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JUDICIAL BRANCH" SERVICE AGENCIES


                                  Judicial Conference
Statutory Reference: Section 758.17; Supreme Court Rule 70.15.
  The Judicial Conference is made up of the justices of the Supreme Court,
the judges of the
Court of Appeals, judges of the circuit courts, reserve judges and 3 municipal
judges representing
the municipal courts. It meets at least once a Near at a place and time designated
by a joint
meeting of its Executive Committee and the Judicial Education Committee.
  The functions of the conference are to consider the business of the administration
of justice
and problems pertaining thereto and to make recommendations for its improvement,
to conduct
educational programs at its annual meeting to assist its members in performing
their judicial
duties, to provide for committees to study particular subjects relating to
the administration of
justice, and to adopt forms necessary for the administration of certain proceedings.
  Sections, established by the conference at its organizational meeting in
September 1979, are:
Family and Children's Law, Probate and Mental Health, Appellate Practice
and Procedures,
Civil Law, and Criminal Law and Traffic. The Judicial Conference also maintains
a Standing
Committee on Legislation.

                              Judicial Education Committee
 Members: CHIEF JUSTICE NATHAN S. HEFFERNAN, chairperson; R. THOMAS CANE,
PATRICIA S.
   CURLEY, JAMES EATON, FREDERIC FLEISHAUER, THOMAS J. GALLAGHER, MARVIN
C. HOLZ,
   MORIA G. KREUGER, LEAH M. LAMPONE, J. RICHARD LONG, PATRICK L. SNYDER;
J. DENIS
   MORAN (director of state courts), FRANK C. DEGUIRE (dean, Marquette University
Law
   School), CLIFF F. THOMPSON (dean, University of Wisconsin Law School),
V. KNOPPKE-WET-
   ZEL (director of judicial education).
 Director of Judicial Education: V. KNOPPKE-WETZEL.
 Mailing Address: Room 420, 110 East Main Street, Madison 53703.
 Telephone: (608) 266-7807.
 Reference: Supreme Court Rule 32.01.
   The Supreme Court Judicial Education Committee approves educational programs
conducted
 or recommended by the director of judicial education for all court personnel.
   In 1976 the Wisconsin Supreme Court, after holding a public hearing, issued
an order estab-
 lishing a mandatory program of continuing education for the Wisconsin judiciary,
SCR Chapter
 32. This rule, effective January 1, 1977, and as amended November 25, 1980,
applies to all
 Supreme Court justices and commissioners, Court of Appeals judges and staff
attorneys, circuit
 court judges, and reserve judges. To comply with SCR Chapter 32, each person
subject to the
 rule must obtain a designated number of hours of continuing education within
a period of 6
 years. The Judicial Education Committee also sponsors educational programs,
conducted by
 the director of judicial education, for clerks of circuit court and municipal
judges.






                            JUDICIAL COMMISSION

 Members: WILLIAM EICH (appeals court judge), MARK J. FARNUM (circuit court
judge), RICHARD
   C. NINNEMAN, ADRIAN P. SCHOONE (attorneys); JOEL B. GROSSMAN, ELIZABETH
G. KING,
   BERNETTA KILPATRICK, JUDITH S. MCCASLIN, BEATRICE A. PTACEK (public members
ap-
   pointed by Governor).
 Executive Director: ELENA A. CAPPELLA.
 Administrative Assistant: EDITH P. WILIMOVSKY.
 Mailing Address: Suite 606, Tenney Building, 110 East Main Street, Madison
53703.
 Telephone: (608) 266-7637.