Judicial system administrators from nine southeastern states and officials from the National Center for State Courts will be in Nashville Oct. 30-31 for a conference hosted by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts.
Court administrators from Tennessee, Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida are attending the annual regional meeting of the national Conference of State Court Administrators. COSCA was created in 1953 to improve state court systems. Membership consists of state court administrators or equivalent officials from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands.
“The southern regional conference will focus on issues of concern and common interest to court administrators,” said Cornelia Clark, director of the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts. “Court systems across the nation are grappling with rapid caseload growth and other problems created, in part, by societal changes. Conferences such as this one are valuable because, by gathering and sharing information, we can avoid having to come up with 50 different solutions to the same problem.”
Sessions at the conference, to be held at the state Capitol, include Judicial Performance and Evaluation, Courts on the Internet, the Tennessee Parenting Plan and Pro Se Litigants.