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Metro-Detroit Judges Meet With Community
on Child Violence
by Judge Gregory Holiday
Detroit, IA
o Wednesday, August 21, 2UU2,
while ABA President A. P.
Carlton, Jr. was in Detroit
holding hearings on and garnering support
for, his initiative on the 21st Century
Judiciary, somie of metro-Detroit's judges
had their own equally important agenda.
The judges were meeting and talking with
members of the community about the
alarming rate of child violence this year.
Detroit, home to former Mayor and
current ABA P'resident-Elect Definis W
Archer, has seen a skyrocketing of child
violence during the first half of
2002. From kids
shooting them-
selves and others
with guns, to
drug dealers
spraying homes
in drive-by
shooting - all of
these and more
have brought
metro- Detroit's
c o m m u n r r y Judge Shiala Gibson-Mainting spe
together in many triolknce in metro Detroit Standin
venues. Gregory Holiday.
This meeting was billed as a Great Hall
Series Special Event at Detroit's historic
Fort Street Church entitled, Child
Violence in MIetro-Detroit - The Role of
Judges in Solving This Horrific Problem.
With the ABA Justice Center underwriting
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the costs of the event, Judge Gregory
Holiday, chair of the JD Standing
Committee on.Minorities in the Judiciary,
engaged participating judges and
community members in a spirited
discussion and search for solutions. Mayor
Kwame Kilpatrick has said, the only way
we're going to solve [the problem of child
violence] is to get the community to step
up in a mighty way and wrap our arms
around our children.
Clearly, netro-Deroit's judges have
taken an active role in combating child
violence. Many of the judges are
participating
in after-hours
programs where
they meet with
lids one on one
in an effort
to redirect
theim' toward
school, family
and community.
Judges noted that
'aks out a c utr toorrb cbild many delingtlioi
g in background k ludge children feel they
have nothing to
lose hecause no one has concern for their
welfare.
Ironically, Wayne County, where
Detroit is situated, is receiving rave reviews
for one model program that addresses the
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Judicial Clerkship
Program Wins
Meritorious Service
Award
by Justice Frank Sullivan
Inldiantapolis, IN.
T he ABA Section Officers
Conference Meritorious Service
Award for 2002 was presented to
the Judicial Division (JD) for
co-sponsoring (with the ABA's
Commission on Racial and Ethnic
Diversity in the Profession) an annual
judicial Clerkship Program that
encourages minority law students to
seek judicial clerkships. The Appellate
Judges Conference (AJC) had principal
responsibility within the JD for the
Program in 2002 and LexisNexis
provided generous financial support.
Pictured on page 4 holding the award
are JD Immediate Past Chair judge
Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court
of Appeals (9th Cir.), Judicial Clerkship
Program Co-chair Justice Frank Sullivan,
Jr., of the Indiana Supreme Court; and
AJC Immediate Past Chair Judge Danny
J. Boggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals
(6th Cir.). The other Co-chair of the
Judicial Clerkship Program was Judge
Vicki Miles-LaGrange of the Federal
District Court (W.D. Okla.).
The Judicial Clerkship Program,
attended by 42 minority law students
from 13 law schools throughout the
country, took place at the ABA Midyear
Meeting in Philadelphia earlier this year.
Over parts of three days, the Program
brought the students together with
approximately one dozen Judges and
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