Justice May Be Blind But She Cannot Be Deaf™
Isabel Framer is the founder and principal partner of Language Access Consultants, LLC. Since 1998, Isabel has worked as a consultant to defense attorneys, prosecutors, law enforcement, state and federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, and advocacy firms on language access for Limited English Proficient persons in the court system. She is a state court-certified judiciary interpreter and has been qualified as an expert witness in court proceedings regarding language access and interpreter standards.
Isabel currently serves on the Ohio
Commission on Latinos Affairs, and as a board member of the State
Justice Institute. From 2004 to 2006, she was co-chair of the
Summit/Lorain Law Enforcement project, the first national project of its
kind to create interpretation and translation models and best practices
for law enforcement, public officials, judiciary interpreters, and
national defense advocates.
Among other articles published in the Proteus and legal journals, she is the author of Through the Eyes of an Interpreter, Interpreters and Their Impact on the Criminal Justice System: The Alejandro Ramirez Case, Interpreters as Officers of the Court: Scope and Limitations of Practice and Interpreting The Interpreter: What Every LAV Attorney and Advocate Needs To Know About Legal Interpretation.
In1997 and again in 2003, the Summit County Sheriff's
Office, awarded Isabel Framer a certificate of appreciation for
demonstrating devotion and professionalism in her work. In 2001, she was
commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky for being
instrumental in a statewide recognition for creating changes on
judiciary interpreting and translating services for the state of