Juvenile Court Services Administrator Traci Marchand last week was elected chairman of the Interstate Commission for Juveniles during its annual business meeting in Madison, Wis. Marchand serves as North Carolina’s Interstate Compact for Juveniles Commissioner and has worked with ICJ for more than 12 years.
The Interstate Compact for Juveniles is the only legal means to transfer a juvenile’s supervision from one state to another and to return runaways. A commissioner in each state administers the compact and collectively forms the Interstate Commission for Juveniles.
From 2013-2015, Marchand served as the Training, Education and Public Relations chair for ICJ. She served as chair of the Information Technology Committee for ICJ from 2011-2013, and has also acted as a national rules trainer for ICJ since 2009.
A native Virginian, Marchand became a Tar Heel after earning her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also has a master’s degree in criminal justice from Radford University.
(Pictured here are left to right incoming ICJ Vice Chair Mike Lacy; incoming ICJ Chairman Traci Marchand; and Immediate Past Chair, Pat Pendergast).