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26 Syllabus 1 (1995)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus26 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar * Volume XXVI, Number I * Winter 1995 ABA Issues First Comprehensive Listing of Minority Judges C alifornia has more African- American (149) and Asian/Pacific Islander (92) judges serving in U.S. and state courts than any other jurisdiction in the country. But Texas has the most Hispanic judges (353), and the most minority judges overall (403). California, Texas, and Washington State tie for first place in the number of Native American judges in nontribal courts, but each has only three. Several states have only one minority judge: Idaho, Iowa, and Nebraska, each with one African-American; Mon- tana, with an Hispanic; and Ver- mont, with an Asian/Pacific Islander. These facts emerge in the first known directory of minority judges in the United States, published by the American Bar Association's Task Force on Opportunities for Minorities in the Judiciary. For further informa- tion, see the charts on page 16. This directory fills a critical information void for every person and organization concerned with issues of racial and ethnic diversity in our courts. It will help to make justice real as it is perceived by all members of our society, said ABA President George E. Bushnell, Jr. The Directory of Minority ludges in the U.S. lists 2,390 judges, and is current as of April 1994. The judges include 1,309 African-Americans, 210 Asian/Pacific Islanders, 848 His- panics, and 23 Native Americans. The directory does not list Native American judges who preside in trib- al courts, although they will be included in the next edition. Municipal Court Judge Benjamin Aranda HI of Torrance, California, who initiated the directory, is com- piling information on tribal courts and other revisions for a subsequent edition. The directory is divided into four sections by minority category. In each, there is a state-by-state listing. Under each state is an alphabetized list of federal judges followed by an alphabetized list of state judges. A table at the front of the directory gives state totals in each category. Conceived as a networking tool for minority lawyers and judges, the directory was undertaken by the task force, a project of the ABA Judicial Administration Division, as one means to facilitate increasing the number of minorities in the judiciary. Copies are available for $49.95. For members of the Judicial Administra- tion Division, the price is $39.95. With each order, there is an addition- al handling charge of $4.95. To order, call the ABA at 312/988-5522. E] Erwin N. Griswold Dies at 90 E rwin N. Griswold, 90, of Belmont and Washing- ton, D.C., died on Saturday, November 19, 1994, in the Massachu- setts General Hospital. Griswold's 65-year legal career made him one of the dominant fig- ures in American law during the 20th century. Griswold served on the Harvard Law School fac- ulty for 33 years-21 of them as Dean-as U.S. Solicitor General under two presidents, and as a practitioner with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, DC, since 1973. He was a champion of civil rights, and a foe of McCarthyism. During his lifetime, Griswold had argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other living lawyer. Erwin Griswold was one of the giants of American legal educa- tion and the American legal profession, said Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark. He was a person of tremendous integrity and knowledge and, as such, was a premiere model of what a lawyer should be for genera- tions of law students and lawyers across the country, and around the world. The Harvard Law School Continued on page 17

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