WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK 1985-1986


                                    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 year 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 proceedings
under Chapters 48,
 851 to 882 of the statutes.
   The 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 Proce-
 dures, Civil Law, and Criminal Law and Traffic. The Judicial Conference
also maintains a Stand-
 ing Committee on Legislation.

                               Judicial Education Committee
 Members: CHIEF JUSTICE NATHAN S. HEFFERNAN, chairperson; THOMAS H. BARLAND,
MICHAEL
   W. BRENNAN, R. THOMAS CANE, PATRICIA S. CURLEY, KENT C. HOUCK, P. CHARLES
JONES,
   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).
 Director of Judicial Education: V. KNOPPKE-WETZEL.
 Mailing Address: Room 510, 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 R. MOSER (Appeals Court judge), MARK J. FARNUM (circuit
court judge),
  RICHARD C. NINNEMAN, GORDON SINYKIN (attorneys); JOEL B. GROSSMAN, ELIZABETH
G.
  KING, BERNETTA KILPATRICK LINGREN, JUDITH S. MCCASLIN, BEATRICE PTACEK
(public
  members).
Executive Director: ELENA A. CAPPELLA.
Administrative Assistant: EDITH P. WILIMOVSKY.
Mailing Address: Room 203 Tenney Building, 110 East Main Street, Madison
53703.
Telephone: (608) 266-7637.


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