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Max Williams, Director
Max Williams became Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) in January 2004. He was appointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski after a distinguished career in the Oregon Legislative Assembly where he was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, chairman of the Legislative Counsel Committee and a senior member of the House Revenue Committee. He was also a practicing attorney for more than 12 years at the Portland law firm Miller Nash LLP.
As the Director of the DOC, Mr. Williams oversees the operations and policies of a corrections agency with over 13,000 incarcerated persons in 14 different prisons located throughout Oregon. He has ultimate responsibility for the management of a department with a biennial budget of more than $1 billion dollars and over 4,300 employees. Mr. Williams works closely with individual state-funded community corrections agencies throughout the state that manage over 30,000 offenders under supervision in the community. Since becoming the Director of DOC, Mr. Williams has helped launch a number of significant Department initiatives targeted at delivering programs and services that will reduce the re-offense rate among releasing offenders, including additional cognitive education, alcohol and drug treatment and mental health services throughout the Department. The Department has also constructed and opened two new prisons during his tenure.
Director Williams also serves as a member of the Prison Population Forecast Advisory Committee, the State Data Center Governing Board, the Governor’s Meth Task Force, the Interagency Council on Hunger and Homelessness, the Oregon Homeland Security Council, the Board of Parole and Post Prison Supervision (ex-officio) and as vice-chair of the Governor’s Re-entry Council focusing on successful offender transition between prison and the community.
Mr. Williams is a former member of the Oregon Law Commission and the Oregon Progress Board. In July 2002, he was elected to the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures. In 2002, Mr. Williams was named Tigard’s “First Citizen” for his volunteer work and leadership in the community. He remains active in a variety of community volunteer efforts, including the annual Tigard Old-Fashioned 4th of July Celebration.
Mr. Williams’ interest in corrections grew through his legislative responsibilities, where he became very familiar with the policy issues facing the agency and the larger public safety issues facing the state. He has worked closely with the DOC and the public safety community on a number of issues and is a strong advocate of evidence-based programs in corrections.
Born and raised in Bend, Oregon, Mr. Williams earned a Bachelor of Science degree in information management from Brigham Young University. He worked in the computer industry for both IBM and IBM business partner companies before attending law school at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991.
Mr. Williams is married and has three children. He enjoys studying history, running, biking and sailing.
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Mitch Morrow, Deputy Director
Mitch Morrow joined the Oregon Department of Corrections in 1983 as a corrections officer at Oregon State Penitentiary. Rising through the organization, he served as the penitentiary´s assistant superintendent of security and as acting superintendent before becoming superintendent of Oregon State Correctional Institution in 1998. Mr. Morrow was named administrator of Oregon Corrections Enterprises in 2001, overseeing the prison industries branch of the agency and guiding its conversion to a semi-independent state agency. Mr. Morrow became DOC´s assistant director for Institutions in 2002, and deputy director in September 2003.
Mr. Morrow is a graduate of George Fox University and has a master´s degree in business administration. He holds multiple certifications from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training and the National Institute of Corrections.
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