The National Campaign to Ensure the Racial and Ethnic
Fairness of America's State Courts is designed to mobilize
the significant expertise, experience, and commitment of
state court judges and court officers to ensure both the
perception and reality of racial and ethnic fairness
across the nation's state courts. Phase
I resulted in an interactive database of promising
programs to achieve racial and ethnic fairness in five key
areas:
• Diverse and representative state judicial workforces;
• Fair and unbiased behaviors on the part of judges,
court staff, attorneys, and others subject to court
authority in the courthouse;
• Comprehensive, system-wide improvements to reduce
racial and ethnic disparities in criminal, domestic
violence, juvenile, and abuse and neglect cases;
• The availability of timely and high-quality services
to improve access to the courts for
limited-English-proficient persons; and
• Diverse and representative juries.
Phase II is developing national
resources and provide technical assistance on implicit
bias, an issue relevant to each of the five key areas and
central to fair and unbiased behaviors in the courthouse.
The National Center for State Courts conducts the Campaign
with funding from the Open Society Institute and the State
Justice Institute. A Steering Committee of representatives
from several national court organizations guides the work
of the Campaign and encourages and supports state efforts.
In addition, each state participates in the Campaign
through a primary contact appointed by the state’s chief
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A Steering Committee of representatives from national judicial leadership organizations guides the work of the Campaign.
Ronald T.Y. Moon, Chair (CCJ)
Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Hawaii
Robert M. Bell (CCJ)
Chief Judge
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Anna Blackburne-Rigsby (NAWJ)
Judge
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Karla M. Gray (CCJ)
Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Montana
Clarance J. Jones (NCREFC)
Judge
Superior Court of Connecticut
L Dew Kaneshiro (NCREFC)
LDK Consulting
Marilyn Kelly (NCREFC)
Justice
Michigan Supreme Court
Kathleen Sikora (NASJE)
Consultant
Ronald E. Truss (NACM)
Magistrate/AAPJ
City of Birmingham Municipal Court
A. John Voelker (COSCA)
Director of State Courts
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
The Steering Committee represents the following participating organizations:
Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ)
Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA)
National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts (NCREFC)
National Association for Court Management (NACM)
National Association of State Judicial Educators (NASJE)
National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) |
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The primary contacts were appointed by the Chief Justice for each state.
Alabama
Callie Dietz
Administrative Director of the Courts
Alaska
Robert Eastaugh
Justice
Arizona
Mike Baumstark
Deputy Director of the AOC
Arkansas
Leon Jamison
Circuit Judge
California
James R. Lambden
Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal
William J. Murray, Jr.
Assistant Presiding Judge of the
Superior Court of California
Donna Clay-Conte
Senior Attorney
Colorado
Alex Martinez
Justice
Connecticut
Lubbie Harper, Jr.
Judge
Deborah J. Fuller
Director, External Affairs
District of Colombia
Inez Smith Reid
Judge
Delaware
Kenneth S. Clark, Jr.
Judge
Florida
Elisabeth H. Goodner
State Court Administrator
Georgia
Carol W. Hunstein
Presiding Justice, Chair, GA Commission on Access & Fairness in the Courts
Silvia A. Gaines
Program Manager, GA Commission on Access & Fairness in the Courts
Guam
Perry C. Taitano
Administrator of the Courts
Hawaii
Thomas R. Keller
Administrative Director of the Courts
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