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A Message from NAWJ’s President

Hon. Fernande (Nan) R.V. Duffly

Dear NAWJ Members,

Greetings, I have just returned from the mid-year meeting in Williamsburg of the Conference of Chief Justices.  Many of the members of this organization of the chiefs of our highest state (and territorial) courts are members of NAWJ and it was an invaluable opportunity to meet the new chiefs and tell them about NAWJ.  While there, in addition to attending several meetings and seminars, many of which focused on issues of mutual interest to our members, I met with supportive NAWJ members and obtained their commitments to attend the Third Annual luncheon with the Federal Caucus of Women Legislators, now scheduled for June 25, 2008 in Washington DC.  With their help, I was able form an impressive committee of chiefs who will join me in a letter encouraging judicial leaders to attend this historic event.  I also met with Colleen K. Killilea and Eileen Olds, from the Virginia chapter, and discussed areas of our mutual concern (Elaine Olds is this year's President of the American Judges Association -- congratulations Eileen!). 

 

At a banquet in Boston this Tuesday, I will accept the Diversity Hero award, presented by the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.  The recent article about that award quoted me as saying that NAWJ "is one of the most racially diverse organizations I belong to."  I leave the next day for the ABA mid-year meeting in Los Angeles, where I plan, among other things, to make brief presentations about NAWJ at the meetings of the Commission on Women, Minorities Commission and the National Conference of Bar Presidents; attend the Spirit of Excellence lunch; and participate on the NAWJ co-sponsored panel: "From Diversity to Advancement: Overcoming Challenges to Achieve Success in the Legal Profession."   On February 19, I will join Dru in Chicago to attend meetings of the Friends Committee,  the Judges Committee (co-chaired by Cheryl Cesario, Sophia Hall and Jane Craney), and to meet with our event speaker Scott Turow, to plan NAWJ's Midwest Regional conference taking place in Chicago August 28-30, 2008.   

Nan Duffly

NAWJ Members News

Judge Tam Nomoto, Superior Court of California, County of Orange, to be sworn in as President of AJA in Maui in September!

Mother-Daughter Jurists: They're Part of a Nationwide Trend

Alice Beck Dubow is sworn in as a judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas with her mother, Judge Phyllis Beck, right beside her.

L.A. Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs to Retire

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John A. Kronstadt said, “There is no finer jurist; there is no better person.  Dzintra Janavs embodies the title, ‘Honorable.’”

The Legal Intelligencer in partnership with The National Association of Women Judges

present the

2008 Women in the Profession Honorary Luncheon

Thursday, June 5th, 2008, 12 pm 1:30 pm

Marriott Center City Philadelphia

For more information please e-mail jpalmer@

National Association of Women Judges

Midyear and Northeastern Leadership Conference

Boston, MA

April 11-13, 2008

Host Hotel: Jurys Boston Hotel

350 Stuart Street, Back Bay, Boston

Group Name: NAWJ

Group Rate: $235.00

Tel: (617) 266-7200

Highlights:

Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Toobin - CNN commentator and Author, The Nine

Panel: The First Amendment and the High Profile Case

Speakers: U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner

Joan Lukey, Esq. WilmerHale

Attorney General Martha Coakley

Joan Kenney, Public Information Officer, MA Court System, Pres., Conference of Court Public Information Officers

Media representative(s) TBA

Gala Reception at the Adams Courthouse

Presentation of Justice Ruth Abrams Scholarship by NAWJ President, Hon. Fernande R.V. Duffly

NAWJ Board Meeting

Joint Luncheon Meeting of the NAWJ Board/NAWJ Resource Board

Chief Justices Continental Breakfast - Honoring Hon. Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, President-Elect, Conference of Chief Justices

Keep an eye out for Conference Registration Materials in the mail.

A Big Thanks to NAWJ 2007 Annual Conference and 2008 Conference Sponsors to Date:

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