NCJ Number
82756
Date Published
1981
Length
582 pages
Annotation
Testimony examines the extent of employment discrimination against minorities and women in the Federal judiciary, suggests appropriate corrective action, and identifies an effective enforcement and monitoring mechanism.
Abstract
Steve Suitts, director of the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council (SRC), an advocate of equal employment opportunity, presented findings of the SRC report on the underrepresentation and underuse of minorities and women as judges and support personnel in the southern Federal courts. He suggested that these findings are probably representative of the entire Federal judiciary. A representative of the Judicial Conference testified on the Conference's receipt of a petition signed by 12 legal organizations which called for the establishment of an affirmative action plan for the Federal courts. It was further indicated that the Conference, at its September 1979 meeting, unanimously endorsed the concept of equal employment opportunity in the Federal courts and directed that a model plan be developed with the assistance of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Other testimony considers the adequacy of the model plan developed and how it might be most effectively implemented, monitored, and enforced. Included in the appendixes are supplementary statements and data on the personnel of Federal district courts.