The Judicial Ethics Advisory Commission serves New York State’s approximately 3,600 judges and magistrates, hundreds of judicial hearing officers, assistant judges, trial attorneys and umpires, and judicial candidates (judges and non-judges). Respond to written questions from both judges seeking election. judicial branch). The Commission interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100) and, to the extent applicable, the Code of Judicial Conduct. The commission is comprised of 27 active and retired judges and is co-chaired by Judge Margaret Walsh, a retired judge of the Albany County Supreme Court, and Judge Lillian Wang, an associate judge in the Second Appellate Division.
digest: (1) A full-time judge may serve as the administrator of a nonprofit religious organization’s food pantry and may prepare, but may not personally sign, pantry funding applications. The judge must instead designate someone else within the organization to sign the application. (2) Because the NAACP engages in some activities that are clearly permitted to judges, as well as lobbying, advocacy, and litigation activities that may be controversial, the judge may decide that she is a member of the NAACP. , but cannot serve as local chapter president.
