Staff
Dr. David R. Montague
Director
Dr. David Montague completed a PhD at Howard University, an MA at George Washington University, and a BA at Morehouse College. He is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and director of the university’s Senior Justice Center, which targets crime against the elderly via teaching, research, and service using interns. The center reached over 1200 people in the last year alone and is the only center mentoring undergraduate students while empowering senior citizens in the United States. He also serves as the coordinator for the UALR Master of Science program in criminal justice. His research interests include perscription drug crime, crime against the elderly, and social justice. He worked for the United States Drug Enforcement Administartion (DEA) as a federal drug diversion investigator and the United States JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) as the Senior Investigator. He has also served as a consultant on national security matters with US Investigations Services, Inc.; the largest private investigative company in North America. Dr. Montague periodically taught administrative asset forfeiture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA and taught crime and policy courses at the University of Maryland College Park. He actively mentors students via his internship program and is the recipent of the Outstanding Faculty Staff Award for teaching and intellectual development of undergraduate students. In 2006, he served as public safety subcommittee coordinator for the Arkansas Legislature’s Arkansas 2020, with priority given to senior citizens. In 2007 he completed the Faculty/Staff internship program in Austria and Slovenia sponsored by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Karl-Franzen Universitat Graz. Also during 2007, he completed the Federal Bureau of Investigation Citizens Academy for business and community leaders. In 2009, he recieved the UALR College of Professional Studies Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. Dr. Montague serves on several boards, one of them being the Substance Abuse Treatment Clinic Advisory Board at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and has given testimony on two prescription drug monitoring bills for Arkansas State Senators introducing legislation. He is also Vice-Chair of the Arkansas Department of Correction’s Inmate Leadership Council Community Reentry Program Board of Directors at the Pine Bluff Prison Facility. In October of 2009, he will begin his term as president of the Southwest Association of Criminal Justice, the association of criminal justice educators for this region of the United States falling under the umbrella of the National Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Dr. Montague resides in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife and daughter.
Candace Greenlee
Research Coordinator
Candance Greenlee graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Sociology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Candance was awarded placement in the Chancellor’s Leadership Corps Program at UALR, and also worked with the Financial Aid as part of a CLC Ambassadorship during her time as an undergraduate. As an undergraduate, she interned with Dr. Montague at the inception of the Senior Justice Center in 2005 and has continued to be involved eith its operation and growth over the years. While interning for the Senior Justice Center, Candance became a member of the State of Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services, Adult Protective Services Task Force, where she assisted educators, public officials, and community leaders with policy recommendations and state intiatives regarding senior care issues in the state. After graduating, Candance went to work for the Arkansas Department of experiences with child welfare legal operations and adult protective services motivated her to return to UALR to finish her Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice and her expected graduation date is May of 2010. Dr. Montague then offered her the opportunity to become project coordinator for the Arkansas Delta Research Project with the Senior Justice Center, which she accepted. Candance has been grateful for the opportunity to help improve the lives of seniors through her institutional and academic work. After being in the Criminal Justice program for six years, she continues to grow and make every effort to research areas which contribute to her understanding to help vulnerable populations, especially seniors.
Sharniece Hughes
Intern/ Office Coordinator
Sharneice was born and raised in Little Rock. She is a graduate of John L. McClellan High. She is a mother of two daughters;Madison and Sadia. Her future goals in life are to become a nurse practitioner and to own a free health clinic for people who are unable to pay.Her interest is in non-profit work. Her motto in life is, “I can do all things through Christ that stregthens me…and when things get tough you get up and brush yourself off, and tell yourself that it’s not going to be like this forever!”
Liz S. Garcia
Intern
Liz Garcia is a senior with a major in Criminal Justice and a minor in Spanish. She will be graduating in December 2009 and hope to continue to a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico and have lived in Little Rock, Arkansas for the past 10 years. She likes to take every challenge that life throws at her as a learning experience and she always looks at the positive side of things. Her family and loved ones are her inspiration. Her philosophy in life is Jeremiah 29:11 says: For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. She resides in Little Rock, Arkansas with her family.
Temika Reynolds
Intern
Temika is a Criminal Justice major with a minor in Mass Communication. She is a native of Arkansas, but was raised in Charleston, South Carolina. After returning to Arkansas she realized that poverty was almost iminent. She knew her future would be vague without an education. To become a part of such an elite team and recieve an internship from the Senior Justice Department is a dream of hers. She is currently engaged and has a beautiful daughter. The members of her family our her motivation and inspiration. Her goal is to successfully succeed as an intern an become a great asset to the department. With many odds against her;her ultimate goal is to graduate at the top of her class with a degree in Criminal Justice. She feels that with perserverance and self discipline, she will succeed. She is proud to say that everyday that passes, she feels that she is one step closer to her dream.
Kyle Rogers
Intern
Kyle was born and raised here in Little Rock and graduated from Catholic High School for Boys in 2002. After attending UCA for two years he transfered to UALR and discovered the Criminal Justice program. Now, he is a Senior with a Criminal Justice Major and a Psychology minor. He’s not sure what he wants to do after school but knows that this internship will help him figure that out. He’s very confident and excited about working for Dr. Montague.
Latresea Smith
Intern
Is currently a junior at the University of Little Rock majoring in criminal justice with a minor pyschology. She was born and raised in North Little Rock were she currently resides. She is a self-driven individual who enjoys learning and broadening her scholastic aspects in life. She has been working hands on with the criminal justice system in areas such as visiting the Arkansas Department of Correction facilities, sitting in on inmate panels to assisting the victims of crimes. She finds this field intresting and it has given her motivation based on the fact that she has understanding to some degree on how this career path works. In 2007, she reenrolled in college after attending Pulaski Technical College right after high school. Since attending in 2007, she has moved forward with great accomplishments. She chose this carrer with the hopes in the future to help implement a better-structured criminal justice system.