Committees
Communication and Membership
Chair: Hon. Kem Thompson Frost
The Communication and Membership Committee creates and publishes the Scribes e-newsletter, The Scrivener, twice per year. Committee members work with the President and Executive Director to collect Scrivener articles and news, including updates from Scribes members.
The committee creates posts for Scribes’s social media pages at least quarterly. Posts may feature Scribes’s projects, members, and other items of interest to members and prospective members.
The committee suggests new content for the website and helps the Executive Director ensure website content is current.
The committee works with the Executive Director to help ensure existing members renew their membership and to recruit Board members for committee service. The committee explores and executes initiatives to increase membership and awareness of Scribes.
The committee regularly updates information regarding past award winners and National Order of Scribes members to re-engage those individuals with Scribes.
Governance
Chair: Darby Dickerson
The Governance Committee solicits and nominates new members and officers as needed and works with the President on other Board Governance matters as needed.
Book Award
Chair: Hon. Michael Hyman
The Book Award Committee selects the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year.
Brief Writing Award
Chair: Hon. Kenneth Gartner
The Brief Writing Award Committee selects the best student-written brief.
Law Review Article Award
Chair: TBD
The Law Review Article Committee selects the best student-written article in a law review or journal.
Law Review Project
Co-Chairs: Darby Dickerson and Brooke Bowman
The Law Review Project Committee plans and implements the annual National Conference for Law Reviews and offers other programming relevant to law-review editors and faculty advisors. The committee prepares a biennial law review survey and then compiles and analyzes the results. The committee considers when to propose a second edition of Scribes’s Manual for Law Review Editors.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Chair: Tessa Dysart
The Lifetime Achievement Award Committee vets and recommends to the full Board one or more individuals whose lifetime work reflects a commitment to excellent legal writing.
Program Committee
Chair: Darby Dickerson | Vice Chair: Michele Jochner
The Program Committee plans the one-hour Annual Meeting CLE program and at least two other one-hour CLE programs each year. The committee considers programming with other organizations, with an emphasis on bringing more awareness to Scribes and hopefully recruiting additional individual members. The committee also suggests and helps develop additional programming for Scribes’s Canvas page.
Scribes Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Boyd
The Scribes Journal Committee solicits and edits top-quality articles for the Scribes Journal.
Scribes Tips
Chair: Mark Cooney
The Scribes Tips Committee prepares regular Scribes tips that we email to members.
Strategic Initiatives and Planning
Chair: Michele Jochner
The Strategic Initiatives and Planning Committee will develop plans to hold a Board retreat in 2025 and begin planning for Scribes’s 75th anniversary in 2026.