November 15, 2016

• Meeting Topics: Discussion and Approval of Final Committee Report
• Presenters: John Wester
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes

October 18, 2016

• Meeting Topics: Procedural Justice, Discussion of Next Steps in Shaping the Final Committee Report
• Presenters: Judge Steve Leben
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes
• Procedural Justice in Court

September 28, 2016

• Meeting Topics: Ensuring Public Confidence in Judges, Judicial Qualifications, Judicial Selection, Civics Education, Review of Submitted Public Comments, Discussion of Next Steps in Shaping the Final Committee Report
• Presenters: Judge Wanda Bryant, Carolyn Dubay, Will Robinson, Emily Portner, Justice Sam Ervin IV, Andrew Atkins, Ben Bollinger
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes
• North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission
• Summary of Public Comments on the Public Trust and Confidence Interim Report
• Judicial Qualifications by State
• Judicial Selection – An Analysis of 2008-2014 District Court Elections

May 17, 2016

• Meeting Topic: Discussion of Strategic Goals
• Presenters: None
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes

April 19, 2016

• Meeting Topic: Discussion of Strategic Goals
• Presenters: None
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes

March 15, 2016

• Meeting Topics: Committee Thesis Statement, Identification of Strategic Goals for Top Priority Issues
• Presenters: None
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes

February 16, 2016

• Meeting Topics: Judicial Selection, Judicial Campaign Finance
• Presenters: Dean Martin Brinkley, Professor Charlie Geyh, Kim Strach, Tony Hornthal, Bill Womble, Jr., John Wester, Representative Sarah Stevens
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes
• The History of Judicial Selection in North Carolina
• Judicial Selection in the United States: Reviewing all the Options
• Judicial Campaign Finance in North Carolina

December 15, 2015

• Meeting Topics: Public Confidence in North Carolina State Courts, CourTools: Measuring Court Performance, Strategies to Combat Implicit Bias
• Presenters: Emily Portner, Brad Fowler, Professor Jim Drennan
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes
• Public Trust & Confidence in the North Carolina State Courts
  NCCALJ partnered with Elon’s and High Point University’s Polling Centers to conduct a 10-question survey of North Carolinians’ views of the state’s courts. The two polling centers released their survey results on November 19. Below are links to the data from those two surveys.
  • High Point University Data
  • Elon University Polling Data
• CourTools – Measuring Performance in the North Carolina State Courts
• Potential Solutions to Combat Implicit Bias in the Judicial System
  • Addressing Implicit Bias in the Courts (NCSC)

November 17, 2015

• Meeting Topics: National Perspectives on Public Trust in the Judicial System, Implicit Bias
• Presenters: Laura Klaversma and David Rottman, Judge Louis Trosch, Jr.
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes
• “Understanding Implicit Bias and its Impact on the Criminal Justice System”
  • Presentation – Part 1
  • Presentation – Part 2
  • Presentation – Part 3
• National Perspectives on Public Trust in the Judicial System
• High Performance Court Framework and CourTools
• Committee Members’ Areas of Inquiry Priority Ranking

October 8, 2015

• Meeting Topic: Identification of Areas of Inquiry
• Presenters: None
• Meeting Agenda
• Minutes