in 2002, ray kelley made his first police commissioner was the number two n.y.p.d., a job i had for eight years for mayor in 2010, mayor bloomberg made me a judge in the criminal court of the city of new york and in 2012 i was appointed by the administrative judges a criminal court to be the supervising judge for city raymond in the city of new york position i now hold. >> good afternoon. my career is not as colorful as my colleagues. my name is marie claire brown. i am at the district of columbia department of health. i was in private practice for 12 years after which i decided to move to the government. i've been a district of columbia attorney for the past 18 and a half years so i am currently a senior assistant general counsel for the department of health, helping merchants the preparedness and response administration and in that capacity i do a lot of what we are here to talk about today and i am looking forward to a great panel. >> very good. let's start with you. fema has developed a disaster operations legal reference. that's a lot of large document that goes through a number of d