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The Court Administrator OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION for COURT ADMINISTRATION The Court Administrator OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COURT ADMINISTRATION VOLUME 9; WINTER 2021 SPECIAL RALPH DeLOACH TRIBUTE EDITION The Court Administrator TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COURT ADMINISTRATION LEADERSHIP The Court Administrator OFFICERS ADVISORY COUNCIL President’s Message ..........................3 Sheryl L. Loesch Hon. Vladimir Freitas Editor’s Message ...............................4 President Advisory Council Chair Luis Maria Palma EXECUTIVE BOARD Ralph DeLoach Tribute ...................5 President-Elect Madiyar Balken VIQ Solutions ...................................9 Hon. Vladimir Freitas Vice President-Central Asia/India Immediate Past President Louise Anderson Moving On The Road To Improve Pamela Harris The Attention Of Justice And Its Vice President-South Asia and Australia Modernization In The City Of Chief Executive Officer HE Justice Ali Al Madhani, Chair Buenos Aires ...................................10 Catherine Hiuser Vice President-Middle East Chief Administrative Officer Dubai The Judicial Administration in Linda Wade-Bahr Pim Albers Iceland ...............................................12 Chief IT Officer Vice President-Europe/The Hague Our System Of Law Must Adam Watson Jeff Newman Remain Steadfast, Even In Vice President-Membership Vice President-North America Troubled Times ..............................15 Dr. Tim Bunjavec Rolanda Van Wyk Co-Managing Journal Editor Vice President-Africa Federal Jury Plan revisions in the Kim Osment Flavia Podestá Northern District of Illinois and the Impact in Increasing Diversity in the Secretary/Communications Officer Vice President-South & Latin America Jury Pool ...........................................19 Joseph Bobek Tom Bruton Chief Financial Officer Vice President-International Associations How has the Qatar International Jeffrey A. Apperson Michele Oken Stuart Court responded to the challenges Ex Officio Vendor/Sponsorship Chair presented by the coronavirus Lifetime Member pandemic? .......................................21 Regional Boards are made up of a vice Markus Zimmer president and seven board members. Vice Infotech Towards Judi-Tech: Ex Offico Lifetime Member President and/or Board Member positions Dream of Normalcy to The Tool are available in Africa, Central Asia/India, Europe/Slovenia, Middle East, Central & of Urgency .......................................24 South America, Southeast Asia & Australia, and International Associations. COVID and the Courts – The Role of Leadership Resilience .................27 Part III of Special Series: Rich Indian Judicial System-from Vedas to Present Day .....................................33 United States Federal Courts SHERYL L. LOESCH Participate in Audio Livestream Pilot President • [email protected] Program ..........................................37 EILEEN LEVINE Executive Editor • [email protected] DR. SUSAN MOXLEY Associate Editor • [email protected] KERSTI FJØRSTAD Associate Editor • [email protected] 2 • www.iaca.ws.. The Court Administrator “THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR” I am pleased to If you haven’t already watched IACA’s inaugural podcast, be present to you the next sure to take a look! You will see some familiar faces from our edition of The Court IACA community. It’s definitely one not to be missed. Here’s Administrator. While the link if you’d like to take a look: https://www.iaca.ws/iaca- this is yet another podcasts IACA plans to produce more podcasts in the future information packed on topics of interest in the field of court administration. We edition, it is also certainly welcome any ideas on topics you would like to see bittersweet. As many of addressed so please email me your ideas at [email protected]. you already know, Ralph I also want to take this opportunity to welcome back Joe DeLoach served as the Bobek as IACA’s Chief Financial Officer. Joe served as CFO Editor of The Court for a number of years and then took some time off, but he is Administrator for the Sheryl Loesch, IACA President back now, and we are thrilled to have him. I know you join last four years. Ralph me in welcoming Joe back to IACA. was also one of the original members of IACA when IACA was first organized With the COVID vaccines now being distributed, we hope in Ljubljana, Slovenia back in September 2004. He attended to be able to start planning our next conference once people nearly every one of IACA’s conferences and was very engaged feel safe to travel. It will be extra special seeing everyone in in international Rule of Law projects. He traveled as a subject person again. matter expert to many countries. I know you will enjoy this edition of The Court Administrator. Aside from Ralph’s involvement with IACA, he was a legend I want to give special thanks to the new Editor, Eileen Levine, in the United States Judiciary. He was known as a great court and the rest of the editorial board, Dr. Susan Moxley and administrator in his career with the U.S. District Court for the Kersti Fjorstad, for their exemplary work on this edition. I District of Kansas and I had the distinct honor and pleasure also wish to thank all the authors of the articles. Well done! to have Ralph as my mentor as a young court administrator. I owe him more than words can say. Sheryl So, with all that said, this edition of The Court Administrator is dedicated to our colleague and friend, Ralph DeLoach. Winter 2021 • 3 The Court Administrator EDITOR’S MESSAGE It is my privilege to court administrators. I would like to thank IACA welcome the IACA President, Sheryl Loesch, for appointing me to carry on in membership and the role of Executive Editor. I sincerely thank Dr. Susan illustrious readers Moxley and Mrs. Kersti Fjorstadt for their friendship, their from all around the enthusiasm and of course, their awesome editing skills. I world to the 9th am excited and honored to work on this distinguished Edition of The Court publication and with your help and guidance, I know we Administrator. can achieve continued success in sharing best practice This edition is ideas, educating one another, and bringing international dedicated to the court systems closer together. Please continue to help us memory of our dear to accomplish our goals. If we learned anything from this past year’s experiences, is that it is a small world indeed and Eileen Levine friend and mentor, Court Administrator Ralph DeLoach. No that sharing important information helps everyone perform Eastern and Southern one can fill the shoes their jobs within their respective courts. Districts of New York of Ralph, founding On behalf of the editorial staff, I want to express our Executive Editor of The Court Administrator. His experiences: gratitude to all of the authors who submitted articles for this his career as Clerk of Court in the United States Federal Court edition for their time, energy, expertise and for taking us on for the District of Kansas, his educational and professional a (virtual) journey into their individual courts. background, and his international accomplishments, stand My background as a career court administrator is in the second to none. It is with bittersweet emotions that we U.S. federal court system, working for United States District continue the work Ralph started. Let us all pay homage to and Circuit Judges for over thirty-six years. I am humbled Ralph in our own special ways. to follow in Ralph’s huge footsteps and in the strides that I have been working as an editor on The Court Administrator he has made in growing The Court Administrator into the since the inaugural edition in 2017. The Court Administrator publication that it is today. is a platform for court executives, administrators, and judicial Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time with your officers around the world to share experiences, best practices suggestions and your articles at [email protected]. and, yes, even themselves. We come from different cultures Additional information about The Court Administrator can and speak different languages; however, we all have the same be located on the IACA website at https://www.iaca.ws/the- goals in mind; fair and impartial court administration, respect court-administrator. Stay Safe! for each other and equal access to justice. Thank you. For the past 4 years, we have been in constant contact with over 65 contributing authors, judges, and international Eileen 4 • www.iaca.ws.. The Court Administrator Ralph DeLoach April 28, 1946 - November 5, 2020 It is with tremendous sadness that strong belief that the federal judiciary the International Association for must stand firm as defender of the Court Administration pays tribute to Constitution, and that we, in Clerk’s Ralph DeLoach, our esteemed former offices, should humbly and diligently colleague. For more than twenty-two support this important mission. years, Ralph served as Clerk of Court Ralph was born in Coco Solo, for the District of Kansas. Ralph Panama, where his father was passed away on November 5, 2020, stationed. He grew up in Jacksonville, in Overland Park, Kansas. Florida, with his seven siblings. Ralph had been involved in IACA He spent his childhood catching since the early beginnings of the alligators, shrimping, and searching Association. He was instrumental for conch shells. After completing in helping IACA founders grow graduate school, Ralph pursued his this Association during the past 18 juris doctorate degree while working years. Most recently, Ralph served as as a probation officer. He eventually Editor of The Court Administrator. was appointed by the court in Kansas Ralph also served as President of the Federal Court Clerks to the Clerk position, where he served with distinction. Association (FCCA). In his FCCA President’s Message in Ralph was not content to limit his influence and expertise the winter 1991 edition of the FCCA Journal, Ralph wrote: to the borders of Kansas. He shared his knowledge nationally The service we provide and how we provide it is a and was an early implementor of many important initiatives, significant factor in the way the judiciary is perceived by the like the judiciary’s modernized accounting system.
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