Deputy Court Administrator
17th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois
Rockford, Illinois
Nicole (Nikki) Ticknor is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Domestic Violence Professional. Nikki began her career as a victim advocate at a community Domestic Violence Service Provider, where she provided case management, crisis intervention, and legal advocacy. Following this, she was a probation officer in the Domestic Violence Unit for Winnebago County Adult Probation where she supervised a specialized caseload of domestic violence offenders. She then served as supervisor of the DV Unit, Assessment Unit, and Presentence Investigation Unit at Adult Probation and remained in that position until June 2017. Nikki then spent a year and a half in private practice as a mental health clinician. In December 2018 she returned to Winnebago County to serve as project manager for the Domestic Violence Coordinated Courts and Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative. She currently serves as Deputy Court Administrator of Domestic Violence Coordinated Court for the 17th Judicial Circuit of Winnebago County, IL.
Nikki has been involved in the creation and coordination of the Strangulation Task Force, and a Domestic Violence Impact Panel and Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team. She is a member of the Family Violence Coordinating Council and of the City of Rockford Mayor's Office on Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Task Force, and is President of Children's Safe Harbor- the local supervised visitation and safe exchange program. She has been involved in the Domestic Violence Coordinated Courts and DV Mentor Courts since they began in 2012 and 2014, respectively. She also serves as a peer-reviewer for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. She has provided and participated in multiple presentations and community awareness events focused on intimate- partner violence and education on both a local and national level.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM