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7 Oyez Oyez Bull. Sec. Jud. Admin. [1] (1964)

handle is hein.journals/oyzoyz7 and id is 1 raw text is: 0yCZ! The Bulletin of the Section of Judicial Administration CONFERENCE FOR APPELLATE JUDGES RECOMMENDED Creation of the Appellate Judges' Conference as an activity of the Section will be recommended by the Council of the Section at the midyear meeting of the House of Delegates of the ABA. The objectives of the new organization, set forth in the recommendation, are (1) promoting the effective func- tioning of the appellate courts by conferences, seminars and other programs and (2) maintaining facilities for the collection and dissemination of information of individual justices or judges with regard to the problems of appellate courts. Membership will be open to appellate judges of both the state and federal systems who belong to the Section. No extra dues will be charged. Appellate judges who are presently members of the Section will be eligible for char- ter membership. It is the plan of the organizing committee to hold an organizational meeting of the Conference at the Annual Meeting of the Section in New York this summer. A sub- stantive program is also under consideration, to be coordin- ated with the meeting of the National Conference of State Trial Judges. Members of the organizing committee, which met in New York in October are: Hon. Gerald F. Flood, Phila- delphia, Chairman, Hon. Louis H. Burke, Los Angeles, Hon. George W. Hardy, Jr., Shreveport, Tlon. David W. Car- mody, Santa Fe, Hon. Edward Gaulkin, Newark, Hon. Paul C. Reardon, Boston, and Hon. E. Harold Hallows, Madison. Justices Carmody and Hallows and Judge Hardy were appointed to the Committee on Membership. Early in 1963, at the suggestion of Sylvester C. Smith, Jr., then President of the ABA, a special committee of the Section was appointed to study the feasibility of establish- ing a separate entity within the Section devoted to the needs and problems of appellate judges and appellate courts. A questionnaire was sent by the committee to the 550 state appellate judges. Abo'tt half responded promptly. Two-thirds of those replying favored the proposal. The answers to the questionnaire indicated that the appellate judges desired an organization which would pro- vide a clearing house for new ideas and put on programs to stimulate discussion of problems facing state and federal appellate courts. This would include length and style of opinions, jurisdictional problems, workloads, the super- visory role of appellate courts, and selection, tenure and compensation of appellate judges. THE CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN To the members of the Section of Judicial Administration: The response to our invitation for more active lawyer participation in the work of the Section has been most encouraging. Since the last annual meeting over 60 mem- bers of the House of Delegates have enrolled. In Washing- ton, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ver- mont, and Wyoming, all members of the House are enrolled in the Section, and in most other states we have a majority of the House membership. The general membership solicitation under the able leadership of Judge Robert C. Finley of the Supreine Court of Washington is underway. Membership Committees have been organized in each state. We need the cooperation of all members of the Section to attain a membership which will insure the most satisfactory results. In addition to the efforts of Judge Finley's committee, the National Conference of State Trial Judges has undertaken a membership drive to enlist the support of all eligible trial judges. Judge William O'Neill of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is heading this campaign. The Section should grow as the result of two other recent William J. Jameson developments. The first is the creation of the Appellate Judge's Conference, which is reported elsewhere on this page. And the second is the reactivation of our state chairmen. In each of the fifty states the Section has an outstanding lawyer or judge whose responsibility it is to keep himself and the Sction headquarters informed on developments in judicial administration. It is our hope to publish a special issue of Oyez! Oyez! this summer devoted to a state-by-state coverage of these developments and an analysis of national trends. If we continue to get the cooperation we have been from our state chairmen, this publication should be a valuable addi- tion to every lawyer's and every judge's collection of mate- rials on judicial administration. The Section is continuing its active participation in the outstanding program of the Joint Committee for the Effec- tive Administration of Justice, of which Mr. Justice Clark is chairman. The work of this committee will terminate dur- (Continued on page 4) $IT~7%~O 1 /FEBRUARY. 1984 V~N ez

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