Officers
2024-2025 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MEET THE FJAA EXECUTIVE BOARD 2024-2025
Photo taken: 2024 Coral Gables Conference Swearing-in of Officers
Left to right: Yvette Garcia, President, Debby Sawyer, President-Elect, Bernita Henley, Past-President, Gabriela Ma, Vice-President,
Melissa Hardin, Treasurer, Katia Rios, Parliamentarian (not pictured Elizabeth Douglas, Secretary)
PRESIDENT
YVETTE GARCIA Yvette Garcia Biography.pdf
Email: yvette_garcia@azd.uscourts.gov
Voice: 520-405-4500
c/o Hon. Michael A. Ambri
Evo A. DeConcini United States Courthouse 405 West Congress Street Room 3170 Tucson, AZ 85701
PRESIDENT-ELECT
DEBBY SAWYER Debby Sawyer Biography.pdf
Email: debby_sawyer@tnmd.uscourts.gov
Voice: 615-736-5498
c/o Hon. Aleta Arthur Trauger
Estes Kefauver Federal Bldg & U.S. Courthouse, 801 Broadway, Suite 825, Nashville, TN 37203
VICE-PRESIDENT
GABRIELA "GABY" MA Gabriela Ma Biography.pdf
Email: gabriela_ma@azd.uscourts.gov
Voice: 520-205-4510
c/o Hon. James Alan Soto
Evo A. De Concini U.S. Courthouse 405 W Congress St Room 6160 Tucson, AZ 85701
SECRETARY
ELIZABETH DOUGLAS Elizabeth Douglas Biography.pdf
Email: elizabeth_douglas@cfc.uscourts.gov
Voice: 202-357-6622
c/o Hon. Armando O. Bonilla
Howard T. Markey National Courts Building 717 Madison Place, N.W., Room 703 Washington, DC 20439
TREASURER
MELISSA HARDIN Melissa Hardin Biography.pdf
melissa_hardin@wiwd@uscourts.gov
Voice: 608-261-5718
c/o Hon. William M. Conley
Robert W. Kastenmeier U.S. Courthouse ,120 N. Henry Street, Room 560, Madison, WI 53703
PAST PRESIDENT
BERNITA HENLEY Bernita Henley Biography.pdf
Email: bernita_henley@tnwd.uscourts.gov
Voice: 901-495-1312
c/o Hon. Charmiane G. Claxton
Odell Horton Federal Building, 167 North Main Street, Room 341, Memphis, Tennessee 38103
PARLIAMENTARIAN
KATIA RIOS Katia Rios Biography.pdf
Email: katia_rios@cit.uscourts.gov
Voice: 212-264-3246
c/o Hon. Gary S. Katzmann
James L. Watson US Court of International Trade Building, 1 Federal Plaza, Room 666 New York, NY 10276