About the Resolution Center
The Resolution Center is a non-profit, volunteer organization which provides mediation and conflict resolution training to residents, businesses, agencies and the courts. There is a paid staff of 2.5 and about 100 volunteers, each of whom has had a minimum of 64 classroom hours of training plus six supervised co-mediations prior to handling DRC cases.
The Center was started by a committee of the Montgomery County Bar Association in conjunction with commissioner's court in 1988 and mediated its first case in 1989. It is funded partly by fees imposed on filing certain civil suits in district and County Courts at Law, partly by user fees, partly by contributions and grants, and partly by contractually defined in-kind services provided by the county.
The Center's main office is located on the third floor of the Montgomery County courthouse. Mediations are held there, as well.
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Executive Director
Kathy Bivings-Norris is the founding Executive Director of the Dispute Resolution Center of Montgomery County, Inc. She has a B. A. from the University of Texas and 50 hours of graduate study at Antioch University in Conflict Resolution and was a city manager for six years. She is a charter member and Treasurer of the Texas Mediator Trainer's Roundtable, on the Council of the State Bar ADR Section, a member of Texas Association of Mediators, National Association for Community Mediation and the Texas DRC Director's Council.
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