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15 Oyez Oyez Bull. Sec. Jud. Admin. 1 (1972)

handle is hein.journals/oyzoyz15 and id is 1 raw text is: 9 The Bulletin of the Section of J oyez! rudicial Administration e! VOL. 15, NO. 1 FEBRUARY 1972 CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN Louis H. Burke, Chairman Justice, Supreme Court of California The American Bar Association and many of the leaders of this Section of Judicial Administration past and present can take a great deal of personal pride in the launching of the new National Center for State Courts. It is now incorporated, with temporary offices located at 725 Madison Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. Its first Director, Justice Winslow Christian of the Court of Appeal of California, on leave from his court duties, has taken office and its first Board of Directors, elected from a list of nominees submitted by the ten national Louis H. Burke organizations which cooperated in the formation of the Center, has held two meetings. A strong Advisory Committee, on which each of the cooperating organizations is directly represented, has likewise had its first meeting, under the leadership of Chairman Orison S. Marden of New York, former president of the American Bar Association. A preliminary draft of the By-Laws has been reviewed by each of the cooperating organizations, various suggestions have been received and are now under consideration by a committee on by-laws headed by the Chairman of the Board, Justice Paul C. Reardon of Massachusetts, a former chairman of this Section. At the recent National Conference on the Judiciary held in Williamsburg in March, 1971 the Chief Justice of the United States strongly urged the establishment of the Center and was supported in this move by the President of the United States in the latter's address to the Conference. Initial funding has been by private foundations and grants by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The Chief Justice in his address called upon the officers of the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society and the Institute of Judicial Administration to pull the laboring oars in the formation efforts and turned to the Conference of Chief Justices of the States to form a committee to assist in getting the job done. Prominent in these efforts were Earl Morris, former president of the ABA, Mr. Marden and Gerald Snyder, former president of Judicature. The main purpose of the Center is to become as its name implies, a national center to improve the administration of justice in the state courts. An early determination of the organizing committee was that its governing board should be comprised entirely of active state court judges truly representative of the leadership of the state appellate and trial courts of the nation. The movement for the Center got under way with such enthusiasm and speed that some concern has been expressed that the Center would take over operations of organizations which have been working in the field of improvement of judicial administration for many years. However, this concern is baseless, witness the clear declaration of intent on the part of the Center, as set forth in its articles of incorporation, that it is designed to assist, supplement and coordinate, but not to supplant, activities of organizations functioning in the field of judicial administration. Also included in its articles are provisions whereby any judicial or judicially related organization may be invited to become a cooperating organization of the Center, establish offices in the Center should that be feasible, and conduct its programs and operations from there, with facilities of the Center to be made available to assist. The Director has already written to each of the cooperating organizations calling their attention to these provisions and inviting consideration of them. In doing so he has recognized that it will not be possible and may not even be desirable for some of the organizations with offices and affiliations of their own to locate directly with the Center, but this will not in any way minimize the role of the Center to assist each and every such organization. A Committee of the Board on Site is studying the numerous proposals received for the location of the site or sites for buildings to house the Center's activities. It is expected that the Center will work in close cooperation with organizations engaged in continuing judicial education such as the National College of the State Judiciary, the American Academy for Judicial Education, (continued on page 2)

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