The Chief goes to Washington

Ninth Circuit's Judicial Conference to Convene in Spokane, Washington

• The 2019 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference will be held July 22-25 at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington.
• This year’s conference theme is “The Third Branch: 1919, 2019, and Beyond.” General session programs will include topics such as leadership issues in the law; how media coverage of the federal courts is shifting; legislation requiring federal district chief judges to promote pro bono services as a way to empower survivors of domestic violence; student loan debt; and the upcoming 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
• Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the Supreme Court of California is among the speakers scheduled to participate in one of the general session programs. The list of conference speakers also includes James C. Duff, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; Adam Liptak of The New York Times; Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News; Martin Wurm, Ph.D., of Moody’s Analytics; and Elaine Weiss, journalist and author of “The Woman’s Hour.”