slaughter At the intersection of mental health, treatment, and criminal justice, Arona Gur has built a career defined by a belief that legal systems work best when they focus not only on punishment, but on long-term human outcomes. Long before becoming Supervisor of the Mental Health Unit...
By Dustin Slaughter Jody Dodd brings decades of experience in peacebuilding, social justice, and restorative practices to her work at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Trained in restorative practices by Quakers in the early 1980s, Dodd describes her professional path as “an...
By Dustin Slaughter Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Lin was born and raised in New Jersey. She developed an early interest in reading, writing, and communicating with others. She attended Cornell University for her undergrad, majoring in government. She began to see law as a natural path that...
By Dustin Slaughter Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Daphne Floyd is a proud graduate of the Philadelphia High School for Girls. She went on to attend West Chester University (WCU) in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where she initially majored in speech pathology and audiology. During her...