ALFRED — York County Sheriff Bill King has named attorneys  Bernard Broder and Scott Houde and Pastor Todd Bell to two-year appointments on the jail’s board of visitors.

Houde, Broder and Bell join attorney Amy Fairfield and Ted Kryzak  on the visitors board.

According to statute, the Board of Visitors  is tasked with inspecting  the correctional facility and making recommendations to the sheriff with respect to inmates who are mentally ill.

Houde, of Biddeford, is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, earned a masters degree from the University of Southern Maine and his  juris doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law. He established his own law practice six years ago after working for a Biddeford law firm for five years.  He has long been involved in various positions with the York Bar Association. He has been recognized as completing 50 hours of pro bono work for each of the last four years. Houde’s practice includes criminal, family, probate and personal injury law, according to a statement from the sheriff.

Broder lives in Old Orchard Breach and has practiced law for 19 years. He has a masters degree of divinity, a bachelor’s degree in child development and an associates in human services and earned his juris doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law. He began his career in Aroostook County as an assistant Maine attorney general and assistant district attorney and was an assistant district attorney in York County for six years. He specializes in probate, criminal and family law. Broder is a case manager for Maine Pre-Trial Services and has experience as a psychiatric social worker in hospital settings.

Bell, originally of North Carolina and Florida, lives in Sanford  and after beginning his a career in as a machinist, earned a bachelor’s degree in theology from Trinity Bible Institute in Asheville, North Carolina. He earned a doctor of divinity degree from Crown College in Powell, Tennessee. 

Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford, King said Bell is interested in offender rehabilitation efforts and how faith-based organizations may fulfill a part of the overall support system for released offenders.