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. The Campaign includes four phases: (1) the compilation of state efforts and promising practices in five key issue areas, drawn from the experiences of individual jurisdictions from across the country; (2) development of state tactical plans to address key areas and development of a national action plan to provide leadership, coordination, information sharing and technical assistance in support of the state tactical plans; (3) implementation of state tactical plans with the assistance of national organizations; and (4) assessment of the implementation of state tactical plans.
The key areas include:
• 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.
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 justice. |
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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
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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