This letter provides an opportunity
to salute the 43 judges who completed their basic science and technology
training and were elected as ASTAR Fellows late 2006.
Everyone interested in the
courts will want to know their names. They include trial and appellate
jurists. I am proud to salute their accomplishments and to present them
in this column.
Maryland
Hon. Kaye Allison
Circuit Court for Baltimore City
Hon. Stuart R. Berger
Circuit Court for Baltimore City
Hon. Evelyn Omega Cannon
Circuit Court for Baltimore City
Hon. Philip T. Caroom
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
Hon. John W. Debelius III
Circuit Court for Montgomery County
Hon. Michael M. Galloway
Circuit Court for Carroll County
Hon. Paul A. Hackner
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
Hon. Glenn T. Harrell, Jr.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Hon. Ellen L. Hollander
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Hon. Michele D. Hotten
Circuit Court for Prince George's County
Hon. W. Newton Jackson III
Circuit Court for Wicomico County
Hon. Ruth Ann Jakubowski
Circuit Court for Baltimore County
Hon. Diane O. Leasure
Circuit Court for Howard County
Hon. Michael D. Mason
Circuit Court for Montgomery County
Hon. John H. McDowell
Circuit Court for Washington County
Hon. Emory A. Plitt, Jr.
Circuit Court for Harford County
Hon. Thomas G. Ross
Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County
Hon. Cathy Hollenberg Serrette Circuit Court
for Prince George's County
Hon. James L. Sherbin
Circuit Court for Garrett County
Hon. Ronald A. Silkwortth
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
Hon. Julie Stevenson Solt
Circuit Court for Frederick County
Hon. Sean D. Wallace
Circuit Court of Prince George's County
Hon. Brett W. Wilson
Circuit Court for Dorchester County
Ohio
Hon. Randall L. Basinger
Putnam County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Charles E. Brown
Stark County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Janet R. Burnside
Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Joseph T. Clark
Ohio Court of Claims, ASTAR Coordinator 2007
Hon. Dan W. Favreau
Morgan County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. William R. Finnegan
Marion County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. H. F. Inderlied, Jr.
ASTAR Coordinator, Ohio Judicial College 2006
Hon. Jan Michael Long
Pickaway Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Eugene A. Lucci
Lake County Court of Common Pleas
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Ohio (cont.)
Hon. Thomas M. Marcelain
Licking County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Melba D. Marsh
Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. David T. Matia
Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Elizabeth B. Mattingly
Municipal Court, Hamilton County
Hon. Carla D. Moore
Ohio Court of Appeals, Ninth District
Hon. Robert C. Pollex
Wood County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Robert P. Ringland
Clermont County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Joseph N. Schmenk
Defiance County Court of Common Pleas
Hon. Lee Sinclair
Stark County Court of Common Pleas, Chair, Ohio Judicial College Board
of Trustees
Hon. Lynn C. Slaby
Ohio Court of Appeals, Ninth District
Hon. Thomas F. Zachman
Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, retired
Others have volunteered to
be hosts and liaisons for incoming resource judges whose training program
is described in this web site's 2007 schedule. 15 Ohio and 15 Maryland
judges begin Platform A's program, along with approximately 145 judges
from 39 additional jurisdictions. Eight ASTAR Fellows served as judicial
faculty for New York's complex evidence seminar, using their training
to in turn train their New York colleagues. Their performances drew high
praise.
Many Fellows have volunteered
to design elements of the Platform B (advanced science) Judges' Nanotechnology
Institute scheduled for late March 2007 at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. Their colleagues also serve on Steering Groups for the 2007
National Judges' Science School at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine (Neuroscience / Bio-Behavioral Technologies) and the 2007
Platform B Advanced Forensics Institute at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, New York.
In keeping with this well-deserved
appreciation for the judicial officers whose talents make ASTAR's work
possible, two behind-the-scenes toilers stand out.
The first is the Hon. Glenn
T. Harrell, Jr., Judge of Maryland's highest court, and Chair of the Board
for the Judicial Institute of Maryland. Judge Harrell's tireless work
on behalf of the resource judge effort takes many forms and has moved
us ahead substantially. His work excelled to our benefit in promoting
transparency with and achieving praise from the practicing Bar of Maryland.
A second quiet contributor
is the Hon. Eric T. Washington, Chief Judge of the DC Court of Appeals.
CJ Washington guided a merger of ASTAR and ASTA Board during the past
several months, resulting in a firm foundation for program certification,
an ASTAR principle. He provides continuing guidance as a Member of ASTAR's
executive committee, and promotes our program development in many important
ways, providing an absolutely essential ambassadorial service to judicial
and scientific institutions across the Nation.
Thanks to all and best regards.
Franklin
On Tuesday, February
27, 2007 the
Washington Post reported in page 2 story by Rick Weiss, the U. S. Department
of Agriculture's approval of a biotechnology company's permit for Kansas
outdoors farming of rice with human genes to grow medicinal proteins.
The legal implications are huge. Stay tuned. F.Z.
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Dr. Zweig and son,
Ben, a few years ago, enjoying a relaxing Utah moment during the conduct
of EINSHAC's Mountain West Genetics in the Courtroom seminar.
It helped inspire the ASTA Resource Judge Movement superintended by
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* State ex rel. sicians for
Responsible Medicine v. Ohio State Univ. Bd. Of Trustees, 108 Ohio St. 3d
283, 2006-Ohio-903. Schirmer v. Mt. Auburn Obstetrics and Gynecologic Assoc.,
Inc, ___Ohio St. 3d___, 2006-Ohio-942
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