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SJC Reminder: Please Complete Judicial Evaluations The Supreme Judicial Court’s Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee reminds you of the importance of responding to the questionnaires being sent to attorneys to evaluate the performance of Trial Court judges in Massachusetts. The purpose of the SJC’s Judicial Performance Evaluation program is to enhance judicial performance and the quality of the judicial branch. Crucial to this effort is the full participation of the bar. Judges of the Boston Municipal, District, Probate and Family, Housing and Juvenile Courts in Suffolk County will be evaluated starting in mid-February by attorneys, court employees and jurors. Any attorney that receives a questionnaire should take the time to complete it, as the more responses received, the more accurate the judicial evaluations will be. The SJC’s evaluation program is the best opportunity for attorneys to voice their opinions of the members of the judiciary. Attorneys who have appeared repeatedly in these courts in the last two years, according to computerized court records, will receive questionnaires. Attorneys will either receive a copy of the questionnaire in the mail, or if we have their email address, an email instructing them to log-in to our website to complete the evaluation online. As required by statute, the evaluations are confidential and anonymous. The results will be transmitted to the judge, the chief justice of his/her court department, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and the Chief Justice of Administration and Management. |