Wendy Still

Wendy Still is a criminologist and expert in corrections and conditions of detention facilities and community corrections. Chief Still’s over 40 years of experience correctional expertise includes leadership roles in prisons and adult and youth probation departments across California. Her prior experience includes conducting detention investigations and findings reports for Department of Homeland Security and Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and in 2025 a federal court appointed her as Special Master to lead the investigation team in the class action litigation at the Federal Correctional Institution-Dublin.  Chief Still has also served as the Project Director for the Re-imagine Adult Justice project in Alameda County and as an expert for the California State Legislature, Department of Justice and California Attorney General on condition of confinement. She has a Master’s Degree in Criminology, Law, and Society from the University of California at Irvine and is the author of numerous reports on corrections practice. Chief Still won Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year in 2014 and numerous other prestigious awards.