Anne Marie Ambrose
Commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Human Services

           As Director of Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Services at the Department of Public Welfare Anne Marie Ambrose is responsible for operation of four regional offices that provide licensing, child abuse investigations and technical assistance for public and private agencies as well as seven state-run facilities for delinquent youth including one for girls.

           Anne Marie began her career as an advocate for youth in the juvenile justice system in Philadelphia where she spent 13 years as an attorney for the Defender Association. She left that position in 2000 to become the Deputy Commissioner for Juvenile Justice Services for the City of Philadelphia.

           She is a member of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Girl’s Study Group, former Vice President of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators and a gubernatorial appointee to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. In 2007, Anne Marie provided critical testimony before the United States House and Senate in support of the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.

           Anne Marie is a 1987 graduate of the Emory University School of Law.