Center for Judicial Ethics

Ronald B. Robie became associate justice, Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, Sacramento, Calif., in 2002 and was acting presiding justice, 2022-23.  He is the chair of the California Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions and has served on the NCSC Board of Directors.  He served the Sacramento courts as a judge on the municipal court and the superior court and as associate justice pro tem for the Third Appellate District and the California Supreme Court.  BA (honors), University of California, Berkeley, 1958. JD (highest honors), McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, 1967.

Phyllis A. Dominguez joined the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission in January 2012 and serves as executive director and general counsel. Before joining the Commission, Dominguez served as prosecutor for the Thirteenth and Second Judicial District Attorney's Offices specializing in adult sexual assault and domestic violence cases. She served on the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission and on the Board of Directors for the Albuquerque Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) Collaborative. Dominguez serves as vice-president for the Association of Judicial Disciplinary Council, the national professional association for staff of judicial disciplinary agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Bachelor of Science (education), Juris Doctorate, University of New Mexico.

Jane Duke is vice president, assistant general counsel, and chief compliance officer, Tyson foods, Springdale, Ark.

David Gilbertson was appointed to the Supreme Court of South Dakota in 1995; retained by voters; and elected to multiple terms as chief justice by members of the court starting in 2005. He retired in 2021. He is a past president of the Conference of Chief Justices. Undergraduate degree, South Dakota State University, 1972. Juris Doctor, University of South Dakota School of Law, 1975.

C. Adèle Kent is Chief Judicial Officer Emerita, National Judicial Institute (NJI) of Canada. She is a retired judge, Court of King's Bench of Alberta (1994-2021) and served on several court committees, the Canadian Judicial Council's Public Information Committee, and the National Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, later becoming co-chair.  In 2022 she was elected president of the International Organization for Judicial Training.  She has worked on several NJI courses on judicial ethics, among other topics, and assisted judiciaries in over 20 countries with educational programs.  Law school, University of Alberta (admitted to the Law Society of Alberta, 1978).
 

Margaret H. Marshall is senior counsel at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, Boston.  She was the first woman to serve as chief justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and as vice president and general counsel of Harvard University.  She wrote the opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003), which made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage. Marshall was born and raised in South Africa during apartheid. Baccalaureate, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (president, National Union of South African Students, a leading anti-apartheid organization).  Master's degree, Harvard University, 1968. J.D., Yale Law School, 1976.

James E. Moliterno is the Vincent Bradford Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Washington & Lee University School of Law. His teaching and scholarship focus on lawyer and judicial ethics and conduct. He is author or co-author of ten books and numerous articles on legal ethics. His books have been translated into Chinese, Georgian, Czech, and Slovak languages. He has engaged in substantial international legal ethics and legal education teaching and reform work in Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Slovakia, Ukraine, North Macedonia, China, Indonesia, and Thailand.

David Peeples served as judge, Bexar County's 285th District Court (1981-88); justice, Fourth Court of Appeals (1988-94); and judge, 224th District Court (1995-2004). He retired from the active trial bench in 2004. In October 2017, he became of counsel to Prichard Young LLP, San Antonio. He was presiding judge, Fourth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas, and chair, Texas Multi-District Litigation Panel. He has served on the Texas Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Rules since 1993. Texas Bar Foundation's Outstanding Jurist Award, 2007; State Bar Judicial Section's Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016. B.A., Austin College. M.A. (government) and J.D. (law review), University of Texas.

Martha L. Walters was elected by her colleagues as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon in 2018 and served until 2022. She was first appointed to the court by Gov. Ted Kulongoski in 2006, elected in 2008, and reelected in 2014. B.A. (with distinction), University of Michigan, 1972. J.D. (Order of the Coif), University of Oregon School of Law, 1977.

Eric T. Washington was appointed chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 2005 and served three consecutive four-year terms as chief judge and chair of the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration for the District of Columbia before retiring in 2017 and taking senior judge status.  He is past president of the Conference of Chief Justices, is a nationally recognized leader on access-to-justice issues, and works to raise awareness of the importance of the rule of law in our democracy.  Washington has received many honors and was inducted into the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame in 2014.

Seana Willing is chief disciplinary counsel, State Bar of Texas. She was executive director (2017-19) of the Texas Ethics Commission and executive director (2003-17) and general counsel (2001-03) of the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct. She has been a guest speaker on the topic of ethics, professional conduct, and the Texas attorney and judicial disciplinary systems before a variety of audiences. B.A. (economics), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. J.D., St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio.

Andrea G. Woods serves as Senior Legal Counsel for Gilbane Building Company. She previously served as executive vice president and corporate counsel for Nabholz and on the board of directors for The Nabholz Group, Inc. Woods was an alternate member of the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission until 2021. She serves on the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association, Forum on Construction Law; regularly speaks on legal ethics, the role of in-house counsel, and construction law; and volunteers with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project. J.D. (cum laude), Capital University Law School, 1996. LL.M. (distinction), Georgetown University Law Center, 2022.