Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge

09/21/2015
 
 

The judge failed to be patient, dignified, and courteous toward litigants and failed to afford these litigants the right to be heard according to law. [Violation of Canons 3B(4) and 3B(8) of the Te...

Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a Judicial District Court Judge 09/10/2015

09/10/2015
 
 

The judge’s email to a colleague presiding over a custody case involving members of the judge’s own family constituted an improper use of the prestige of judicial office to advance the private inte...

Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge 09/01/2015

09/01/2015
 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law by enforcing local rules that unfairly punished defendants for the dilatory conduct of their at...

Private Reprimand of a Judicial District Judge (09/01/2015)

09/01/2015
 
 

The judge inappropriately used public resources, including but not limited to court property, time, and letterhead, to retaliate against a political opponent and to pressure colleagues into interce...

Private Warning of a Municipal Court Judge (08/26/16)

 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law when she participated in proceedings relating to her own recusal by having an attorney attempt to depose the State’s attorneys and actively challenge the Sta...

Private Warning of a Former Municipal Court Judge ( 08/26/16)

 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law when she participated in proceedings relating to her own recusal by having an attorney attempt to depose the State’s attorneys and actively challenge the Sta...

Private Admonition and OAE of District Court Judge (08/05/16)

 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when she summoned two witnesses to court using writs of attachment and punished the witnesses w...

Priv Reprimand and OAE of JP (07/28/16)

 
 

The judge failed to maintain professional competence in the law, allowed the relationship of a family member to influence the judge’s judgment and conduct, acted with bias toward the family member,...