Board members give tirelessly to OSLC. They attend quarterly meetings and serve on committees, participate in an annual planning session, and throughout the year provide the OSLC Chief Operating Officer with advice and support drawing from their rich and diverse expertise.
Kip Leonard, Community Member
Role: President
Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026
Kip is a Eugene native and has served on the OSLC Board since 2011. He was appointed to the District Court in 1986 and to the Circuit Court in 1989. As a District Court Judge, he instituted a program for early resolution of cases that has been replicated in other counties. He served as Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court from 1996 to 2000 and is currently retired. In Juvenile Court, he began the state’s first Juvenile Drug Court. He has served as Chair of the Lane County Public Safety Coordinating Council, a member of the Domestic Violence Council, and a board member of the Boys and Girls Club, is President of the Board of Center for Family Development, and is active with community sports programs for youth.
David V. Brewer, Community Member
Role: Vice President
Term: January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
David retired from the Oregon Supreme Court in 2017, where he served as judge since 2013. Prior to that, he served for over a decade on the Oregon Court of Appeals, as Chief Judge from 2004 to 2012. Born in Modesto, California, David earned his B.A. from Sonoma State University in 1974 and completed his J.D. at the University of Oregon School of Law in 1977. He began his law career and later became partner at Lombard, Gardner, Honsowetz & Brewer. Both of David’s alma maters have recognized him with Distinguished Alumnus Awards. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Oregon Campaign for Equal Justice since 1995 and the University of Oregon Law School Dean's Advisory Council since 1997. David has been married for over 35 years and has three children and three grandchildren.
Patrica Perlow, Community Member
Role: Secretary
Term: January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
Patty is the Executive Director of Kids FIRST, the child advocacy center for Lane County for children who have been victims of child physical or sexual abuse or have witnessed domestic violence. Prior to that, Patty was the District Attorney for Lane County from 2015-2024 and served as a prosecutor in the Lane County District Attorney's office for over 34 years.
Susannah Wielesek (aka Sue Miller), Community Member
Role: Treasurer
Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026
Sue was an attorney for 30 years and is currently retired. Her practice focused on domestic relations. She served on the 4J School Board for eight years. She has served on the OSLC Board since 1986 and has consistently demonstrated her interest in all of the members’ needs and concerns. Sue is currently the Secretary of the Board and serves on the Audit Committee and the Institutional Review Board.
Colt Gill, Community Member
Term: January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
Colt has served on the OSLC Board since 2014. He previously served as the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction and Director of the Oregon Department of Education. Colt was appointed by Governor Brown in October of 2017. He served previously as Oregon’s first Education Innovation Officer. In this position, he focused on improving graduation outcomes by working with local communities, school districts, researchers, students, and other stakeholders to identify effective practices across the P-20 continuum and make recommendations to the Governor, state agencies, and Legislature regarding policies, budget priorities, and supports needed to increase the number of students who graduate prepared for their next steps in the workplace or college. He has been an Oregon educator since 1989 and served as a teacher, technology director, principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent for the Bethel School District and Eugene 4J School District. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon and has served on several boards and commissions for the State of Oregon and various education and children’s health and wellness institutions.
Callie Johnston, Community Member
Term: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2025
Callie’s title is Chief Development Officer, Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. To learn more about Callie, please view her bio on the University of Oregon website: https://accelerate.uoregon.edu/callie-johnston
Michael Livingston, Community Member
Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026
Michael grew up in North Carolina and, after graduating from Washington & Lee University, taught for 8 years in a number of different educational programs, including the South Carolina Commission for Farmworkers (providing adult basic education for migrant and seasonal farmworkers), Stokes County North Carolina Public Schools (7th and 8th grade math and history), and the Governor’s School of North Carolina (summer program for gifted and talented high school students). He moved to Oregon in 1978, attended Willamette University College of Law, and then, after clerking for the Oregon Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, served for 24 years as an Assistant Attorney General for the Oregon Department of Justice, first in the General Counsel Division, providing legal advice to DHS–Child Welfare and other agencies, and then in the Appellate Division, briefing and arguing cases in state and federal appellate courts, including death penalty and other criminal cases, complex civil cases, administrative law cases, and juvenile court cases. Between 1999 and 2005, he administered the Appellate Division’s termination-of-parental-rights caseload and served as a member of the Oregon Law Commission’s Juvenile Code Revision Workgroup. After leaving the Department of Justice in 2008, he served as a full-time juvenile court referee and Circuit Court Judge pro tem in Marion County, presiding in juvenile court dependency and delinquency proceedings and, from 2011 to 2013, was Juvenile Law Staff Counsel for the Oregon Judicial Department, during which time he came to know the work of OSLC. Since retiring in 2013, Michael and his partner, Sarah, have been engaged in a number of volunteer endeavors, including serving on the Citizens Review Board for Marion County, which is part of the Oregon Judicial Department and reviews and monitors the cases of children in foster care, and coordinating and maintaining a community garden for the Marion-Polk Food Share program. Michael is a long-time runner, cyclist, and sea kayaker.
Patti Chamberlain, OSLC Scientist Representative
Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Patti has been a scientist at OSLC since the 1980s. She has conducted several studies on treatment for children, youth, and families in the child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health systems. She founded the Treatment Foster Care Oregon (www.tfcoregon.com) and KEEP (www.keepfostering.org) intervention models, which are both implemented nationally and internationally. Patti has been the Principal Investigator on 10 randomized trials examining the efficacy of parent-mediated intervention approaches. She has been the Principal Investigator on two P50 Centers of Excellence. She currently is focused on implementation research with an emphasis on what it takes to integrate and scale-up evidence-based practices in real-world agencies and systems. She is a knitter and a dog lover.
Abigail Murphy, OSLC Staff Representative
Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026
Abby is from the Northeast originally but has lived in Oregon for over 20 years, working for non-profits for the past 15 years. When she first moved to Oregon, she worked at a rural medical clinic and lived in the Coast Range for many years. Until 2022, she co-owned a sheep and poultry farm in Noti, complete with a sheep-herding border collie. Currently, she lives with her 12-year-old son in West Eugene, near the bike path. They like to hike and bake together, and Abby enjoys gardening, knitting, and reading. She works on the SWIFT, KEEP, and 15th Night programs and loves collaborating with others to expand these programs to benefit more children and families. She is grateful for the opportunity to serve as the staff representative on the OSLC Board of Directors.