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Welcome
to
Center Court
Vol.
7, No. 1 - Winter 2004
- a newsletter published for the
court community by the National
Center for State Courts, featuring news about
projects, programs, and people in the courts and
dedicated to helping courts anticipate change and better
serve the public.
In
this issue:
- Training's a Must--Even in
Difficult Times
- Behind-the-Scenes Work of Court PIO
Fills Vital Role
- Art in America's Courthouses
- Collaboration on Social Problems
Dominates State Court Trends in 2003
- NCSC International Staff Honored by
the Mongolian Judiciary
- Judges, Court Administrators Need
Better Understanding of Each Others' Roles
- NCSC President Search in High Gear
- Revised Caseflow Management
Due in Spring
- Self Help Support Site Offered www.selfhelpsupport.org
- Jur-E Bulletin All the
Rage
- Georgia Chief Justice First to
Receive Award
- National Center Marks 50th
Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
- NCSC Technology Events Inform, Link
Justice System
- Jury Reform Program Moves Forward
Art
in America's Courthouses
Jim Fox, professor, Dickinson School
of Law, is cataloging visual art in courthouses across
the country for a database and publication.
Please send information about art in your courthouse
including wall murals, portraits, sculpture, and other
original art to Professor Fox at the Dickinson School of
Law at Pennsylvania State University, 150 S. College
Street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013. He may be reached
by phone at 717-240-5224 or e-mail at jqf7@psu.edu.
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Training's
a Must-Even in Difficult Times
Ongoing technological
advances coupled with constant societal changes have
dramatically affected the courts - and reinforced the
importance of judicial branch training, court experts
say.
But how can courts
provide the training necessary to keep pace with these
demands at the same time they are facing another stark
reality: severe state budget cuts?
"Even though budgets
are tight, you can't lose sight of training," said
D. J. Hanson, South Dakota state court administrator and
longtime supporter of staff development. "You've
got to look to the future, and the courts' future is in
the folks we have. It's incumbent on us to keep them
current. If you don't, it's difficult to catch up,"
Hanson said. In South Dakota, the court's budget has a
built-in training fund, which is financed through filing
fees, and a separate technology fund, part of which can
be used for technology training. "These funds give
us a great starting point," he said.
Unlike most other
professional public or private sector jobs, there's no
college curriculum or degree currently offered in court
administration, which makes training all the more
imperative, said Chuck
Ericksen,
executive director of the National Center for State
Courts' Institute
for Court Management (ICM).
"Training is a
fundamental responsibility of our courts," Ericksen
said. "Training should not come and go with good or
hard financial times. But it is a balancing act,
especially in tight budget times."
To acquire that balance,
Ericksen recommends the following steps:
Court
leaders must educate the funders - in most cases
legislators - on why judicial branch training is not a
luxury, but a necessity to safeguard the independence of
the courts.
For example, when it
comes to judges, Ericksen said the legislators' mindset
often is "well they're all lawyers aren't
they?" implying that anyone with a law degree can
officiate a trial. "We need to educate them as to
why being a lawyer is so different from being a
judge."
Or a court
administrator. Lynn Sudbeck, staff attorney for the
South Dakota courts who recently moved into
administration, has enrolled in an extensive court
management program. "Even though I'm an attorney
and have worked in the courts," Sudbeck said,
"I don't come from the administrative side, so this
training will be very valuable for me. I need to be able
to do our court's future planning, and my prior
education and experience didn't give me the skills or
knowledge necessary to successfully do that." D. J.
Hanson recommended Sudbeck enroll in ICM's Court
Executive Development Program,
of which Hanson is a graduate.
But educating the
legislators must go even further, Ericksen said, helping
them to understand why the responsibility for judicial
branch education should not be relegated to law schools.
Find
a cost-effective systematic approach for your state that
includes ongoing training.
"Courts are moving
away from expensive conferences, where they have to
spend a lot of money to send employees out of state for
training," Ericksen said. Instead, courts need to
have their own professionals trained to become faculty,
serving as their front-line educators. "We need
peers teaching peers," he said. "This reduces
the reliance on expensive consultants. By using their
own professionals as faculty, courts tend to weather the
financial storms more easily - when funding slips away,
they still have their faculty who can serve as the
backbone for curriculum development and educational
programming."
Bring
training programs into your state.
"At a fraction of
the cost of sending staff out of state for training, the
Institute for Court Management or the National Judicial
College can send their staff to you and prepare
curriculum that is tailored to your court's specific
needs," Ericksen said. This approach allows
training to reach more court staff and can provide the
groundwork for developing faculty within your own
courts.
Increasing distance
learning (or E-Learning)
is becoming another cost-effective method of providing
training. For Pam Neville, court administrator in New
Hampshire, the availability and cost-effectiveness of a
distance-learning course in grant management allowed her
to receive extended training. "I had taken one of
the courses on grant management earlier in Williamsburg,
and when I saw this course offered, I knew it would be a
great follow-up. With funding so tight, however, being
able to take this course and not travel, allowed me to
do it."
Behind-the-Scenes
Work of Court PIO Fills Vital Role
Sometimes J.W.
Brown has nothing to show as her best work. Such is the
life of a court public information officer (PIO).
Brown, communications director the for Trial Courts in
Maricopa County and the new president of the Conference
of Court Public Information Officers (CCPIO), says
raising the awareness of what public information
officers do for the courts is one of her priorities as
president. "The work we do is extremely valuable
for courts at all levels, from city courts to the U.S.
Supreme Court. But one of our biggest challenges is
getting the courts to understand what we do and the
importance of the PIO's work," Brown says.
"As I explained to one of my judges, ‘Sometimes
what you don't see is my hardest work,'" Brown
says, referring to potential court news that never makes
it into print or on television because of her
behind-the-scenes work convincing reporters chasing
inaccurate or untrue information that there's no story.
"This job takes building great relationships with
those in the courts and those in the media," she
says. "It takes a lot of trust."
It helps that Brown understands journalistic practices.
A former newspaper reporter for more than 20 years -
many spent covering courts and legal trends -
Brown has the knack for dealing with reporters in a way
that helps to educate the public about the courts.
"Most judges don't have the time to talk to
reporters, or they can't because of constraints imposed
by the judicial code of ethics. By having a public
information officer, the judges can focus on their jobs,
but still get the accurate information out to the
community," she says.
Over the past 15 years, the number of courts that have
created a PIO position has steadily increased. Although
no comprehensive data exists that shows how many courts
have public information officers, CCPIO has 81 members,
and Brown would like to see that increase. "It's
invaluable - you always have someone there for you who's
been there already, willing to share her or his
experience," she says of her membership.
The court PIO position initially was created to improve
the accuracy of news coverage. But the PIO's work
has evolved to include public education, community
outreach, legislative/government relations, and internal
and external communications - in addition to media
relations. In many courts that don't have PIOs, these
responsibilities are spread among existing staff members
who likely aren't trained in media relations - and are
used only when a crisis hits.
Because this profession is relatively new to the courts,
most existing PIOs don't work side-by-side with others
who've done the job before them - and that helped create
the need for the CCPIO.
Brown calls CCPIO "her safety net," because it
connects her through a listserv to others facing similar
professional daily challenges. The association holds an
annual conference that features a series of education
sessions and networking opportunities.
"It's an incredible network of friends," Brown
says. "I know somebody from New York to Hawaii who
does this job, and we truly help each other constantly
become more professional. It helps us avoid unnecessary
disasters because there's also someone out there who has
dealt with this problem before," Brown says.
"It makes us more valuable to our judges and
administrators, because it helps us know how to handle
situations before they strike. I'm less likely to be
like a deer caught in the headlights when something
comes up that I've never dealt with."
Raising the public's awareness of how the courts work is
another central part of the PIO's work, Brown said.
"People see courts as very difficult to understand,
very intimidating. We help to educate the public and we
encourage and enable the judges in ways to educate the
public. We can shine the light in on the courts,
diminishing distrust caused by unfamiliarity."
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Collaboration
on Social Problems Dominates State Court Trends
in 2003
Courts faced increasing challenges
from numerous social issues, such as divorce,
overcrowded prisons, and self-represented litigants, in
2003. They responded by collaborating more closely
with other institutions, such as legal aid societies and
child welfare agencies. Such collaboration was the
dominant trend tracked by the National Center for State
Courts' Knowledge and Information Services Office in its
annual Report on Trends in the State Courts.
The 2003
edition of the Trends Report,
released in January 2004, also tracks trends in several
other areas, including technology, interbranch
relations, and the role of the judge and jury in death
penalty cases.
The 2003
Report on Trends in the State Courts is
available online at www.ncsconline.org.
Print copies can be ordered from the National Center for
State Courts' online
bookstore for $10, or by contacting
the Knowledge
and Information Services Office.
Family-related issues were especially
prominent in state courts during 2003. Issues
ranged from expediting appeals involving children to
ensuring the physical and mental well being of children
as required by the Adoption and Safe Families Act of
1997. Other child-related topics examined in the
2003 Trends Report include the deficiency of national
information concerning adoptions, "safe haven"
legislation to protect abandoned infants, and the use of
"virtual visitation" for divorcing parents.
Also a challenge to the courts in 2003
was the growth of both public and personal technologies.
The Trends Report discusses how courts can use the
Justice XML Data Dictionary (JXDD) to improve sharing of
data and how courts can share data between themselves
and other institutions via enterprise or
service-oriented architecture. Another technological
challenge was the growth of personal handheld technology
- how can courts define and regulate the
"media" in the era of cellular camera phones
and other wireless technology?
The 2003 Trends Report also provides
"Updates" on the state court responses to the
current budget crunch and the current status of judicial
campaign conduct committees.
The report's "What to Watch"
section looks at the challenges posed to courts by
offenders who suffer from mental illness and changes to
the regulation of the legal profession. Another
look into the future is provided by the 2003
"Environmental Scan," which takes a deeper
look at political, economic, and cultural issues that
will affect (and are affecting) court operations
worldwide.
NCSC
International Staff Honored by the Mongolian Judiciary
Two staff members in the National
Center's International Program recently
received awards from Mongolia's General Council of
Courts (GCC) for their contributions to that country's
judiciary.
Heike
Gramckow, deputy director of
International Programs, and Charlie Ferrell, consultant,
are now considered Recognized Members of the Mongolian
Judiciary for their contributions to improving the court
system. Only twice before in the history of the GCC has
this award been presented to foreigners.
Gramckow was recognized for her
contributions of providing international comparative
information for many of the change processes the
Mongolian judiciary is experiencing, such as the
different organizational structures for judicial
councils, information about approaches to downsizing the
number of judges without interfering with their judicial
independence, and a workload study that provides for the
first time detailed information about staffing needs and
how judges spend their time.
Ferrell worked in Mongolia for NCSC's
Judicial Reform Program for three years. Under his
direction, nearly 75 percent of the court's caseload was
moved to automated systems - only one court was using
case tracking software before Ferrell started. As a
result of the automation, the courts also established
public information terminals that allow the public to
check on the status and outcome of cases.
Judges,
Court Administrators Need Better Understanding of Each
Others' Roles
Breaking with tradition, judges and
court administrators recently held a joint midyear
meeting for the first time in hopes of learning more
about each other's role in the justice system. The American
Judges Association (AJA)) and the National Association
for Court Management (NACM) met in
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2004.
The meeting probed the "extremely
important relationship" between the judge and the
court administrator, said NACM president Lawrence
Meyers, court administrator of the Joplin, Mo.,
Municipal Court. "Running the courts means
more than just working together," he said.
"It means understanding the role of the judge and
court administrator." Meyers hopes this
meeting will lead to a joint planning committee to
address the needs of court leadership.
AJA President Michael McAdam, a judge
of the Kansas City, Mo., Municipal Court, agreed with
Meyers.
"The goal of this joint meeting
is to have judges and court clerks share educational
programs and social activities in the hopes of breaking
down some of the barriers that exist between us,"
he said. "Our two organizations . . .
represent members from every state in the country, and
we can always learn from our colleagues about how to
better serve the public and improve our system of
justice."
The judges and court administrators
started their joint meeting with a discussion on
"Unequal Treatment from the Justice System:
Fact or Myth?" Other educational sessions
included court interpretation, overcoming the barriers
caused by poverty to equal treatment, and drug courts.
The National Center for State Courts
provides professional assistance and services to AJA,
NACM, and other national court-related associations.
AJA president
Michael McAdams, judge, Kansas City, Mo., Municipal
Court and NACM president Larry Meyers, court
administrator, Joplin, Mo., Municipal Court
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NCSC President Search in High Gear
A search
committee made up of court and legal
professionals from around the country is expected in
March to begin interviewing qualified candidates for the
position of president of the National Center for State
Courts.
Roger K. Warren, president of the
National Center, announced his plans to resign effective
August 2004 to the National Center's Board of Directors
during a meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 22.
The National Center Board immediately
formed a search committee, chaired by Wisconsin Chief
Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the Board's chair-elect. The
committee recently hired the search firm Isaacson,
Miller to help in the recruitment and selection process.
As part of the process, the committee
reevaluated the president's position to prepare an
updated job description that ensures the president's
role continues to meet the evolving needs of the
nation's state courts and court associations. To
accomplish this, committee members interviewed members
of the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of
State Court Administrators, and NCSC's staff.
The search committee's timeframe is to
accept applications through the end of February, to
screen and interview potential candidates in March, and
to narrow the list to between one and three candidates
by the NCSC Board meeting in April, at which time they
anticipate selecting Warren's successor.
Warren says he's remaining in his
position through August "so the change in
leadership doesn't cause any disruption to the National
Center's constituents or staff." Warren was
appointed NCSC president in 1996 after serving more than
20 years as a judge in Sacramento, Calif.
Aside from Chief Justice Abrahamson,
search committee members include Daniel Becker, state
court administrator, Utah; Curtis Barnette, of counsel,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Judge Gayle A.
Nachtigal, Washington County, Oregon; and Thomas A.
Gottschalk, executive vice president & general
counsel, General Motors.
Revised
Caseflow Management Due in Spring
NCSC's most in-demand publication,
David Steelman's Caseflow
Management: The Heart of Court Management in the New
Millennium, is being revised
for a third printing and will be available in late
March. The reprint has been redesigned in a
user-friendly format with larger pages and more white
space. "It will be easier on the eyes," said
Steelman, "and with more space, the presentation of
text is arranged on the pages so that it's easier to
grasp topic divisions and the logical flow of
information."
"The second printing sold out
faster than anticipated," said Sara Lewis, NCSC
communications director. A surge of sales in late 2003
depleted NCSC's second printing inventory.
The text of the third printing remains
unchanged. Appendix A, which includes the National
Association for Court Management's Caseflow Management
Curriculum Guidelines, has been revised with the latest
version, published by NACM in the Court Manager in the
summer of 2003.
Self
Help Support Site Offered
www.selfhelpsupport.org
The National Center for State Courts has launched an
online resource center for pro se practitioners called
selfhelpsupport.org. Collaborating with the National
Center on this project - funded through the State
Justice Institute - were the American Judicature
Society, the Legal Services Corporation, Zorza
Associates, Probono.net, and the SJI.
This Web site is designed to serve as
a virtual meeting place for people who provide pro se
assistance, direct pro se programs in the courts, or are
involved in any capacity with self-help courts. In using
the site, members can share documents and information,
create listservs, distribute mass mailings, and network
with other professionals in the field. The site offers
an "Add a Resource" feature, which allows
members to upload documents onto the Web site to share
with the online community.
"Our hope is that through
selfhelpsupport.org specific improvements and
developments in providing pro se assistance will benefit
many as we disseminate relevant information on self-help
and legal aid programs to practitioners in the courts,
community, and legal profession," said Madelynn
Herman, NCSC knowledge management analyst, who helped
develop the site.
Membership is free. To join the site,
go to www.selfhelpsupport.org,
click on "Join this Area," located on the left
side of the page, and fill out the membership form.
"The larger the membership, the more effective the
site becomes, so registered members are asked to
recommend the site to others in the field" Herman
said.
At the core of the site is an online
library of resources collected from pro se programs,
courts, and agencies. More than 400 scanned items, links
to articles and reports, and original documents are
organized into 16 subject folders with headings like
Program Development, Collaborative Efforts, Judicial
Resources, and Program Outreach.
Jur-E
Bulletin All the Rage
The relatively new Jur-E
Bulletin, a weekly e-newsletter
that focuses on "all things jury," is steadily
attracting a loyal following. Since its May 2003 launch,
the Bulletin's readership, which includes jury
administrators, judges, academics, and consultants, has
grown to more than 650. The e-newsletter is published by
the Center for Jury Studies, Jury Community of Practice,
and Knowledge and Information Services at the National
Center for State Courts.
The Bulletin
has gained a reputation for its creative, lively
approach to jury news. For example, in the January 9,
2004 edition a section titled "Martha, Martha,
Martha" (about guess who) ran an article called
"Could Martha's tormentors just be jealous that
they can't make meringue monograms?" which was
popular with readers. But the No. 1 "hit" that
week was "The Dog Ate My Summons" about an
Arizona judge who presides over a "scofflaw juror
court."
These articles ran alongside other
newsy items about the Report on Trends in
the State Courts, jurors in the Malvo
sniper trial, and a Texas commentator who maintains that
mistrials and acquittals are signs of a healthy jury
system.
Professor Nancy King, the co-chair of
the AJS Jury Center and professor of law at Vanderbilt,
remarked that the Jur-E Bulletin
is "just what the American jury community needs to
keep up-to-date with current affairs."
To have the Jur-E Bulletin
e-mailed to you automatically each Friday, visit: www.ncsconline.org/Newsletters/NCSC_newsletters.htm.
For an index of back issues, visit: www.ncsconline.org/WC/Publications/KIS_JurInnJurEPub.pdf.
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Georgia
Chief Justice First to Receive Award
Chief Justice of Georgia Norman S.
Fletcher is the first recipient of the Harry L. Carrico
Award for Judicial Innovation, presented by the National
Center for State Courts. Chief Justice Fletcher was
presented the award January 20 at the midyear meeting of
the Conference of Chief Justices in San Francisco.
The award is named after retired Chief
Justice of Virginia Harry L. Carrico, who was involved
in founding the National Center in 1971. Chief Justice
Carrico served on the National Center's Board of
Directors from 1987 to 1990, serving as chair from 1989
to 1990. The award - created last year when Chief
Justice Carrico retired - was established to honor a
sitting chief justice or justice who has inspired,
sponsored, promoted, or led an innovation of national
significance in the field of judicial administration.
Chief Justice Fletcher was honored for
his leadership improving the indigent defense system. He
is credited for being the driving force behind the Chief
Justice's Commission on Indigent Defense, which resulted
in the passage of groundbreaking legislation to improve
Georgia's indigent defense system. "It is fair to
say that Chief Justice Fletcher staked the success of
his term of office on championing the constitutional
rights of the poor and disadvantaged," said Chief
Justice of California Ronald George, who presented the
award. "His leadership, his innovative thinking and
methods, and his accomplishments in indigent defense in
Georgia set an example for other states and judiciaries
to follow," said George, who is the president of
CCJ and the current chair of the NCSC Board.
National
Center marks 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of
Education
May 17 marks the 50th anniversary of
the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board
of Education. To prepare for this historic event,
the National Center for State Courts has explored
numerous ways to help state courts celebrate and reflect
on this landmark court case. They include:
• Helping to sponsor and plan
the 16th annual meeting of the National Consortium on
Race and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts being held April
14-17 at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The meeting's theme is "Fifty Years After Brown:
A National Dialogue on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the
Courts." Registration is open to all, and it is
available by calling (800) 616-6165.
• Developing on original
curriculum about the decision to be used by judges when
they visit middle and high schools. NCSC is working with
the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts
on this project. The curriculum will be available for
download from both the NCSC and Washington State Web
sites after the April conference.
• Creating a user-friendly
database that outlines key findings and recommendations
from nearly 30 reports of judiciary-sponsored
commissions and task forces on race and ethnic fairness
in the courts. This database will be available through
the NCSC Web site at www.ncsconline.org
after the April conference.
NCSC
Technology Events Inform, Link Justice System
The diversity of topics, the ability
to network with colleagues from around the world, and
the extensive vendor show, topped many participants'
list of what they found most valuable at NCSC's 8th
Court Technology Conference.
More than 2,300 people representing
courts from around the United States and 30 countries
attended the October conference in Kansas City, Mo.
"I compliment you on the range of
topics and issues covered. However the best
feature was the opportunity to discuss matters of mutual
concern with so many colleagues from so many different
places," wrote one participant. Comments like this
reassured planners that CTC's broad scope provides
attendees with the greatest value.
CTC9
is scheduled for Sept. 13 -15, 2005 in Seattle.
While multiple education tracks and
big issue presenters are a drawing card for CTC, its
biannual little brother touts a focused approach. E-Courts
2004: Linking the Legal System will
be held in Las Vegas at the Mirage Hotel on December
13-15, 2004.
E-Courts will examine the creation of
the digital legal system and uses the paper clip as its
icon. "The paper clip symbolizes linking systems
both in and outside the courthouse," said Jim
McMillan, NCSC principal court management consultant and
E-Courts planner. "But paper clips can be bent to
form other tools and E-Courts will look at many of them
in conjunction with other facets of electronic linking
systems."
Real world reports on E-Filing and
Privacy and Public Access will be covered along with new
technology in web services, XML integration, and new
document production and preservation systems.
Opportunities for education and discussion will help
policy makers plan and position their courts to optimize
their investment in technology. For more information,
visit www.e-courts.org.
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Jury
Reform Program Moves Forward
It was a concept hatched three years
ago at the first-ever National Jury Summit, held in New
York City in 2001. And now that idea - finding ways to
involve the public more in the jury system - is becoming
a reality.
The National Program to Increase
Citizen Participation in Jury Service has acquired the
necessary funding from law firms, foundations and other
organizations to begin its work. The National
Center for State Courts heads the program and
works in collaboration with the Council for Court
Excellence in Washington, D.C., and the Trial Court
Leadership Center of Maricopa County, Arizona.
The program's mission is to promote
public awareness and understanding of jury service and
to support state and local courts' efforts to improve
the jury system. In addition, the program will deliver
the tools and technical assistance needed by judges,
attorneys, and court administrators to meet these
objectives.
To get off the ground, the program is
developing a "State of the States" compendium
of jury reforms and "prescriptive packages" in
high-priority areas. In order to determine the
"State of the States," NCSC is creating
surveys to target local courts, legal practitioners, and
state courts. Survey questions focus on learning the
status of jury improvement and reform efforts throughout
the country. With this information "prescriptive
packages" will be developed, which will describe
the most highly recommended jury practices in four
areas:
• Improving response to jury
summons
• Improving jury instructions
• Draft legislative and rule models
• Urban courts
These packages - which will be
available through the National Center, the National
Judicial College, and state judicial education programs
- can provide technical assistance to courts.
Depending on continued funding, future
plans include identifying and selecting the first courts
for implementation, creating individualized
implementation plans, providing direct technical
assistance, and documenting and disseminating best
practices about programs evaluated.
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National
Center for State Courts'
Board of Directors for 2003-2004
Chair:
Chief Justice of California Ronald M. George
Vice-Chair: Michael Buenger, State Court
Administrator, Supreme Court of Missouri
Chair-elect: Chief Justice of Wisconsin Shirley S.
Abrahamson
Vice-Chair-elect: Daniel Becker, State Court
Administrator, Supreme Court of Utah
Curtis Hank Barnette, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom, Washington, D.C.
*Reuben O. Carrerou, Court Administrator, Eleventh
Judicial Circuit, Florida
Judge Charles R. Cloud, Norfolk, VA
Zelda M. DeBoyes, Court Administrator, Aurora Municipal
Court, CO
Judge Gerald T. Elliott, Tenth Judicial District of
Kansas
Judge Hilda R. Gage, Michigan Court of Appeals
Thomas A. Gottschalk, Executive Vice President and
General Counsel, General Motors Corp.
Chief Judge of New York Judith S. Kaye, Immediate Past
Chair
Judge Elizabeth Keever, Twelfth Judicial District, North
Carolina
Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York
Judge Gary L. Lumpkin, Court of Criminal Appeals,
Oklahoma
Ruth W. McIntyre, Seattle, Washington
*E. Leo Milonas, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, New York, NY
Jack B. Middleton, McLane, Graf, Rauleron &
Middleton, Manchester, NH
Lawrence G. Myers, Municipal Court Administrator,
Missouri
Judge Gayle A. Nachtigal, Washington County, Oregon
*Charles B. Renfrew, Law Offices of Charles B. Renfrew,
San Francisco, CA
Chief Justice of Indiana Randall T. Shepard
Judge Michael S. Spearman, King County Superior Court,
Seattle, WA
Judge Sandra A. Thompson, Superior Court, Torrance, CA
Immediate Past Vice-Chair Patricia Tobias,
Administrative Director of the Courts, Idaho
Roger K. Warren, President of the National Center for
State Courts
*
indicates a new member
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