Promoting Racial Diversity & Better Fact-Finding
On May 27, 2021, the National Association for Presiding Judges and Court Executive Officers presented a webinar about promoting racial diversity and better fact-finding in jury trials.
MODERATOR
- Hon. Gregory Mize (ret.), Judicial Fellow, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Courts
PRESENTERS
- Hon. Pamela Gates, Civil Presiding Judge, Superior Court, Maricopa County (Arizona)
- Hon. Veronica Galván, Chief Judge, MRJC, Superior Court, Kent County (Washington)
- Paula Hannaford-Agor, Director, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Courts
MATERIALS
- Video not available
- Slide Deck (PDF)
- Presenter Bios (PDF)
- Resources
- REPORT: Racial and Ethnic Representation through the Jury Selection Process: An Analysis of 2019 Jury Data from the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County (PDF)
- ARTICLE: A Legal Discrimination (PDF)
- ARTICLE: Politics and Judicial Appointments: Why Juries Matter (PDF)
- ARTICLE: Why Judges Should Not Mistake the Norm for the Neutral (PDF)