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Catherine
Stephenson, DDA, San Diego, CA
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Cathy Stephenson has been a
prosecutor for 18 years. She is the former Chief of the San
Diego District Attorney’s Office Family Protection Division
which prosecutes child abuse, and domestic violence cases.
Cathy has been prosecuting child abuse, child homicide, domestic
violence, and sexual assault cases since 1986. She has been
active locally with the Metro Inter-Agency Task Force, the Navy
Family Advocacy Coordinating Council, and the Child Fatality
Committee. Cathy also has served on the Board of Directors of
the San Diego Community Child Abuse Coordinating Council. She
also chaired the Child Victim-Witness Protocol Task Force.
Cathy is a member of the San Diego Sexual Assault Response Team
Systems Review Committee. At the state level, Cathy is a member
of the California District Attorney’s Association Sexual Assault
Committee and the Legislative Committee. She has also been
appointed by the Governor to the Children’s Justice Act Task
Force. In addition she serves on the Medical Protocol Committee
of the Office of Criminal Justice Planning.
Cathy also lectures nationally on the subjects of interviewing
child witnesses, presentation of expert witness testimony,
charging and sentencing, closing argument, child death review
teams and protocol development. Cathy is a member of the faculty
for the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse.
Currently Cathy is the Chief of the Central Pretrial Division
where she supervises the prosecution of felony cases. Cathy also
serves as the District Attorney’s Adult Sexual Assault Crimes
Liaison and coordinates the sexual assault prosecution training
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