When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Saturday, December 22, 2007

From another source

Eileen A. Olds (Col ’79) is 46th president of the American Judges Association. The group serves as the "Voice of the Judiciary" and aims to promote and improve the effective administration of justice, maintain the status and independence of the judiciary, provide continuing education for its members and the general public and allow for the exchange of ideas among judges. In 1995, Judge Olds was the first female judge in the First Judicial District of Virginia and one of two African Americans appointed that year. She remains the only female jurist and currently presides as a judge of the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, having served four years as the chief judge.

Participants in the National Problem-Solving Court Summit

I wonder exactly what did she do in this summit. I bet she took some notes and nothing else.

Liberty Aldritch and Greg Berman, Center for Court Innovation
Frank Broccolina, state court administrator, Maryland
Mary McQueen and Dawn Rubio, National Center for State Courts
Judge Karen Freeman-Wilson, National Association of Drug Court Professionals
Judges Stephen Rubin, Dale Koch, and Mary Mentaberry, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Judge William Dressel, National Judicial College
Dean David Link, International Centre for Healing and the Law
Carolyn Cooper and Joe Trotter, American University
Judge Karen Howze, National Association of Women Judges
Steve Katsurinis, Office of National Drug Control Policy
Dr. Redonna Chandler, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Judges Jonathan Lippman and Judy Kluger, administrative judges for the State of New York
Elizabeth Griffith, Office of Justice Programs
Janice Munsterman, State Justice Institute
Susan Salasin, Substance Abuse Services and Mental Health Administration
Judges Mary Terrell, D.C. Superior Court
Judge Eileen Olds, Chesapeake (Virginia) Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
Richelle Uecker, asst. chief executive officer, Orange County (California) Superior Court

Thursday, December 13, 2007