Joyce A. Campbell, J.D.

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Judge Joyce A. Campbell, J.D., is President of the NAMI National Board of Directors for the second year.

Joyce is a member of NAMI Butler County and serves as Immediate Past President of the NAMI Ohio Board of Directors. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Ohio Judicial Conference and a former member of the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Specialized Dockets. Joyce currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation, and, the Butler County Mental Health and Recovery Services, and the Ohio Judicial College.

She is a municipal court judge in Fairfield, Ohio and has presided over both, a certified mental health and a drug court docket for over 22 years. Joyce is a member of numerous professional associations and has bar admissions in the state of Ohio, the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court and the state of Kentucky.

Joyce first found NAMI in 2000 and included them in her development of an innovative mental health docket in Ohio. A NAMI representative is present at each weekly hearing to assist those with a mental illness and their families who are involved in the criminal justice system. In her numerous leadership positions, she works to encourage the implementation of a specialized docket for individuals with a severe mental illness involved in the criminal justice system in every jurisdiction throughout the country.

Joyce earned a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University and a J.D. from the CWRU School of Law.