Amy Davidson is an experienced association professional with a background in membership and foundations and more than twelve years of certification and testing experience. Davidson serves as NCRA’s Director, Certification and Testing, and oversees seven national certifications (RSR, RPR, RMR, RDR, CRR, CRC, CLVS). Amy enjoys seeing candidates successfully achieving their professional goals and proudly displaying their hard-earned achievements. 

Marybeth Everhart began reporting in 1980. She has been a freelancer and official reporter in Brisbane, Australia. She has presented hundreds of seminars for the court reporting profession. Marybeth is the National Marketing Manager for Realtime Coach, working closely with schools, firms, and court systems to improve skills for students and working reporters.

She has served as a member of numerous NCRA committees and has been a contributing editor to the Journal of Court Reporting for more than 35 years 

Joel Freedman is president of The Legal Video Team. Joel has more than 35 years of experience in the video industry. He continues to provide broadcast quality video production for clients like CBS News, Fox News, ESPN, MSNBC, and more.

Before starting The Legal Video Team, Joel earned a BA from James Madison University in Telecommunications. He then gained experience as a staff member of several production facilities and television stations. The live news environment taught Joel how to meet tight deadlines. The video production environment focused him on maintaining the quality of his work. During his tenure at these jobs, he continually worked as a freelancer, which added to his wealth of knowledge.  Joel enjoys being active and spending time outside with the family. Activities include boating, biking, rollerblading, and snow skiing.

Richard and his wife Dana are the owners of Arkansas Realtime Reporting, LLC. Richard is a CLVS and Trial Presentation Professional who specializes in high-complex legal video services. Richard also serves on the NCRA CLVS Council. He started as a videographer with a passion for scuba diving as an instructor and underwater videography, of which he is very active today. Richard's background brings with it experience as a sound engineer and video for television.

Richard started his career in the Air Force after which he has spent the majority of his career as a professional educator in highly technical subject matter up until his retirement in 2019 from public service. Richard thoroughly enjoys presenting and educating others.   Richard and the staff of Arkansas Realtime Reporting, LLC are known for their extensive knowledge and skill in complex legal videography and realtime court reporting serving clients throughout the U.S.

Dave Wenhold has represented the court reporting and captioning professions as a lobbyist for more than 25 years. In his tenure at NCRA as Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, and now as Executive Director, he was successful in lobbying the Judicial Branch and the Executive Branch, and he has worked with Congress to earmark tens of millions of dollars for the court reporting and captioning professions. Dave is currently advocating to curb AI in the judicial system for the protections of all litigants with the introduction of NCRA’s AI oversight legislation.

He is co-founder of Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies, a full-service lobbying firm based in Northern Virginia. Wenhold is a past president of the American League of Lobbyists and founder of the ALL Capitol PurSuit Drive, an annual clothes drive held on Capitol Hill to aid Americans trying to re-enter the workforce, for which he was presented with the U.S. President’s “Call to Service” award, the country’s highest award for citizen volunteerism.

In 2008 Dave was selected along with three other lobbyists as one of the most effective association lobbyists in Washington by Association Trends. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Keene State College in Keene, N.H., the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives, and the Professional Lobbying Certificate (PLC) from the American League of Lobbyists. In 2025 Dave received an honorary Doctorate Degree from his alma mater for his extensive philanthropic work and career of giving back.

Laura Hammargren is a partner in the national law firm of Greenberg Traurig’s Minneapolis office. 

Laura received her undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her law degree from the University of St. Thomas School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. Laura is a litigator with 16 years of experience and expertise in corporate litigation, mass and toxic torts, and product liability.  

Jennifer Sati, RMR, CRR, CRC, CRI, has been a court reporter since 1985. She is from Dayton, Minn., and is a broadcast captioner and program director of the Judicial Reporting/Broadcast Captioning Program at Anoka Technical College in Anoka, Minn. Sati has worked professionally in the freelance, broadcast/CART captioning, and official fields for the past 30 years. She is credited with creating the Anoka Technical College’s court reporting and broadcast captioning program from the bottom up and has served on the Higher Learning Commission committee for the college’s accreditation.

At the national level, Sati has served on the NCRA Board of Directors, as well as the Association’s NCRA A to Z®, Test Advisory, and Contests Com­mittees. She has also served on NCRA’s Certified Reporting Instructor Task Force, and as Chair of the Council on Approved Student Education (CASE). She was named the 2023 CASE Educator of the Year

At the state level, Sati holds membership in the Minnesota Association of Verbatim Reporters & Captioners and actively promotes the steno­graphic court reporting and broadcast captioning fields by working to organize state conventions, serving on various committees, including the organization’s Veterans History Project and Court Reporting and Captioning Awareness committees.

Debbie Peterson, RPR, has been an official court reporter in Minnesota for 29 years. She has served on several committees in the First and Second Judicial Districts of Minnesota and has served on statewide committees in an effort to promote and advance the stenographic reporting method.  She is a member of the Advisory Board for Anoka Technical College Judicial Reporting Program.  She has been and continues to be involved in MAVRC, Minnesota Association of Verbatim Reporters and Captioners 

The Honorable John R. Tunheim has served for 29 years as United States District Judge in the District of Minnesota and served as Chief Judge from 2015 until July 1, 2022.  He also sits regularly as a Visiting Judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1994-1998 Judge Tunheim served as Chair of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board, an independent federal agency empowered to declassify the remaining secret records of the assassination of President Kennedy. Before his appointment as a federal judge, he served as Minnesota’s Chief Deputy Attorney General where he argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and earlier, in the U.S. Senate, as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. He has devoted much of his judicial career to helping develop the rule of law in new democracies, including drafting the Kosovo Constitution and advising more than 40 countries on the development of the rule of law. He is a leader in the federal judiciary, having served as a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference from 2020 to 2024 and formerly serving as Chair of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management. He is a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead and the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as President of the Law Review. He is a former Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a former Chair of the Concordia College Board of Regents. Judge Tunheim currently serves on the Minnesota Historical Society Executive Council.