Last year, I was chosen by the members of the Commission on Judicial Conduct to be its chair—an honor I accepted with great respect for both the Judiciary and the commission.
In many ways, this is a fascinating time for the body charged with enforcing the rules governing judicial conduct, applicable to the 3,300 judges and justices of the state unified court system. Commission membership is at full strength for the first time since 2011 and more closely reflects the diversity of New York’s population than ever before. It is a remarkably active enforcement body, winnowing out thousands of complaints to ensure that the relatively small number of judges who engage in misconduct—wherever they sit—are subject to appropriate sanction. Every month, new issues, such as potentially problematic social media posts, present challenging questions for the commission, as they do for the Judiciary.
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