New Judge

Below are just a few of the many resources available to you as a new judge and your family.  There are additional articles, resources and links under the listed topic headings below.  Just click on the heading to access them.

Articles

• A New Judge in the Family: Challenges for the Spouse and Children
• The Changing Role of the Judge and Its Implications: Roger Hanson, Court Review 38, no. 4:10 (Winter 2002). NCSC

Emergency Preparedness

• Are You Ready?
  FEMA
• September 11th: The New York Experience
  Hon. Jonathan Lippman  

Ethics

• The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct was approved February 2007. To learn about state adoption of revised model code link to the Center for Professional Responsibility . (If a state has made its draft or revised Code available on line, clicking on the state will take you to it)
• An Ethics Guide for Judges and Their Families by Cynthia Gray
• For Judges on Facebook, Friendship has Limits

Family and Children

• Parents Consider Children’s Challenges in Public Life
• Raising Children in a Judicial Family: A Challenge for Every Stage

Finances

• Judicial Salaries across the Nation
• When Attorneys Take Pay Cuts to Enter the Judiciary

High Profile Cases

• Judges and Their Families Prepare for High Profile Cases

Media

• Social Media & the Courts Resource Guide - NCSC
• National Center for State Courts (NCSC)

Mentoring

• University Experts Share Mentoring Skills with Partners of Judges
  Mary F. Moyer

Political life

• Judges Need Clear Rules On Family’s Political Activity
• Judicial Campaign Ethics Handbook (2009 Ed.)

Retirement

• Retirement Expectations

Security 

• Judicial Privacy and the Internet
• Protecting the Homefront
  Judge James Brandlin, Los Angeles Superior Court, California

Resources

• Innovations in the California Courts- Ralph N. Kleps Award winner, New Judge Orientation DVD Los Angeles Superior Court

Links

• Justice at Stake
• National Center for State Courts (NCSC)