Robert Reed
Rob has been a career public servant working for more than 40 years in federal and state governments. Rob served in the U.S. Department of Justice for 34 years as an Assistant United States Attorney. In March 2017, Rob was appointed an Executive Deputy Attorney General in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and now focuses on reentry, trauma civil rights, and reform issues. Rob spearheaded the creation of the Pennsylvania Reentry Council, which he chairs, that for the first time brings together reentry stakeholders around the Commonwealth to assist reentrants to make a successful return to their families and communities and to reduce recidivism. Rob also initiated an effort to make Pennsylvania a trauma-informed state. Rob serves as part of the Executive Leadership Council that oversees Heal PA, the unprecedented initiative to create a trauma-informed Pennsylvania. Recently, Rob was appointed as a Lecturer in the Temple University Medical School and is teaching about the impact of trauma and adversity on our health, history, legal system, and society. Rob has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School and is married with three children.
