Robert Schwartz, J.D. co-founded the Juvenile Law Center in 1975 and has been its executive director since 1982.  He has represented dependent and delinquent children in Pennsylvania juvenile and appellate courts; brought class-action litigation over institutional conditions and probation functions; testified in Congress before House and Senate committees; and spoken in over 25 states on matters related to children and the law.  Schwartz helps to manage the National Juvenile Defender Center that was established by the ABA Juvenile Justice Center, Youth Law Center, and Juvenile Law Center.  Since 1991, he has been a gubernatorial appointee to the commission's Juvenile Advisory Committee, which distributes federal funds in Pennsylvania and advises the Governor regarding juvenile justice policy.   Schwartz co-edited, with Tom Grisso, Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (2000). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Andrew Hamilton Award, presented annually by the Philadelphia Bar Association "for exemplary service in the public interest," and the Reginald Heber Smith Award, presented annually by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and the American Bar Association's Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award.