A Broward County Court judge noted for pioneering work with mentally ill defendants is part of a national suicide prevention effort.

Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, who presides over Broward County’s misdemeanor mental health court, will serve on the executive committee of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, a public-private partnership launched in 2010 by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.