is lisa lightman around? come on up. today we're going to talk about the great lisa lightman. now, i think that a number of you know that until her retirement last friday, lisa was for 13 years the director of san francisco's nine collaborative court's program. her passion for alternative courts dates back to 1997, when she landed the job of director for drug courts in new mexico's administrative office of the courts. lisa made her way to san francisco joining the judicial council of california where she was responsible for developing training programs for collaborative courts and in 2006, lisa began her tenure in the collaborative justice courts. san francisco's collaborative court's program provide alternatives for incarceration, working witworking with familiee welfare systems who face substance abuse, mental illness and other social welfare challenges. the court's programs include behavioral health court, community justice center, drug court, intensive supervision court, young adult court and family treatment court. and these programs provide a pathway out of incarceration