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Barbara Bruin Biography
Barbara Bruin was born in
Roswell, New Mexico, and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico
and the University of New Mexico School of Law.
Barbara has been active in the legal reform movement since the early
90’s when she was an appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice and
served on the Civil Justice Reform Working Group of the President’s
Council on Competitiveness and helped write and implement the
Administration’s Agenda for Civil Justice Reform. Recently Barbara
participated in legal reform efforts in Mississippi and the U.S.
Congress.
While at the U.S. Department of Justice Barbara helped build and
mobilize a national coalition of prosecutors, victims and law
enforcement in support of criminal justice reform initiatives, including
truth-in-sentencing and habeas corpus reform.
After serving at the U.S. Department of Justice, Barbara was a
prosecutor in the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General where she
prosecuted a variety of cases including public corruption, securities
fraud, election fraud, insurance fraud, assault, drugs and D.W.I. She
then served for five years as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania
Public Utility Commission while the Commission was in the process of
deregulating electric, gas, telephone and transportation.
Barbara has also been Minority Counsel to the U.S. House Committee on
Science, Space and Technology and was in private practice in Washington,
D.C. in energy and international law.
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