In 1998, I was working in my office in the King County Courthouse when I got a call from Robert Fertitta, Dean of the National College of District Attorneys. He offered me the chance of a life time—to move to Columbia, South Carolina and be a pioneer in setting up national training courses for state and local prosecutors at a national training center. The training center would be called the National Advocacy Center (NAC), and it would have over 200,000 square feet of classrooms, lecture halls, courtrooms, and hotel accommodations. I accepted the offer. The NAC, as you can see, it looks like the Palace of Versailles of the South. The story of the rise (a major reform of the criminal justice system) and fall of the NAC for state and local prosecutors is told in my new book Roadways to Justice: Reforming the Criminal Justice System. 

Here are more pictures of the NAC and colleagues and attendees. More to come later.