Kendall Friend

Kendall Friend, MA, MPA is a Senior Court Management Consultant in the Research Division. Since joining the NCSC in 2024 her project work has focused on Adult Treatment Court state-based technical assistance and outcome evaluation. She earned a Masters in Criminal Justice from Slippery Rock University of PA, Grant Writing Certification from Temple University, a Bachelors in Criminal Justice and Psychology from Lycoming College and she is currently obtaining a Master’s in Public Administration from Murray State University. Prior to NCSC, Kendall was a Project Director at All Rise for five years where she managed the state conference planning project and served as a subject matter expert in Adult Treatment Court standards and community supervision. She began her career in treatment courts in 2014 as an adult probation officer at Fayette County Court of Common Pleas in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where she had the opportunity to supervise veterans court and mental health court intermediate punishment participants. She transitioned to a position as the court coordinator of Fayette County’s mental health court and veteran’s court. In that role, she worked with community partners to implement Fayette County’s adult drug court. In 2018, she became the court coordinator for Pierce County District Court’s adult drug court and veterans’ treatment court programs in Tacoma, Washington, where she helped the treatment court teams implement a veterans treatment court.