MEMBERS OF THE KENTUCKY DEATH PENALTY ASSESSMENT TEAM!
Professor Linda Sorenson Ewald, Co-Chair, is a Professor of Law at the University of
Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Professor Ewald’s current teaching interests are
family law, the legal profession, and ethics. She helped develop the Greenebaum Public Service
Program, the Brandeis Inn of Court Partners in Professionalism, and the law school’s in-house
clinic which serves low income individuals and victims of domestic violence in Jefferson
County. Her professional activities include service as a member of the Kentucky Bar Foundation
Board, the Kentucky Judicial Nominating Commission, the KBA Ethics 2000 Commission, and
the Louisville and Jefferson County Public Defender Board. Professor Ewald is a graduate of the
University of Louisville (J.D.) where she was an associate editor of the Journal of Family Law.
She also is a graduate of New Y ork University School of Law, where she received an L.L.M.
degree.
Professor Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer, Co-Chair, is a Professor of Law at the Northem
Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Professor Mannheimer teaches courses
on criminal law and procedure, death penalty policy and procedure, and evidence. He served as
a law clerk for the Honorable Sidney H. Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Souther District
of New Y ork, and then for the Honorable Robert E. Cowen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit. He has represented clients at every level of the state and federal judiciaries, from
handling sentencing proceedings, motions, and hearings in the New Y ork trial courts to filing a
petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Mannheimer received his
J.D. in 1994 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar all three
years and served as Writing & Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Michael D. Bowling is Of Counsel to the law firm Steptoe & Johnson P.L.L.C. He concentrates
his practice in the areas of governmental affairs and lobbying, county and municipal law,
construction law, environmental law, and products liability. Mr. Bowling has served as chairman
of the Blue Ribbon Panel in Support of Public Advocacy of the Kentucky Bar Association; board
attomey of the Bell County Board of Education; Middlesboro City Attomey; State
Representative, 87th Legislative District; and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee of the
Kentucky Legislature. He received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky and his J.D. from
Northem Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law.
Professor Allison Connelly is an associate professor of law at the University of Kentucky
College of Law. She joined the University of Kentucky faculty in 1996 as the first Director of
the College’s Legal Clinic. Prior to joining the law school, she spent 13 years as a Kentucky
public defender providing direct representation, including death penalty representation, to needy
individuals at all levels of the criminal justice system. She became the first female Public
Advocate, the head of Kentucky’s statewide public defender system, and has more than twelve
published appellate decisions to her credit. She received her B.A. degree from the University of
Kentucky and her J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law.
' The affiliations of each member are listed for identification purposes only. Each Team member has acted in
his/her personal capacity. The content and views expressed in this Report do not necessarily reflect those of any
listed affiliations.
Justice Martin E. Johnstone is a retired Kentucky Supreme Court Justice who served from
November 1996 until his retirement in 2006. He was the first judge in Kentucky to have been
elected to all levels of the Court of Justice, having served as a Judge in the Third Magisterial
District, a District Judge in Jefferson County, a Circuit Judge of Jefferson County Circuit Court,
a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and lastly a Kentucky Supreme Court Justice. Justice
Johnstone has received numerous awards for his professional service and is also actively
involved in several professional organizations. He received his B.A. from Western Kentucky
University and his J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.
Justice James E. Keller is a retired Associate Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. He
served for 22 years as Circuit Judge for Fayette County, during which time he served two terms
as the Chief Circuit Judge, was Co-Chair of the First Fayette Family Branch of the Fayette
Circuit Court, and volunteered as a Drug Court Judge. After retiring from the Kentucky
Supreme Court in 2005, Justice Keller joined the firm Gess Mattingly & Atchison P.S.C. He
received his B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University and his J.D. from the University of
Kentucky College of Law.
Frank Hampton Moore Jr. is a partner with the Bowling Green firm Cole & Moore, P.S.C.
His practice areas include trial practice, insurance defense, administrative, medical malpractice
defense, employment, business, and commercial law. He has served as the President of the
Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association and is a member of several other professional
organizations including the Kentucky Bar Association, Kentucky Bar Foundation, and the
Intemational Association of Defense Counsel. For twelve years, Mr. Moore has served as a
Board Member and Chairman of the Bowling Green Independent Schools. Mr. Moore received
his B.S. from Western Kentucky University and his J.D. from the Northem Kentucky University
Chase College of Law.
Marcia Milby Ridings is a partner is the fim Hamm, Milby & Ridings, P.S.C. Her practice
areas include insurance defense, civil litigation, workers compensation, bankruptcy, employment
law, and product liability. After law school Ms. Ridings served as a law clerk to the Honorable
Eugene E. Siler, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastem and Western Districts of Kentucky.
She is a member of the Laurel County Bar Association, Kentucky Bar Association, and
Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys. She received her B.A. from Georgetown College and her
J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law where she was a staff member of the
Kentucky Law Journal.
