Charge and Designation

To improve the availability and quality of judicial education, the Advisory Committee on Judicial Education is established. The committee is charged with general oversight over the judicial education program, reviewing current policies and practices, exploring alternative practices, evaluating the effectiveness of the program, and recommending needed policy changes to the Supreme Court.

The Committee should expect to meet no more than quarterly to fulfill its obligations.

The Committee shall assume responsibility for curriculum development for a comprehensive in-state education program in judicial skills in the areas of criminal, family and civil law. To fulfill its responsibility of improving judicial education programs of all kinds, the committee is authorized to create ad hoc subcommittees to develop the actual programs. Initially, the Supreme Court determines at least the following subcommittees should be established:

• Criminal

•  Family

•  Civil

The Committee is authorized to eliminate any subcommittee, including those listed above, when there is no longer a need for it.

The Committee shall report to the Supreme Court by September 1, 1995, on the advisability of creating a Standing Advisory Committee on Education under Vermont Constitution Chapter II {{ 30, 37 and other proposals to meet the needs of judicial education in Vermont.

The Supreme Court hereby appoints to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Education the following persons:

• James L. Morse, Associate Justice, Chair

• Stephen B. Martin, Administrative Judge for the Trial Courts

• Lee Suskin, Director, Trial Court Administration

• Marna Murray, Staff Attorney/Judicial Educator

• Michael Kupersmith, District Court Judge

• Mary Miles Teachout, Superior Court Judge

• Alan Cheever, Superior Court Judge

• Kathleen Manley, Family Court Magistrate

• George Belcher, Probate Court Judge

• Sharon Anderson, Clerk, Lamoille District & Family Courts

• Jill Mattuck Tarule, Dean, Department of Education and Social Sciences, University of Vermont

• Dean, Vermont Law School or a designee

• Chair, Judicial Nominating Board or a designee

• Chair, Judicial Retention Committee or a designee

• Chair, Judicial Conduct Board or a designee

• President, Assistant Judges' Association or a designee

• President, Vermont Bar Association or a designee

In the performance of their duties, the non-Judicial Branch members of the Committee shall be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses and shall receive per diem compensation of fifty dollars. The Judicial Branch members shall be reimbursed the normal state employees' expenses. The Commissioner of Finance and Management shall pay from the judicial appropriation all expenses of the Committee when claims are submitted on proper vouchers approved by the Court Administrator or his designee.

Done in Chambers at Montpelier, Vermont this of July, 1993.

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Frederic W. Allen, Chief Justice

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Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice

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John A. Dooley, Associate Justice

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James L. Morse, Associate Justice

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Denise R. Johnson, Associate Justice

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