Mississippi from the Inside Out
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Who Are We?
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to
be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
-- John Adams
Copyright 2000-2009. Bay Israel Chitrikar Keller Iglesias . All rights reserved.
14th
National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect
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The Honorable |
The Honorable John N. Hudson, Adams
County Judge for the past nineteen years, has been a tireless leader in the
state of Mississippi for all issues involving youth. Judge Hudson has
implemented numerous programs to assist the Youth Court and the general
community, contributing to the establishment of the following: the Court
Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children (CASA) Program in
1991; the Adolescent Offender Program, which serves delinquent youth who would
otherwise be sent to Reform School; the first Juvenile Drug Court in
Mississippi; the development of the Pendleton Therapeutic Group Home for
Adolescent Boys; the $315,000 three-year Title V Delinquency Prevention Grant
for Adams County; the four-year $580,000 Families First Resource Center Grant;
the $300,000 three-year Mississippi Alliance for Prevention of Alcohol and Drugs
Grant; the $247,000 three-year Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant;
and a three-year Arts in Detention Grant. The Judge supervises a Resource
Center, stocked with $20,000 worth of books and videos on family issues and
offering parenting classes for parents of delinquent and abused and neglected
children. He serves as the driving force on numerous professional and
court-related committees, including: The Adams County Committee for the
Prevention of Child Abuse, the Coalition of Children and Youth, the Mississippi
Conference of County Court Judges, and the Mississippi Council of Youth Court
Judges. Judge Hudson acts as the advocate before the Mississippi Legislature,
particularly on issues involving mental health, abuse, neglect, and delinquency.
He has been chosen the Outstanding Judge of the Year by the Mississippi
Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates for Abused and Neglected
Children and as the Most Distinguished Juvenile Justice Professional by the
Mississippi Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. The Judge attributes his
motivation to "his faith" and further explains that early on in his
life he made a connection with children and youth and has since strived, as
circumstances occurred, to promote the physical, emotional, and spiritual life
of children whenever able.
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people,
who have a right... and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right,
an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded
and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.
-- John Adams
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
