Greetings,
 This issue of Court Excellence highlights several events
related to CCE's 25th anniversary. These include
3 public forums and a special retrospective
covering CCE's first twenty-five years that
will be published shortly. We also went
back in time to see what CCE was up to a
quarter of a century ago! The rest of the
issue focuses on 2008 program priorities,
two of which are highlighted in detail,
our juvenile justice project and journalist's
handbook, and a preview of two more public
forums to be convened in 2008, one on issues
related to child custody, the other on offender
reentry. Look for announcements in the early
spring with further details, and enjoy the
holidays. June Kress Executive
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Graham, Novak, King Take Part in
CCE Panel Celebrating Jury Duty
 WASHINGTON -- To celebrate its 25th anniversary,
the Council for Court Excellence held a public forum,
In Your Hands: Perspectives on Jury Duty, on
October 18th at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
CCE President Rodney Page welcomed the attendees and
introduced the program that... More.
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CCE Celebrates the First
Twenty-Five Years 
WASHINGTON -- By year-end, CCE will have
completed its first twenty-five years of justice system
reform in the District of Columbia. A flurry of activity
has occurred and many CCE Board members and stakeholder
friends are responsible for the numerous achievements that mark the organization's quarter
century anniversary... More. |
It Was Twenty-Five Years Ago
Today...
On January 8, 1982, the Council for Court
Excellence (CCE) was incorporated. Charles A. Horsky,
Senior Partner at Covington & Burling, was elected
President of the Board of Directors. This new
nonpartisan action group was launched on the heels of a
major DC Bar Board of Governors Blue Ribbon evaluation
of the DC Courts... More.
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CCE Establishes 2008 Program
Priorities 
WASHINGTON -- CCE's program planning process has
resulted in a diverse and challenging 2008 programmatic
agenda, ranging from educational guides about the DC
juvenile justice system and for journalists to the DC
local and federal courts, to projects that examine how
chronic offenders with mental health and substance abuse
issues are handled by the DC criminal justice system and
expediting appeals in child neglect-related cases
involving custody. More... |
Shining a Light on Juvenile
Justice
 WASHINGTON -- The Council for Court Excellence
Board selected juvenile justice as one priority in CCE's
2007-2011 long-range plan. The Council will begin its
work in that focus area by preparing and publishing a
Community Guide to the DC Juvenile Justice
System in both English and Spanish by fall 2008. More...
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Journalist's Handbook Project
Commences
 WASHINGTON -- CCE has begun a project to produce
a Journalist's Handbook to the District of Columbia
Courts, which will be published and widely
disseminated in September 2008.
The
Handbook will describe the processes and policies of the
local and federal courts in the District of Columbia, as
well as legal terminology and general... More.
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CCE's Planned Giving
Initiative
WASHINGTON -- With 2008 CCE will commence a broad
range of exciting new projects. These projects, as with
those undertaken in the last 25 years, reflect much
about CCE as an organization - which is to say, about
its supporters. The projects are at once practical
approaches to improving the District's courts and
justice system agencies and an affirmation of the
justice system and its capacity to encompass the fullest
expression of law's underlying principles. This takes
commitment and vision. Planned giving to CCE is another
way supporters express that commitment and vision. More... | | |
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