Judge Lillian A. Tenorio Attends Treatment Court Judicial Practitioner Training

Judge Lillian A. Tenorio attended the 2025 Treatment Court Judicial Practitioner Training sponsored by the All Rise and Treatment Court Institute and supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The three and half-day training included updates on the best practices standards for treatment courts.

(L-R) Retired Judge Robert Russell from the Buffalo City Veterans Treatment Court and Judge Lillian Tenorio at the 2025 Treatment Court Judicial Practitioner Training held in Oklahoma City.

The Commonwealth Judiciary offers a drug treatment court and a mental health court program and is considering establishing a veterans treatment court program. Judge Tenorio presides over the mental health court program established in 2021.

The training was conducted by past and present judges from throughout the United States, including the Honorable Robert Russell, the retired judge for the Buffalo City Veterans Treatment Court and the Honorable William Meyer, the retired judge from Denver, Colorado who was the founder and first presiding judge of the Denver Drug Court and a founding member of All Rise.

The presentations covered the role of judges, team and staffing, understanding trauma, issues on psychopharmacology, co-occurring disorders, understanding posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, medications and treatment, and recovery management. The participating judges reviewed legal issues, those relating to ethics and confidentiality, and the necessary components of treatment courts including incentives, sanction and therapeutic adjustments, effective courtroom interaction, drug testing, motivational interviewing and program phases.