Judge Gary W. Lynch of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, has been selected to serve on the National Center for State Court’s Board of Directors.

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The National Center for State Courts studied a sample of 10 judicial circuits in Missouri and discovered “an important relationship" between the number of prosecutors and public defenders in a given county.

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Volunteer opportunities – like the one that took Jim Woodward and Helen Haskins to Kosovo – are just one component of the National Center for State Courts’ international program. In the last 18 years, the NCSC has partnered with donors ...

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Two St. Louis area court administrators recently returned from a two-week stint advising court workers in Kosovo how to handle some of the day-to-day issues that arise when it comes to running a court system. Jim Woodward, court clerk for the U.S. District Court in St. Louis, and Helen Haskins, court administrator for the St. Louis Circuit Court, were among several volunteers in the National Center for State Courts' Rule of Law project in Kosovo. They served in the model courts program, advising their counterparts about such things as case management and an administrator's role in the courts, as well as about how to keep the courts running during courthouse renovation.

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