Ex-OJJDP Leader Listenbee to Join Philadelphia DA’s Office

Robert Listenbee, former administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, will be joining the District Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia as the First Assistant DA.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who made the appointment, said in a press release, "By having Robert Listenbee, who distinguished himself in the Obama administration as part of my team, we will be able to add more capacity to everything we do from juvenile justice issues to supporting the communities we serve to offering our city's most vulnerable citizens a helping hand."

"The City of Philadelphia has always been home to me,” Listenbee said in the release, “and having the opportunity to join the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office as DA Krasner's First Assistant, as he embarks on one of the most consequential reform efforts of any district attorney's office in the nation, is not just an honor, but is beyond exciting,"

Listenbee ran the OJJDP from March 2013 until January 2017 under the Obama administration. After that he was a Visiting Fellow at the Stoneleigh Foundation, which works on juvenile justice and child welfare.

Before the OJJDP post, he was chief of the Juvenile Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia for 16 years and a trial lawyer with the association for more than two decades.