Executive Session for
State Court Leaders
in the 21st Century

Thinking expansively about the role of state judiciaries as instruments of democratic governance, the Executive Session will seek to both develop and answer the questions that U.S. state courts will face in the foreseeable future. Specifically, it will push to clarify what role the leaders of state courts should play in defining and establishing the role of the courts they lead.

Support for the project, which runs from 2008 to 2011, is being provided to Harvard Kennedy School by the National Center for State Courts in part through grants provided by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the State Justice Institute.

Members of the Executive Session for State Court Leaders in the 21st Century:

Jeff Amestoy, Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
David Barron, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Daniel Becker, State Court Administrator, Utah Administrative Office of the Courts
Michael Bridenback, Trial Court Administrator, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Tampa, FL)
Russell Brown, Court Administrator, Cleveland Municipal Court
John Cleland, President Judge, Smethport, PA Court of Common Pleas
Paul DeMuniz, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Oregon
Christine Durham, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Utah
Ted Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Jack Ford, Anchor & Host, Turner Broadcasting Company
Rosalyn Frierson, State Court Administrator, South Carolina Judicial Department
Thomas Gottschalk, Kirkland & Ellis
James Hannah, Chief Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court
Vicki Jackson, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Wallace Jefferson, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Mary McQueen, President, National Center for State Courts
Mee Moua, Senator, Minnesota Senate
Barbara Rodriguez Mundell, Presiding Judge, Superior Court of AZ, Maricopa County
Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Randall Shepard, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana
Christopher Stone, Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice, Harvard Kennedy School
Ron Sullivan, Director, Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School
Michael Trickey, Judge, King County Superior Court
William Vickrey, Administrative Director, California Administrative Office of the Courts
Eric Washington, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Julie Boatright Wilson, Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

This page will be updated with papers produced by members of the Executive Session.

Attendance at the Executive Session is by invitation only.

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