Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Indiana University-Bloomington 1956, has been selected to receive the Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence, the highest honor of the American Judicature Society.
Vol. 77, No. 7, July
2004
Abrahamson recognized for judicial excellence
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Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Indiana
University-Bloomington 1956, has been selected to receive the Dwight D.
Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence, the highest honor of the
American Judicature Society.
The new award is given to a judge with at least 10 years of judicial
service whose written opinions "make clear that bench, bar and community
alike would willingly entrust that judge with the most complex cases of
the most far-reaching import." During her eight years as chief justice,
Abrahamson has spearheaded many activities, including the following: a
training and certification program for court interpreters; an initiative
to make courthouses safer; a program to increase the speed and
efficiency of cases involving children and their families; public
outreach programs; and efforts to make the legal system more
understandable to pro se litigants.
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