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26 Judges J. 1 (1987)

handle is hein.journals/judgej26 and id is 1 raw text is: Court News Roundup JAD Now Provides Home for Nonlawyer Court Administrators The Judicial Administration Division at its 1987 Midyear Meeting changed its bylaws to allow non- lawyer persons engaged in the field of judicial administration to join the Division's Lawyers Con- ference as judicial associates. Lawyers Conference chairman Eugene J. Murret, attorney and Judicial Administrator for the Supreme Court of Louisiana said that the JAD welcomes all court administra- tors into the Judicial Administration Division. This is an important group whose ideas we need to hear. By bringing them into the JAD, we will involve an important new constituency in the Division's efforts to help solve the problems affecting our courts. The category judicial associates is defined as: persons who have received a degreee in judicial administration from an accredited college or university, fellows of the Institute for Court Management, persons who are employed full- time as instructors in degree-granting judicial administration programs at accredited colleges and universities or the Institute for Court Man- agernent Court Executive Development Pro- gram, or non-judge executive administrative officers of the courts and their chief deputies. Associate membership is available only to non- lawyers for $60, which includes a $20 fee for JAD membership and an additional $40 fee for required ABA Associate membership. For additional infor- mation please write: ABA Judicial Administration Division, 750 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60611. ABA Plays Major Role In Securing Federal Judicial Salary Increases When Congress, on February 3, 1987, agreed to in- crease pay for judges and other federal officials in- cluding legislators, one of the primary justifications for doing so was to ensure that the quality of the federal judiciary remain high. The primary voice making this argument was the American Bar Asso- ciation, which has led the fight for improved judicial compensation. both federal and state. In a January 12 letter to the Democratic and Re- publican leaders in both the House and Senate, American Bar Association President Eugene C. Thomas said: Judicial salaries are disproportion- ately low in comparison with salaries paid to simi- larly qualified and experienced lawyers in the private sector.... The differential threatens the quality and independence of our federal court system. Thomas also said that judicial resignations were a serious consequence of inadequate compensation and noted that 30 judges had resigned in the 1980s, many be- cause of the pay, compared with only seven in the 1950s. Giving testimony before Congress is but a part of the ABA's efforts to improvejudicial compensation, which ranges from providing information to actively urging state and local bar association leaders to lobby legislators for their support. Improving judicial salaries and benefits has been a primary legislative goal of the American Bar As- sociation for years. In the latest round, federal judges and magistrates on February 5 received the follow- ing raises: from $81,100 to $89,500 for federal dis- trict judges: from $85,700 to $95,000 for circuit judges; from $70,300 to $82,500 for claims court judges: and from $70,500 to $72,500 for bankruptcy judges and federal magistrates. On the U.S. Supreme Court, salaries of associate justices went from $107,200 to $110,000, and the chief justice from $111,700 to $ 115,000. Salaries for congressmen were raised from $77,400 to $89,500. However, the new salary increases, as originally proposed by President Reagan, fall far short of what the Commission on Executive, Legislative and Ju- dicial Salaries (the Quadrennial Commission), and the ABA Federal Judicial Compensation Commis- sion (FJCC) had requested for federal judges. For example, under the Quadrennial Commission's pro- posal federal district judge salaries were set at $130,000, while the ABA Commission recom- mended $102,800. stressing that its judicial salary recommendations were to be considered a floor for increases and that much higher salaries were jus- tified. Although the ABA has for years had improving judicial compensation as its main goal, the latest federal efforts began in December 1983, when the Winter 1987

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