Meet Donald Rilla

Donald Rilla is a retired Psychiatric Social Worker and Forensic Fellow. He spent 35 years working in the Criminal Justice Field working in a maximum-security mental hospital, performing Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations, supervising insanity Acquittees, Director of a Drug Court, Clinical Coordinator of a Crisis Unit and working with drug addicts.
He is a Founding Member of NOFSW and authored the Code of Ethics. Mr. Rilla was a past president of NOFSW and the Academy of Forensic Social Work. He has presented numerous times on a wide variety of forensic issues. He started writing books when he became legally blind.