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* AJA Past President Oliver Delery Passes Away

* National Center for State Courts produces latest Judicial Salary Survey

* Nachtigal receives honor

* Photos of 2009 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas

* AJA announces the new American Gavel Awards

U.S. Commission to Assess Mandatory Sentences

* Learn more about Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's initiative www.ourcourts.org that deals with teaching youth civics.

* As summer ends and the flu season begins, the NCSC provides a streaming media version of our new 15 minute DVD: COOP Planning: Maintaining the Rule of Law – Planning within an All-Hazards Context

* AJA Responds to Caperton

* Elders and the Courts: Results from a Needs Assessment

* Judicial Salary Information Center

Presidential Updates

* AJA’s new president, Tam Schumann, featured in Los Angeles Daily Journal

* President Olds and “Tell it to the Judge” featured in University of Virginia article.

What's New

* Judicial Ethics Updates
* Judicial Ethics Updates: Special “Watch What You Say" edition

* AJA Member Elizabeth Pollard Hines recognized by the National Center for State Courts with its 2008 Distinguished Service Award to a current or former state trial judge. Read more.

* The U.S. Postal Service has issued a first-class stamp that calls attention to the importance of jury service. The Jury Duty stamp can be purchased at your post office, or online at www.usps.com/shop.

* Tell It to the Judge

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Judge James McKayAs President of American Judges Association I would like to extend to you a warm welcome, beinvenue, to our website. This past month in Las Vegas, Nevada, at our annual conference, I was installed as President for this coming year. We were truly represented by members from all corners of this North American continent. Our organization was founded in 1959 and now has over twenty-five hundred members throughout the United Stated and Canada. We involve all levels of jurisdiction in all fifty states of the United States and all Provinces of Canada.

We are involved in every aspect of the Judiciary from its current problems to those that are anticipated in the future. Our educational programs throughout the year set the bar for their diversity and timeliness. We are an organization of Judges that attempts to address the problems for Judges. This is why you will hear our association referred to as “The Voice of the Judiciary”. It has been discovered over the years that through networking, we as Judges, discover a commonality of problems ranging from docket management and sentencing guidelines to salary rankings and pension benefits. As an affiliate of the National Center for the State Courts we have the potential to address those problems using their many assets and contacts with other fellow affiliates such as NACM, COSCA and NCRA, just to mention a few.

As we celebrate our Golden Anniversary this year, we are mindful of our task to try and be a friend of the Judiciary, to which they can turn for guidance and answers. The ability to network, not only with Judges, but Court Managers, Court Administrators, Court Reporters etc, is an essential for success.

As it is with all National Organizations, membership is always of the utmost importance. If you are not yet a member I would like you to peruse our website and note our diversity and accessibility. This May, we will conduct our midyear conference in Tucson, Arizona and follow that up in the fall with our annual conference in Denver, Colorado.

We invite you to join us as a member of an organization which considers itself to be the “Voice of the Judiciary”.

James McKay