As important cases dealing with information policy issues come before the
nation’s courts, judges need to keep on top of everything happening in our
field. Judges, judicial educators, and judicial administrators are eager to
learn all they can about new developments in information management,
technology, and policy. So where better to find information experts
discussing the latest issues than at the AALL Annual Meeting?
Supported by a grant to AALL from the State Justice Institute, seventeen
state judges and other judicial officials from around the nation will
attend the Sunday and Monday educational programs and social events with our
members at the Annual Meeting in Washington. In keeping with President
James Heller’s goal to foster closer relationships with other segments of
the legal community and to share our educational programming, a grant was
sought late in 1997 to cover travel and hotel expenses for judicial
participants. After the award of $15,000 was announced in the spring of
1998, Heller appointed a committee of State, Court, and County Law Libraries
SIS members--Carol Billings, who wrote the grant application, Jean Holcomb,
Marcia Koslov, and Gail Warren--to devise a mechanism for recruiting and
inviting grant recipients.
At last year’s Annual Meeting SCCLL SIS members were encouraged to nominate
officials from their state court systems. The committee also compiled a
list of fifteen major judicial institutions and organizations and sent an
invitation to the top officer in each. The response has been excellent.
Acceptances had been received from the following officials:
Judge Frederic B. Rodgers, Chair ABA Judicial Division, Golden Colorado
Judge John N. Kirkendall, Chair Technology Cross Conference Committee, ABA
Judicial Division, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Judge Shirley Strickland-Saffold, President, American Judges Association,
Cleveland, Ohio
Mr. Chuck Erickson, Acting Director, Institute for Court Management,
National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, Virginia
Ms. Jeanie Forrest, Program Coordinator, Institute of Judicial
Administration, New York University
Dr. Maureen Conner, Executive Director, Judicial Education Reference,
Information and Technical Transfer Project (JERITT), East Lansing, Michigan
Ms. Jennae Rozeboom, JERITT Project, East Lansing Michigan
Mr. Joseph A. Lane, President, National Conference of Appellate Court
Clerks, Los Angeles, California
Mr. Lawrence S. Okinaga, President, American Judicature Society, Honolulu,
Hawaii
Judge Sheila Murphy, Vice-President, National Association of Women Judges,
Markham, Illinois
Mr. Percy R. Luney, Jr., President, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada
Judge Judith Ford, Oakland-Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal Court, Alameda
County, California
Judge Patricia Clark, Superior Court of King County, Seattle, Washington
Judge Michael G. Harrison, ABA Judicial Division: Immediate Past Chair of
the National Conference of State Trial Judges, Lansing, Michigan
Judge William H. Woodland, Idaho Sixth Judicial District and Chair of the
Idaho Supreme Court’s Statewide Technology Committee, Pocatello, Idaho
Justice Dale V. Sandstrom, North Dakota Supreme Court, Bismarck, North
Dakota
Mr. John T. Olivier, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, New Orleans,
LA
Members of the SCCLL SIS will serve as hosts for the SJI guests,
accompanying them to both programs and social events, where they will have
many opportunities to interact with AALL members. The Association has
waived registration fees for the grantees to enable the grant funds to be
spread among more officials. The State Justice Institute is a federally
funded quasi-governmental corporation established by Congress to support the
states in improving the administration of justice. One of its primary
initiatives is the education of judges and judicial personnel. AALL
received a similar SJI grant in 1995.
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Anne Myers
Head of Technical Services
Boston University Law Library
765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Ph: 617-353-8877 Fax: 617-353-5995
Email: amyers@bu.edu
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