The Supreme Court of Ohio
& The Ohio Judicial System

Boards, Commissions, Advisory Committees & Task Forces

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The Supreme Court of Ohio relies upon numerous boards, commissions, advisory committees, and task forces to help meet its constitutional and statutory authorities to exercise general superintendence over all courts in the state and provide oversight to the practice of law. The boards, commissions, advisory committees, and task forces are created by action of the Court or the Chief Justice and operate pursuant to specific rules or guidelines. They are made up of judges, attorneys, clerks of court, other court personnel, and private citizens from throughout Ohio.

In September 2005, the Court adopted Guidelines for the Creation and Operation of Supreme Court Boards, Commissions, Advisory Committees, and Task Forces. The guidelines specify what constitutes a board, commission, advisory committee, or task force, how they are created, and how members are appointed to these bodies. Pursuant to the authority of these guidelines, the Chief Justice has issued Guidelines for Supreme Court Advisory Committees and Guidelines for Supreme Court Task Forces which serve as a template for the operational guidelines of those bodies which are created and appointed by the Chief Justice exclusively.

The membership of the boards, commissions, advisory committees, and task forces fulfill specifically designated duties and responsibilities. To help guide the activities of the membership, the Court has also adopted a Code of Ethics for Court Appointees and Guidelines for Travel by Court Appointees.

Boards

►Board of Bar Examiners

►Board of Commissioners on Character & Fitness

►Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline

►Board on the Unauthorized Practice of Law

►Clients' Security Fund

►Judicial College Board of Trustees

Commissions

►Commission on Certification of Attorneys as Specialists

►Commission on Continuing Legal Education

►Commission on the Ohio Judicial Center

►Commission on Professionalism

►Commission on the Rules of Practice & Procedure

►Commission on the Rules of Superintendence

►Commission on Technology and the Courts

►Committee on the Appointment of Counsel for Indigent Defendants in Capital Cases

►Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission

Advisory Committees

►Advisory Committee on Children, Families & the Courts

►Advisory Committee on Court Security & Emergency Preparedness

►Advisory Committee on Dispute Resolution

►Advisory Committee on Domestic Violence

►Advisory Committee on Interpreter Services

►Advisory Committee on the Judicial Family Network

►Advisory Committee on Mental Illness & the Courts

Task Forces

►Task Force on the Certification of Court Reporters

►Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct

►Task Force on Commercial Dockets

►Task Force to Review the Ohio Disciplinary System

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