James Park Taylor is the Managing Attorney of the Tribal Prosecutors Office for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He has been in this position since March of 2019. From 2017-2019 he was Country Director for the Myanmar program of Swiss based NGO International Bridges to Justice (IBJ). His duties there included establishing, training, and supporting six IBJ offices providing free legal assistance to the poor and marginalized people in Myanmar facing criminal charges. From 2013-2017 he was the Legal Director for the ACLU of Montana. From 2010-2013, he worked in private practice in Missoula, Montana, taught part time at the University of Montana School of Law and did international consulting. His consulting work has taken him to Afghanistan, Georgia, Vietnam, and Ghana. He served as the first Chair of the Montana Public Defender Commission and was part of the team that designed Montana’s first statewide public defender system. He is a past President of the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. From 2008-2010 he traveled to China on behalf of the Mansfield Center to work with IBJ. His work with IBJ in China focused on criminal justice reform, and served IBJ in China as Clinical Director, Acting Country Director, and Asia Training Director. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Visiting Clinical Supervisor at the University of Montana School of Law. His career also includes many years of private practice emphasizing criminal defense, and almost a decade as the Managing Attorney of the Tribal Defenders for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He was named as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in 2008 and traveled to the University of Pecs in Hungary and to Can Tho University in Vietnam for his Fulbright placements.