Featured Speaker: The Honorable B. Lynn Winmill, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Idaho: “Investigating Yourself, A Tale of Woe”

The discipline of Federal Judges is done by Federal Judges. They investigate themselves. The Constitution requires this system to preserve the independence of the Federal Judiciary. Consequently, they face the serious problems accompanying any self-policing system. Judge Winmill presently sits on the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the main disciplinary body for Federal Judges in that Circuit. He comes to us, then, as a traveler returning from a broken land, with a cautionary tale about what happens in the absence of the type of independent oversight provided by NACOLE members.