[United States Government Manual]
[July 01, 1995]
[Pages 85-86]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER

Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building,
One Columbus Circle NE., Washington, DC 20002
Phone: See ``Sources of Information'' section at end of statement
Director                                         Rya W. Zobel
Deputy Director                                  Russell R. Wheeler
Director of Research                             William B. Eldridge
Director of Planning and Technology              Gordon Bermant
Director of Judicial Education                   Robb M. Jones
Director of Court Education                      Emily Z. Huebner
Director of Publications and Media               Sylvan A. Sobel
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The Federal Judicial Center is the judicial branch's agency for planning 
and policy research, systems development, and continuing education.

The Federal Judicial Center was created by act of December 20, 1967 (28 
U.S.C. 620), to further the development and adoption of improved 
judicial administration in the courts of the United States.
    The Center's basic policies and activities are determined by its 
Board, which is composed of the Chief Justice of the United States, who 
is, by statute, permanent Chairman of the Board, and two judges of the 
United States courts of appeals, three judges of the United States 
district courts, and one bankruptcy judge, all of whom are elected for 
4-year terms by the Judicial Conference of the United States. The 
Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts is 
also a permanent member of the Board.
    Congress assigned the Center the following basic functions:
    --to conduct research on the operation of the United States courts 
and to stimulate and coordinate such research on the part of other 
public and private persons and agencies;
    --to stimulate, create, develop, and conduct programs of continuing 
education and training for judges and support personnel of the judicial 
branch;
    --to study and determine ways in which automatic data processing and 
systems procedures may be applied to the administration of the courts;
    --to provide staff, research, and planning assistance to the 
Judicial Conference and its committees, consistent with the performance 
of the other functions set forth above;
    --to develop recommendations for improvement in the administration 
and management of the courts and to submit recommendations to the 
Judicial Conference of the United States;
    --to submit to government agencies recommendations for improvement 
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their programs or activities that relate to the administration of 
justice;
    --to conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the 
history of the judicial branch; and
    --to cooperate with and assist other agencies and organizations in 
providing advice to further improvement in the administration of justice 
in the courts of foreign countries.

Sources of Information

Employment  Employment inquiries and applications may be directed to the 
Office of Personnel. Phone, 202-273-4165.
Publications  Single copies of most Federal Judicial Center publications 
are available free of charge. Phone, 202-273-4153.

For further information, contact the Federal Judicial Center, Thurgood 
Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, One Columbus Circle NE., 
Washington, DC 20002. For a recorded message and office directory, dial 
202-273-4000 on a touch-tone phone.

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