Social Services

	Name: Janet Mason
	Title: Gladys Hall Coates Professor of Public Law and Government
	Phone: 919.966.4246
	E-mail: mason@sog.unc.edu
	Areas of Interest: Juvenile law; social services law; adoption; marriage law

Janet Mason joined the Institute of Government in 1982. Prior to that, she practiced law for seven years with legal services programs in North Carolina. Before law school she worked as a social worker in Baltimore and as a juvenile court counselor in Orange County. She has served on and chaired the university's Faculty Grievance Committee, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee, and the Committee on University Government. She also served on the Administrative Board of the School of Social Work. Recent publications include a Special Series bulletin, Confidentiality in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings; an article in Popular Government about North Carolina marriage laws; Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect in North Carolina, Second Edition; and the 2005-2006 edition of North Carolina Juvenile Code and Related Statutes, published by LexisNexis. Mason earned a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

	Name: John L. Saxon
	Title: Professor of Public Law and Government
	Phone: 919.966.4289
	E-mail: saxon@sog.unc.edu
	Areas of Interest: Social services law; child support; elder law; family policy

John Saxon joined the Institute of Government in 1992. Prior to that, he worked for 15 years as an attorney for the US Senate and the US Department of the Interior, and as a legal services lawyer in South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina. He is the editor of North Carolina Legislation 1997 and North Carolina Legislation 1998, co-author of The Law and the Elderly in North Carolina, and he has written a number of articles and bulletins regarding welfare reform, social services, child support, and elder law. In 2004 the result of Saxon's research on faith-based social services initiatives were published in Popular Government. Saxon earned a BA from Auburn University and a JD from Antioch School of Law in Washington, DC.

	Name: Jessica O'Sullivan
	Title: Program Manager
	Phone: 919.843.8981
	E-mail: sullivan@sog.unc.edu

Jessica O'Sullivan joined the School of Government in 2008. Prior to that, she was a foster care caseworker for the Ulster County (New York) Department of Social Services, and she worked in administrative and project support coordination and customer service. In her role as program manager, she works with Superior Court judges, District Court judges, clerks and assistant clerks of Superior Court, and district attorneys, as well as DSS attorneys and new social services board members.O'Sullivan earned a BA from the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz.