Deputy Warden Ed Banks, current sergeant-at-arms for the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents and past member of the NAAWS board of directors, has been promoted to warden of Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville, Ohio.

Mary Livers, Ph.D., was appointed director of the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice. She had been serving as interim director since July 29. Before her service in Louisiana, Livers served four years in the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services as the deputy secretary of operations and the chief of staff. Livers also served in a variety of leadership roles with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for 19 years, where she became the associate director and chief advisor to the director. As second-in-command of Oklahoma’s correctional system, Livers oversaw 17 correctional institutions, as well as inmate classification, industry and agricultural services, accreditation and procedures, environmental health, safety, and sanitation. Livers is a member of the American Correctional Association and served a term on ACA’s Board of Governors. She is also a charter member of the Association of Women Executives in Corrections. She received her doctorate degree in adult and higher education, with staff development and training specialties, from Oklahoma University in 2001.

Cheryln K. Townsend, director of the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services in Las Vegas, has been named executive director of the Texas Youth Commission. Townsend’s distinguished career in juvenile justice extends three decades and includes previous positions at TYC. She also served as director of Juvenile Court Services for the Superior Court of Arizona’s Juvenile Court Center in Maricopa County. 

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