Conference Recap
Judicial Branch Education: Past Revealed, Future Exposed
Presented by Hon. Scott Brownell, Circuit Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit, Bradenton, Florida
The Learning Objectives for this brief presentation were:
a) Recognize what judicial branch education has meant from a judicial perspective and
b) Discuss the significance of judicial branch education in developing the highly developed judge.
The participants were asked first to consider and write, and then to discuss in groups at each
table, what their judiciary would have been like without them. In the personal thinking and writing,
the goal was to evaluate their judicial education efforts by thinking about a judicial world
that had none. This is not a common way to assess what one’s profession has accomplished.
Thus, sharing one’s ideas with the group and having the group then report to the class
creates a more significant way to “Recognize” the information sought, than by listening
to one participant’s opinion. If there is time, the presenter’s opinion is added
at the end.
The participants were then given a second task of evaluation. After reviewing Professor Murrell’s
qualities of the Highly Developed Judge (HDJ), each class member is asked to identify a judge
(or some judges) who possess one of the six qualities identified by Professor Murrell. Each was
then asked to evaluate what he or she and the team they work with has done to foster or support
that HDJ quality for that judge. This was repeated for one or two additional qualities of the
Highly Developed Judge. The individuals again shared their findings with others in their group,
and then with the class.
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