Loretta M. Frederick, J.D., is Senior Legal and Policy Advisor of the Battered Women’s Justice Project, a national resource center on the legal system’s response to civil and criminal domestic violence cases.  Since 1978 when she began her legal services family law practice, she has been doing consulting and teaching with and for judges, advocates, attorneys, prosecutors and law enforcement officers on domestic violence legal issues both in the U.S and internationally.   Loretta serves as faculty for the National Judicial Institutes on Domestic Violence and was a consultant for the U.S. Marine Corps on the development of its response to domestic violence.  Her work with the Minnesota State Bar Association includes her current role as Chair of the Domestic Abuse Committee as well as a past term as Chair of the Family Law Section.