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Chapter Exchange
Left to right: 3L McKenna Cloud (President), Dean Emeritus Jim Rosenblatt (Faculty Advisor), Arthur Johnston III (Clerk of District Court), Dr. Blake Thompson (President, Mississippi College), Danny Miller (Clerk of Bankruptcy Court), and 2L Calvin Combs (President Elect).
FIFTH CIRCUIT
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Mississippi Chapter
The Mississippi College School of Law Student Chapter of the FBA hosted Federal Clerks of Court Danny Miller (Bankruptcy) and Arthur Johnston (District Court) to discuss the role of the clerks of court and the operations of their respective offices. They provided insightful and practical answers to the questions posed by the law students.
NINTH CIRCUIT
Northern District of California
On March 24, 2022, the Northern District of California Chapter held a panel titled “Insights: Sentencing, Guidelines and Future Trends With the U.S. Sentencing Commission, A Conversation with Senior Judge Charles R. Breyer.” Randy Sue Pollock, a federal criminal defense sole practitioner in Oakland (and FBA VP Oakland) moderated the program featuring panelists Jodi H. Linker, the Northern District of California’s newly appointed federal public defender; Catheryn Grier, a mitigation specialist and former U.S. probation officer for the Northern District of California; and Jeff Nedrow, the first assistant, U.S. Attorney’s Office. Judge Charles Breyer, brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, is the acting chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) and its sole member. There has not been a quorum on the USSC for four years, and he hopes that the White House appoints new commissioners soon, as his term ends this year. Judge Breyer highlighted the important reports that the USSC has issued, most recently one on compassionate release that covers all the grants/denials in the United States. He also spoke about his support of the Judiciary Sentencing Information, a tool providing federal judges with sentencing data. The March 24 panel was a highly informative program that will be posted soon on the chapter’s website.
