Elizabeth P. Hines was elected to the 15th Judicial District Court bench in 1992. She served as Chief Judge from 1997 to 2001, and is the former Presiding Judge of the District Court Division of the Washtenaw County Trial Court.
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More information
- Elizabeth Pollard Hines profile on Judgepedia
- Interview at the Center for Court Innovation on the domestic violence court
We still have a regular docket of cases: landlord-tenant, parking, traffic, small claims, and other criminal cases. But one day a week, two of us three judges in the city of Ann Arbor and colleagues in other district courts in the county do domestic violence cases. And we coordinated our dockets so that the limited resources of the defense bar, the prosecutor, the shelter can staff our courts.
- Columbus Dispatch, November 2009
More than a decade ago, Hines began holding judicial-review hearings with convicted batterers. These meetings, typically held every 30 to 90 days, force the abusers to prove they are complying with their probation, attending batterer-intervention programs and not abusing their victims.
