Ohio Supreme Court Justice Thomas Moyer announced yesterday the appointment of a 17-member panel to be headed by retired appellate judge Thomas Bryant of Findlay, Ohio, to review, revise, and recommend changes and a new Code of Judicial Conduct for judges in Ohio.
Ohio’s present Judicial Code went into effective in 1973; its Rules for the Governance of the Judiciary became effective in 1983. The Rules of Governance were amended in February, but the Judicial Code hasn’t been updated since 1997.
The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates revised their Model Code of Judicial Conduct “to provide clear guidance to judges regarding their professional & personal conduct and to assure the public that effective standards exist to regulate the conduct of judges,” back in February. The review being undertaken by the Ohio task force, here, will be one of the first to consider changes in its judicial code based on the ABA model.
The Supreme Court website has a page set aside for task force news, developments & resources, and will be entertaining public comment in the near future, according to its press release.
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