On-Site Staff
Professor Fred Lederer
Director
Fredric I. Lederer is Chancellor Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Legal and Court Technology (CLCT) and the Courtroom 21 Project at the College of William & Mary’s School of Law. He received his B.S. from Polytechnic University in New York and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of the Archie O’Dawson prize (which provided for study with judges at each of the three levels of the federal courts, including Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court). He holds an LL.M. from the University of Virginia. His post-graduate work includes a year as a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in Freiburg, Germany. He served as a member of the United States Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps until 1980 when he joined the William & Mary faculty. He has served as prosecutor, defense counsel, and trial judge.
Professor Lederer’s areas of specialization include evidence, trial practice, criminal procedure, military law, and legal technology. He is one of the founders of the ABA prize winning Marshall-Wythe Legal Skills Program in which all students spend two years in simulated law firms in which they learn professional ethics, legal research and writing, interviewing, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and basic trial and appellate practice - much in the form of simulated client representation.
Professor Lederer is the author or co-author of eleven books, numerous articles, two law related education television series, and is the author of a popular series of “fairy-tale” trials for elementary and middle school students. Among his works in progress is An Introduction to Basic Advocacy and Litigation in a Technological World. Professor Lederer is also the founder and Director of Courtroom 21(CLCT), “The Courtroom of the 21st Century Today,” the world’s most technologically advanced courtroom.
Martin Gruen
Deputy Director for Courtroom Design & Technology
Martin Gruen is the Deputy Director for Technology and Court Design. Since the project's conception, Martin has directed, installed and/or designed the technology systems within the courtroom. He brings over twenty-five years experience providing court technology systems to the legal community.
Martin began his career in legal technology design and installation in 1974. Initially concentrating in the areas of sound re-enforcement and audio recording, he has now emerged as a national expert in court related high technology legal uses. As president and the founder of Applied Legal Technologies, Martin designed many of the nation’s leading state-of-the-art court technology installations and has served as a consultant to several of the nation’s major legal technology manufacturers. His extensive experience with courthouse electronic systems includes courts at the federal, state, county and municipal levels. He has also worked with law firms and law schools.
Nancy Archibald
Associate Director for Operations & Administration
Nancy Archibald, Associate Director for Operations & Administration, has been connected with the College of William & Mary for several years. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona and her Master’s degree in Special Education from the College of William and Mary’s School of Education in 1993. She served as the College’s Intermediate Appeals Officer for In-state Residence for ten years and came to the Center for Legal and Court Technology in 2000, where she directs the day- to-day operations and serves as the Center’s interface with the College.
Stacey-Rae Simcox
Associate Director for Research, Professional Education & Terrorism Prosecution
Stacey-Rae Simcox is Associate Director for Research, Professional Education and Terrorism Prosecution and Adjunct Professor of Law at the William & Mary School of Law, teaching Internet Law, Technology Augmented Trial Advocacy and Legal Skills. Professor Simcox also co-teaches portions of the Electronic Discovery course and teaches a number of Continuing Legal Education courses concerning technology and ethics and technology augmented trial practice. Professor Simcox received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from Ohio University and her Juris Doctorate from William and Mary School of Law. She served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Susan Crawford of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington, DC. As an attorney in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Professor Simcox held a variety of positions including prosecutor; labor attorney; fiscal, contract and general administrative law attorney; Chief of Administrative Law; torts and litigation attorney; and legal assistance attorney. She also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Professor Simcox is the Center’s specialist on the use of technology to try major terrorism cases.
Rebecca Green
Assistant Director for Technology and Privacy
Before law school, Professor Hulse studied Chinese in Taiwan, completed a master's degree in Chinese legal history, and worked as the Deputy Director for China and Hong Kong at the U.S. Trade Representative. She graduated from Harvard Law in 2001 and worked as a media lawyer in Boston in private practice before moving to Williamsburg. At CLCT, Professor Hulse specializes in privacy and technology issues, and teaches a privacy law and technology seminar as an adjunct faculty member at William and Mary School of Law.
Carla Boyd
Assistant Director for Legal Technology and Consulting
Carla Boyd, Assistant Director for Legal Technologoy and Consulting, received her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, Maryland, and her Juris Doctorate from the College of William & Mary, School of Law. Ms. Boyd has worked as a litigator in private practice concentraing in business law and uses her extensive litigation and business experience to specialize in consulting and operations.
Concetta Manker
Assistant Director for Legal Information Technology
Concetta Manker joined CLCT as Assistant Director for Legall Information Technology in 2010, and has a Bachelors in Computer Information Systems and a Master's Degree in Information Technology. She is responsible for the management of CLCT's information technology infrastructure and environment. Concetta also teaches an array of computer courses for Tidewater Community College and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. She lives in Portsmouth, Virginia, with her husband Louis.
Linda Quigley
Assistant Director for Research, Professional Education, and Electronic Discovery
Professor Quigley teaches Electronic Discovery, Technology Augmented Trial Advocacy, Internet Law, Constitutional Literacy, and Legal Skills. Additionally, Professor Quigley instructs attorneys on a wide-range of Continuing Legal Education topics. Professor Quigley currently is assisting in the preparation for the impending detainee trials to be conducted by the Office of Military Commissions in Cuba. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Notre Dame and worked as an editor upon graduation focusing on nonfiction educational works and literary criticism. Professor Quigley received her law degree from William & Mary School of Law and is CLCT’s specialist on the law of e-discovery.
Melissa Ann Conner
Associate Director for Research & Professional Development
Melissa Ann Conner is the Assistant Director for Research & Professional Development and Adjunct Professor of Law at William & Mary School of Law. Professor Conner designed the current professional responsibility curriculum for the first-year, second-year and LLM students at William & Mary School of Law. She also teaches in the Legal Skills Program.
In addition to working for the Center for Legal & Court Technology, Melissa Conner is a practicing business lawyer with Caulkins & Bruce, PC, where she concentrates on franchise transactional law and litigation. Before practicing law, Professor Conner served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles E. Poston and the Honorable Lydia Calvert Taylor of the Norfolk Circuit Court.
While obtaining her Juris Doctorate from William & Mary School of Law, Professor Conner served on the William & Mary Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Board and Team. She is admitted to practice in Virginia and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Professor Conner is the President-Elect of the William & Mary Law School Association Board of Directors.
Domini "Mac" S. McDonald
Courtroom Technologist
Domini "Mac" S. McDonald, retired from the United States Army with over 20 years of service as platoon sergeant/trainer and senior paralegal, with experience in criminal law, operational law and family law. He served as platoon sergeant and noncommissioned officer in charge of operational law for the 101st Airbone Division (Air Assault) Main during Operation Iraqi Freedom where he trained soldiers in human rights, law of war and rules of engagment. The last few years of service he supported the Office of Military Commissions in Washington, DC, and Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba, where he helped design and build the Expeditionary Legal Complex (Camp Justice) including two of the most technically advanced courtrooms in the world. At GTMO he had the responsiblity for training courtroom technicians, lawyers and paralegals on the use of courtroom technology. Mac assists with the operation and future upgrades of CLCT’s courtroom, classroom audio/video technology and training courtroom technologists.
Celeste Vaughn
Assistant Director for Affiliates & Courtroom Information Project
Celeste Vaughn is the Assistant Director for Court Affiliates and CIP (Courtroom Information Project). She has been working in marketing communications for over 20 years, with most of her experience in business to business. She has a Master's degree in Marketing from Temple University, and an undergraduate degree from Kutztown University. She lives in Newport News with her husband Paul and her son, Liam.
Diane Gray
Court Record Manager
Diane Mason Gray has been a stenographic court reporter since 1974. She free-lanced for 21 years before serving nine years as an Official U.S. Court Reporter in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division. Since December 2003, she has been the Court Record Manager for the Courtroom 21 Project at the College of William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Diane holds the Registered Professional Reporter (1975 and 1986) and the Certified Realtime Reporter (1992) certifications from the National Court Reporters Association as well as the Certified Verbatim Reporter certification (1998) from the National Verbatim Reporters Association. She holds state court reporting certifications from Virginia and North Carolina. Currently, she is a member of the National Court Reporters Association, the National Verbatim Reporters Association, and the Virginia Court Reporters Association. She is affiliated with the United States Court Reporters Association and the American Association of Electronic Reporters and Transcribers and also serves on the advisory board for the Virginia Careers Institute in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She has authored several articles published by the Journal of Court Reporting.
Mary Beth Dalton
Administrative Assistant
Mary Beth Dalton is a Michigan native and received her undergraduate education at Central Michigan University where she earned a B.S. in Education. She earned her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse and was an administrator in the field of cardiac rehabilitation for 15 years. Before coming to the Center, she also worked as an analyst for Ford Motor Company. Mary Beth is also a professional genealogist and owns Jigsaw Genealogy in Williamsburg.
Whitney Weidner
Courtroom Technologist
Whit Weidner, CLCT Courtroom Technologist, is responsible for ensuring that the equipment in the courtroom is functioning properly, and trains staff and students on its use. He received his B.A. in Telecommunications from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH.
Off-Site Staff
Richard Herrmann, Esq.
Senior Advisor, Legal Technology
Judge Herbert Dixon
Senior Judicial Advisor
Gerald Thacker
Senior Advisor, Facilities