Recently Selected "State of the Judiciary" Speeches Delivered by State Chief Justices

These speeches were collected by the American Bar Association’s Coalition for Justice. The collection includes items obtained by searching for “State of Judiciary” on Web search engines such as Google.com, and thus is not intended to be comprehensive.  (It does not include a search of all state judiciary Web sites.) In some cases court administrators or court public information officers forwarded electronic versions.  The Coalition is grateful for their help.

You can access the “State of Judiciary” speeches in a PDF format. 

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The “State of the Judiciary” speeches are listed in chronological order.  Where available, the link to the Web site containing the address is provided. 

2008-2009
"State of the Judiciary" Speeches 

Page	State	Date Delivered
1	Alaska	February 11, 2009
11	Arizona	September 12, 2009
20	California	September 12, 2009
25	Colorado	January 9, 2009
29	Connecticut	May 14, 2009
36	Florida	February 17, 2009
45	Georgia	February 4, 2009
51	Idaho	January 20, 2009
55	Indiana	January 14, 2009
59	Iowa	March 6, 2009
77	Kansas	September 12, 2009
89	Kentucky	November 14, 2008
90	Louisiana	April 28, 2009
98	Maine	March 17, 2009
114	Massachusetts	September 12, 2009
128	Minnesota	September 12, 2009
138	Missouri	September 12, 2009
147	Montana	February 4, 2009
155	Nebraska	2009
166	New Hampshire	March 25, 2009
172	North Dakota	January 7, 2009
179	Oregon	January 9, 2009
189	Pennsylvania	2009
192	South Dakota	January, 2009
208	Texas	February 11, 2009
220	Utah	January 26, 2009
237	Virginia	2009