| Timeline: |
| April 15: D.C. middle school principal Brian Betts is found shot to death in his Silver Spring home. |
| May: Four DYRS wards are accused of murdering Betts. Nickles has Hildum write a report to address the agency’s problems. |
| July: Nickles uses Hildum’s report to have Schindler fired and pushes Fenty to hire Hildum as DYRS interim director. |
| Dec. 15: Hildum resigns and Nickles rehires him for his old job in the Attorney General’s Office. |
The interim director of the District’s troubled juvenile justice agency has resigned, becoming the third head of the agency to leave the post this year. Robert Hildum took over the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services in July after a slew of high-profile killings allegedly committed by agency wards helped to topple interim Director Marc Schindler. Friday is Hildum’s last day on the job. He’ll return to his previous post as the head of the D.C. attorney general’s public safety division. Hildum is leaving in the face of uncertainty surrounding his future when Vince Gray takes over the mayor’s office on Jan. 2.
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