Friday, March 05, 1999
Judge states case for journey to Paris
Commissioners study request for $1,500
BY LUCY MAY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Municipal Court Judge Nadine Allen has made her case to Hamilton County commissioners, explaining why she wants to go to Paris for a weeklong seminar on French law.
Commissioners Bob Bedinghaus and John Dowlin had questioned whether the trip was relevant and had asked the judge to reconsider her request.
Judge Allen still wants to go.
In a memo to the commissioners, Judge Allen wrote that county commissioners “do have a history of reimbursing judges partially or fully for out-of-state and international conferences on germane judicial subjects.”
She added that she is “particularly interested in this conference because I have served as the chair of the International Committee of the National Association of Women Judges. I was selected as a judicial delegate of the American Young Political Leaders in 1988 to study NATO, and the Euro pean common market, in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemborg.”
She said there are similarities between the French legal system and our own.
“As the globe continues to shrink in the next millennium, I am sure that there are new ... legal processes that would improve the administration of justice,” she wrote.
The judge wants $1,500 total for the trip, to pay registration and partially cover air fare, hotel and food. She said that's the standard annual allotment judges receive for out-of-state travel.
Mr. Bedinghaus said Thursday that he received Judge Allen's memo, and he's still reviewing it.
Questions had arisen over whether commissioners have the authority to approve travel for judges. Mr. Bedinghaus and County Administrator David Krings said the commissioners routinely receive such requests for approval.
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