SUMMER 2022
Understanding Implicit Bias Is a Matter for Mandatory CLE I recently co-chaired the National Association of Women Judges’ committee on Racial Disparities in the Courts and had a chance to interview the Honorable Judge Bernice Donald on the 6th Circuit United States Court of Appeals who was invited to speak. I met Judge Donald over 12 years ago when she was presenting a breakout session on implicit bias at a joint Alaska Bar / Judicial Conference at the Dena’ina Center. Hundreds of lawyers and judges attended the conference but less than a dozen people attended Judge Donald’s breakout session on this important and emerging topic. I thought then as I do now, “ how do you get lawyers and judges to realize the impact of implicit bias in the legal profession?”
By Hon. Pamela Scott Washington Anchorage District Court Judge Vice President of Districts, NAWJ
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