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Upcoming Events Calendar
If you would like to post events on the NAWJ calendar, please send an e-mail
with “NAWJ Calendar Submission” in the subject line to
nawj@nawj.org and include the following information event date, time,
title (e.g., “District 4 Meeting”), brief description, contact
information (name, telephone and/or e-mail), location (place,
address, city, state).
Archived Events
2012
JANUARY 2012
January 26, 2012 • 5:30PM to 6:30PM| | Training Women Lawyers About the Judicial Selection Process
Learn more about the judicial selection process in the local and federal courts and government, including administrative law and/or board of contract appeal tribunals. A distinguished panel of jurists and judicial selection commission members will be present to answer your questions. REGISTRATION FEE: Free for NAWJ members and Semmes law firm members (limited seating), $20 in advance for non-members. Please see the flyer for more information.
Contact Information: For more information, please contact District 4 NAWJ Director Claudia Barber via email at claudiaabarber@aol.com and/or phone at (202) 724-5475.
Location:
Semmes, Bowen and Semmes
25 South Charles Street, Suite 1400
Baltimore, Maryland
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FEBRUARY 2012
February 25, 2012 • 12:00PM| | NAWJ District Three Member Meeting
During the annual Pennsylvania State Trial Judges Conference, NAWJ members will meet on Saturday to discuss NAWJ District affairs. To register for the District Three Luncheon Meeting, please download the attached registration form.
Contact Information: For more information, please contact Judge Sandra Ann Robinson at kwas@yahoo.com.
Location:
Four Seasons Hotel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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February 28, 2012 • 6:00PM| | 18th Annual Judge Irma S. Raker NAWJ Maryland Chapter & Women Legislators of Maryland Dinner
We are planning our annual dinner with the Maryland Women Legislators and again the First Lady of Maryland has graciously invited us to the Governor's house for our joint dinner. Please note that the deadline for RSVP is Wednesday, February 8, 2012. As with past years, the cost of the dinner per person will be determined based on the numbers, and you will be sent a bill for it after the dinner. N.B. if you RSVP ‘YES’ you will be expected to pay even if you don't attend.
Contact Information: Direct all RSVP's to Irma Raker's Executive Administrtaive Aide, Donna Russ at Donna.Russ@mdcourts.gov or Donna.Russ@courts.state.md.us.
Location:
Government House
Annapolis, Maryland
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MARCH 2012
March 9 - 11, 2012 | | NAWJ Midyear Meeting and Leadership Conference
The host hotel is The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Additional event and program venues include Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum at Columbia Point in Boston. Meeting planners NAWJ President Judge Amy Nechtem, Massachusetts Juvenile Court; Justice Fernande Duffly, Supreme Judicial Court; Justice Ariane Vuono, Massachusetts Appeals Court; and friends Committee Chair Karen Green, Esq, WilmerHale will present a weekend of legal insights, social exploration and relaxing bonhomie at various panels, meetings and receptions. Click here for the current agenda. Register online here. Make hotel reservations here.
Contact Information: For more information, please contact Jeffrey Groton at (202) 393-0222.
Location:
The Charles Hotel
One Bennett Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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March 17, 2012 • 1:00PM| | Pathways to the Bench
Sponsored by NAWJ and the D.C. Women’s Law Initiative, law students will gather with local jurist to discuss the paths and processes in becoming a judge. Guest panelists: Judge Claudia Crichlow, D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings; Judge Krystal Alves, Prince George's County Circuit Court; and Judge Judith Macaluso, D.C. Superior Court.
Contact Information: For more information, please contact District Director Judge Claudia Barber at claudia.barber@dc.gov.
Location:
Catholic University Columbus School of Law
Washington, District of Columbia
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APRIL 2012
April 26, 2012 • 5:30PM| | Training Women Lawyers on the Judicial Selection Process
Guest panelists: US District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan, D.C. Judicial Nominating Commission; D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Anna Blackburne Rigsby; Chief Judge Emily Hewitt, Federal Claims Court; Judge Jeri Somers, U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals; Judge Denise Vowell (military courts); Judge Jennifer Long, former Rental Housing Commissioner and current Administrative Law Judge; Judge Mary Schoelen, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Contact Information: For more information, please contact District Director Judge Claudia Barber at claudia.barber@dc.gov.
Location:
Offices of Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Washington, District of Columbia
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MAY 2012
May 2 - 5, 2012 | | "Keeping Safe, Keeping Well", The International Association of Women Judges 11th Biennial International Conference
Topics will include among others: judicial leadership; judicial health and safety; trafficking and forced marriage; sextortion; women, work and health. There will be opportunities for regional meetings as well as opportunities to visit UK courts. For those of you who hope to receive some sponsorship through your judiciary or other donors, be encouraged to still register as soon as possible and to work out the further details later so that you do not wait until it is too late. Should you need other documentation for your courts, please let the IAWJ office know so that the office might provide you with the necessary materials. For this purpose, please write to the IAWJ office at this email address: conference@iawj.org.A reminder, only current IAWJ members may register for the conference. If you or your association has not yet paid your 2011 dues, please make sure that you do it now so that you will be able to register at the time. You may do this by going to the IAWJ website’s membership section (http://www.iawj.org/member/main.asp).
Contact Information: Information about the conference will be found on both the IAWJ website (www.iawj.org) and the UKAWJ special conference site at www.iawj2012london.com. Each of these will be updated prior to registration beginning.
Location:
The Church House Conference Centre near Parliament Square in London. The closing night Gala Dinner will be held at the City of London Guildhall.
England
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JUNE 2012
JULY 2012
AUGUST 2012
SEPTEMBER 2012
OCTOBER 2012
NOVEMBER 2012
November 7 - 11, 2012 | | "Meet Me In Miami”, the NAWJ 34th Annual Conference
Join conference chairs and planners Judge Lisa S. Walsh, Eleventh Circuit Court; Judge Myriam Lehr, Miami-Dade County Court; Judge Cindy S. Lederman, Eleventh Circuit Court; Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida; Judge Gladys Perez, Miami-Dade County Court; Mikki Canton, Esq., AsiaAmericana International LLC; and Elizabeth Hernandez, Esq., Akerman Senterfitt in a near week filled of cutting edge education programming, original perspectives on the court and connecting with old and new friends.
The host hotel is the Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach. Make hotel reservations here. Download the registration form here.
Contact Information: For more information, please contact Jeffrey Groton at (202) 393-0222.
Location:
Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach
4525 Collins Avenue
Miami, Florida
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DECEMBER 2012
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