News Release

January 15, 2013

 

Contact: Steve Davis, Court Communications Officer, (515)725-8058

 

State of the Judiciary Message — January 16

 Des Moines, January 15, 2013— On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 10 a.m., in the House Chambers, Chief Justice Mark Cady of the Iowa Supreme Court will address a joint convention of the General Assembly on the State of the Judiciary.

Chief Justice Cady will present a vision for the future of the Iowa Judicial Branch: "to make the Iowa court system the best, most advanced, and the most responsive court system in the nation." Justices of the supreme court traveled throughout the state during the past 12 months listening to Iowans' expectations of the Iowa court system. The State of the Judiciary addresses how the Iowa court system is moving forward to best serve Iowans now and into the future, by protecting Iowa's children, providing full-time access to justice, operating an efficient and full service court system, providing faster and less costly resolution of legal disputes, continuing openness and transparency of the courts, and providing fair and impartial justice for all.

Live video of the speech will be broadcast on the Iowa Public Television .3 Channel (IPTV World) and streamed live on the Iowa Public Television website (www.iptv.org) and the Iowa Legislature's website (www.legis.iowa.gov) beginning at 10:00 a.m. The speech will be rebroadcast in HD at 6:30 p.m. on statewide IPTV's main channel.

Members of the media may obtain advance copies of the speech January 16, 2013, at 8:30 a.m., in the supreme court courtroom at the Capitol. The message will be posted on the Iowa Judicial Branch website www.iowacourts.gov at 10:45 a.m.

 

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