Berry B. Mitchell

Berry B. Mitchell is the program administrator for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program for the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island in Providence and is a member of the court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Panel, providing arbitration and mediation services to civil litigants. Beyond his dual role as director and ADR Panel member, he provides education, training, consulting services and technical assistance to both federal and state courts nationwide. He has actively taught at the under-<br>graduate, graduate and law school levels and has served as an ADR trainer-facilitator for federal court ADR panels throughout the U.S. Mr. Mitchell’s experience spans a wide range of activities in support of ADR and ADR programs at the national level, including his appointment in 2010 by the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to a one-year term of service as a member of a national ADR<br>Working Group; two years of service as co-chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Committee on Court ADR Programs; service as a member of the Federal Judicial Center’s ADR Education Project Advisory Group, and as a designated ADR Consultant for the Federal Judicial Center’s Program for Consultations in Dispute Resolution, which provides on-site consulting services to federal district and bankruptcy courts nationwide; and a member of the ABA’s Court ADR Program Advisors Project. Mr.<br>Mitchell received his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law and his ADR training from Harvard Law School.