Norma Jaeger Biography
Norma Jaeger began with the Idaho Supreme Court as statewide Drug Court Coordinator in 2002 and currently serves as the Director of Problem-solving Courts and Community Sentencing Alternatives. She provides guidance, support, and evaluation for Idaho’s 55 problem-solving courts, including ten DUI courts, seven juvenile drug courts and ten mental health courts, located throughout the state.  Norma received a Master of Science degree in health services administration from Whitworth College in Spokane Washington and has spent over thirty years working in the development and administration of public mental health and substance abuse programs throughout the Northwest.  In addition to state and county program management experience she has written and directed several major federal grants for substance abuse treatment and prevention projects.

Norma directed state-funded Substance Abuse treatment and prevention efforts in ten rural counties in northern Idaho and directed Multnomah County (Portland) Oregon’s Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Prevention Program, including management of their DUII countermeasures effort.  She also served as County Administrator for substance abuse prevention and treatment services in King County (Seattle) Washington, including the management or oversight of two residential substance abuse treatment units serving offenders, jail-based methadone treatment for heroin-addicted offenders, and a mobile methadone treatment project.  During her time in Seattle, she served as vice-chair of the Northwest High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area consortium and served as the Chair of the Seattle-King County Community Epidemiology Workgroup, a NIDA sponsored initiative to collect and report drug use trend data, nationally.

In 2001, she joined the Idaho Department of Correction as Statewide Manager of Offender Programs and also began teaching courses related to offender rehabilitation at Boise State University, including Contemporary Issue in Offender Rehabilitation, Effective Interventions for High-Risk Offenders, Therapeutic Community Treatment, Leadership in the Criminal Justice Organization, and Problem-Solving  Courts.