On the occasion of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Judicial Council Division (JCD) of the Washington Bar Association my reflections are as follows:
After long being active and a Life Member of the National Bar Association (since 1974) and serving as its General Counsel and on the NBA board for years, I had experienced the positive impact that an NBA Judicial Council Division brought to its members and the organization as a whole. I saw as increasingly critical the need for an organization of local judicial officers under the rubric of my own Washington Bar Association that functioned, in the main, like the Judicial Division of the National Bar Association. -- Cont’d on page 2.
WBA Judicial Council Update
By Judge Anita Josey-Herring
The 10th annual symposium and the celebration of the founding of the Judicial Council is set for March 16, 2010 at the new District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The title of the symposium is African-American Judges: Then and Now. William “Billy” Martin will moderate a panel of distinguished jurists including former Chief Judge Eugene Hamilton; U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton; D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Inez Smith Reid; former Chief Judge William Pryor; and Retired Administrative Law Judge Constance O’Bryant, of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The program, which is open to the public and does not require advance registration, begins at 6 p.m. A reception to celebrate the 10th anniversary follows immediately after the program.
Students learn lessons of African-American legal leaders
Over 250 children in 10 classes of kindergarten through fifth graders at Thompson Elementary School participated in the Black History program organized by the Judicial Council’s School Outreach Committee on February 24, 2010. -- Cont’d on page 3
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