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The National Center for State Courts
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Lorri Montgomery
Communications Manager
The National Center for State Courts
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Roxanne Conlin Joins Lawyers Committee
 of National Court Reform Organization 

Williamsburg, VA (March 8, 2004) – Roxanne Barton Conlin of Roxanne Conlin & Associates has joined the National Center for State Courts’ Lawyers Committee, which involves prominent practicing attorneys in the National Center’s work and programs. Committee members serve in a leadership role with a commitment to support the National Center’s mission, to actively participate in outreach to the bar and the legal community, and to encourage support for the National Center’s programs and initiatives. Inaugural meetings were held recently in Washington, D.C. and in San Francisco in conjunction with the midyear meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices.

Conlin specializes in representing people who have been harmed by others. From 1969 to 1976 she was an assistant attorney general for Iowa, where she headed the Civil Rights section, and she served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa from 1977 to 1981. She was the first women president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), and has served as chair of numerous ATLA committees and as president of the Roscoe Pound Foundation. From 1986 to 1988, she was the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund president. Conlin was selected as a member of the prestigious Inner Circle of Advocates, and in 1998 she was named by the National Law Journal as one of the “Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America.”

The National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a non-profit court reform organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. The National Center, founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, provides education, training, and technology, management, and research services to the nation’s state courts. The National Center also is taking the lead on several key issues facing the justice system. For example, it has established a major civil justice initiative, a multi-year project that is examining best practices in civil case management and how complex litigation procedures can be improved. Other national initiatives being driven by the National Center include judicial selection reform and increasing citizen participation in jury service.

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