Overview
Texas. Supreme Court. Provost of
Judicial Education.
Records
1988-1993
(bulk 1992-1993)
Records consist of
reports, correspondence, minutes, surveys, curricula, and research files that
date from 1988 to 1993, with the bulk from 1992 to 1993. These records were
generated or collected by the Provost of Judicial Education and document the
activities and recommendations of the Provost, the state of judicial education
in Texas, and debates regarding the future of judicial education programs.
2 cubic ft.
English.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Restrictions on Use
None.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Records, Provost of Judicial Education, Texas
Supreme Court. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library
and Archives Commission.
Agency History
The Texas Supreme Court appointed William W. Gibson, Jr. as Provost of
Judicial Education for the year beginning September 1, 1992, to advise the
court on the operation of education programs for judges, court officials and
personnel, to aid in program development, to encourage cooperation among the
recipients of judicial and court personnel training funds, and to encourage the
use of new technologies and alternatives to traditional education programs.
Gibson, a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, took a leave
of absence from his teaching duties to serve as Provost. The Provost studied
and participated in numerous judicial education programs, met with the agencies
that provide judicial education programs, served as a clearinghouse for
judicial scholarships and program invitations, reviewed grant applications for
the State Justice Institute, and worked on developing education programs with
interested parties. He conducted an education needs assessment survey of Texas
judges, and formed an advisory committee of representatives from the three
judicial training centers that received funding from the Texas Supreme Court.
The Provost submitted a final report to the court in August 1993. In September
1993, responsibility for judicial education was transferred from the Texas
Supreme Court to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a result of Senate Bill
947, 73rd Legislature, Regular Session.
Scope and Contents of the Records
Records consist of reports, correspondence, minutes, surveys,
curricula, and research files that date from 1988 to 1993, with the bulk from
1992 to 1993. These records were generated or collected by the Provost of
Judicial Education and document the activities and recommendations of the
Provost, the state of judicial education in Texas, and debates regarding the
future of judicial education programs. The Provost's “Final Report to the
Supreme Court of Texas” gives an overview of judicial education in Texas,
summarizes the Provost's activities, and gives the Provost's recommendations
for improvements. The Provost's activities are detailed in his reports to Texas
Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage. Also included are materials on agencies that
received funds from the Texas Supreme Court for providing judicial and court
personnel training, including the Texas Justice Court Training Center, Texas
Municipal Courts Training Center, Texas Center for the Judiciary, Texas
District and County Attorneys Association, and Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association. Reports and correspondence from three other bodies--the Study
Committee on Judicial and Court Personnel Education Programs, the Texas
Judicial Education Delegation to the Leadership Institute in Judicial
Education, and the Judicial Education Reference, Information and Technical
Transfer Project--were used by the Provost in preparing his final report and
provide additional information on judicial education in Texas and throughout
the U.S. A large quantity of publications, instructional materials, ephemera,
and miscellaneous materials were separated from the records because they were
better suited as library materials, proprietary in nature, and/or of limited
informational or evidential value.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily
reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to
provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
Organization of the Records
These records are organized into 14 series:
- Administrative files
- Reports to the Texas Supreme Court
- Needs Assessment Survey
- Advisory Committee
- Judicial Education Executive Committee
- Texas Justice Court Training Center
- Texas Municipal Courts Training Center
- Texas Center for the Judiciary
- Texas District and County Attorneys Association
- Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
- Other judicial education programs
- Scholarships, invitations and program development
- Reports on judicial education
- Research files
Index Terms
The terms listed here were used to catalog the
records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.
Subjects:
Judges--Education--Texas.
Document Types:
Correspondence--Texas--Judges--Education--1988-1993.
Minutes--Texas--Judges--Education--1988-1993.
Reports--Texas--Judges--Education--1988-1993.
Personal Names:
Gibson, William W.
Functions:
Examining judicial
education programs.
Related Material
None.
Processing Information
Arranged and described by Mike Widener and Emma Widener, consulting
archivists, August 1993, under contract with the Provost of Judicial
Education.
Paul Beck, June 1994
Accession Information
Accession number: 1994/098
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information
Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the
Texas Supreme Court, Provost of Judicial Education on May 17, 1993.
Records,
1988-1993 (bulk 1992-1993),
2 cubic ft.
Administrative
files
1994/098-1
Appointment of Provost,
1992
1994/098-1
Budget records,
1992-1993
1994/098-1
Personnel records,
1992-1993
1994/098-1
W. W. Gibson's leave of absence,
1992
1994/098-1
Texas Supreme Court rules and guidelines for judicial
education
1994/098-1
General correspondence,
1992-1993
1994/098-1
Clippings re: Provost and Texas judicial education
reforms,
1992-1993
Reports to the Texas Supreme
Court
1994/098-1
Report to Justice Gammage,
20 July 1992
1994/098-1
Report to Justice Gammage,
3 Nov. 1992
1994/098-1
Report to Justice Gammage,
4 Jan. 1993
1994/098-1
Meeting with Texas Supreme Court,
13 Jan. 1993
1994/098-1
Report to Justice Gammage,
19 Feb. 1993
1994/098-1
Meeting with Texas Supreme Court,
25 Feb. 1993
1994/098-1
Report to Justice Gammage,
10 May 1993
1994/098-1
Report to Justice Gammage,
26 May 1993
1994/098-1
“Final Report to the Supreme Court of Texas from
the Provost for Judicial Education,”
Aug. 1993
Needs Assessment
Survey
1994/098-1
“Final Report to the Office of the Provost for
Judicial Education of the Supreme Court of Texas on a Survey of the Texas
Judiciary,”
31 July 1993
1994/098-1
Survey instrument,
1993
1994/098-1
Drafts,
1993
1994/098-1
Texas Municipal Courts Training Center needs
assessment project,
1992
1994/098-1
General,
1993, undated
Advisory Committee to the Provost
for Judicial Education
1994/098-1
General,
1992
1994/098-1
Meeting of 21 Jan. 1993
1994/098-1
Meeting of 15 Mar. 1993
Judicial Education Executive
Committee
1994/098-1
Agenda materials,
17 Apr. 1992
1994/098-1
Research materials,
26 Mar. 1993
1994/098-1
Agenda materials,
26 Mar. 1993
Texas Justice Court Training
Center
1994/098-1
Program descriptions,
1989-1993
1994/098-1
Grant applications,
1992
1994/098-1
Seminar evaluations,
1992-1993
1994/098-1
General,
1992-1993
Texas Municipal Courts Training
Center
1994/098-1
Program descriptions,
1990-1993
1994/098-1
Grant applications,
1992-1993
1994/098-1
Meeting,
10 Oct. 1992
1994/098-1
Board of directors meeting,
15 Jan. 1993
1994/098-1
General,
1992-1993
Texas Center for the
Judiciary
1994/098-1
Program descriptions,
1989-1992
1994/098-2
Grant application,
1992
1994/098-2
Texas College of Advanced Judicial Studies program
materials, Gibson presentation
(7-10 Mar. 1993)
1994/098-2
Texas College for New Judges, evaluation forms,
1992
Texas District and County Attorneys
Association
1994/098-2
Program descriptions,
1988-1992
1994/098-2
Grant application,
1992
1994/098-2
Request for opinion on use of grant funds,
1992
1994/098-2
General,
1992
Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association
1994/098-2
Program descriptions,
1988-1992
1994/098-2
Grant application,
1992
Other judicial education
programs
1994/098-2
County and District Clerks' Association of Texas,
program descriptions,
1990-1993
1994/098-2
Texas Association for Court Administration, program
descriptions,
1992
1994/098-2
Office of Court Administration, Accounting and Fiscal
Management Seminar,
23 June 1992
1994/098-2
Galveston County district courts, grant application,
1993
Scholarships, invitations and
program development
1994/098-2
Judicial scholarships, general
1994/098-2
National Judicial College, “Courts and
Communities: Confronting Violence in the Family,” correspondence,
1992-1993
1994/098-2
National Judicial College, gender bias workshop,
correspondence re: scholarships,
1993
1994/098-2
National Judicial College, “Rights and Needs of
Victims of Crime for Texas Judges,”
(22-23 Apr. 1993), program materials,
program development, and invitations,
1992-1993
1994/098-2
National Judicial College, “A Partnership for
Safe Communities: Courts, Education and Literacy,” correspondence re
scholarships,
1993
1994/098-2
“Workshop for Judges on HIV/AIDS and
Tuberculosis,” invitation,
1993
1994/098-2
Correspondence and materials re: Master of Laws
program,
1992-1993
Reports on judicial
education
1994/098-2
Study Committee on Judicial & Court Personnel
Education Programs:
1994/098-2
Final report,
Oct. 1992
1994/098-2
Responses to final report,
1992-1993
1994/098-2
Survey response, Texas District and County Attorneys
Association,
16 Mar. 1992
1994/098-2
Survey response, Texas Municipal Courts Training
Center,
2 Mar. 1992
1994/098-2
Survey response, Justices of Peace and Constables
Association,
Mar. 1992
1994/098-2
Survey response, Texas Center for the Judiciary,
8 Mar. 1992
1994/098-2
General,
1991
1994/098-2
Texas Judicial Education Delegation to the Leadership
Institute in Judicial Education, final report and correspondence,
1992
1994/098-2
John K. Hudzik,
<emph render="underline">Issues and Trends in Judicial
Education, </emph>
1993
(East Lansing, Mich.: Judicial Education Reference,
Information and Technical Transfer Project, 1993)
Research files
1994/098-2
District and county court reported activity,
1 Sept. 1992 - 28 Feb. 1993
1994/098-2
Paul M. Li, “Judges Schools in the Modern
World,”
undated
1994/098-2
Supreme Court Task Force to Examine Appointments by
the Judiciary, final and minority reports,
Mar. 1993
1994/098-2
Judicial education funding,
1991-1993
1994/098-2
Course evaluation methods,
1990-1992
1994/098-2
New instructional technologies,
1992-1993
1994/098-2
National Association of State Judicial Educators,
<emph render="underline">1988 Survey of State Judicial Education
Organizations</emph>
1994/098-2
Senate Bill 947, drafts and correspondence,
1993