Michael Mackey Named Director of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Service Unit 

For Immediate Release: January 13, 2015

The Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice has appointed Michael “Mike” Mackey as Director of the 18^th District Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Service Unit, effective January 10.  The Court Service Unit (CSU) provides intake, probation, parole, restitution, investigations and mediation services. The agency also administers mental health and substance abuse counseling, gang prevention and intervention services, after-hours supervision and parent education. The CSU manages the Attendance Review Panel, the Alexandria Mentoring Partnership, and a variety of crime prevention programs, including Intensive Case Management, Shoplifter’s Alternative, and the SOHO-Space of Her Own and Space of His Own mentoring programs. 

Early in his career, Mackey worked at a psychiatric hospital and then counseled teenagers in Texas, New York, Massachusetts and at Sheltercare of Northern Virginia. Mackey became an Alexandria Community-Based Probation Officer in 1997, providing intensive supervision to court-involved delinquents and status-offenders, prevention services to at-risk children and residents, and cultural and educational programming for the community. He was promoted to Senior Probation Officer in 2001, in which capacity he maintained a caseload of high-risk juveniles and chaired the Court Service Unit Family Assessment and Planning Team. In 2004, Mackey was named the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Probation Officer of the Year. The following year, he became the City of Alexandria’s Gang Prevention and Intervention Coordinator.  In 2007, he received the United Way’s Outstanding Community Service Award and the City Manager’s Alexandria Jaycees Award.

Mackey earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a graduate of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Institute for Regional Excellence and the City of Alexandria’s Leadership and Management Institute. He is a founding member of the Alexandria Mentoring Partnership, and member of the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force and Northern Virginia Regional Human Trafficking Task Force. Throughout the past decade, he has volunteered with ALIVE! (Alexandrians Involved Ecumenically).