New York (State). Judicial Conference

The Judicial Conference of the State of New York was established by Chapter 869 of the Laws of 1955 upon the recommendation of the Temporary Commission on the Courts, a body created to study the operation of the courts of the state. The powers and duties of the Judicial Council of the State of New York were assigned to the Judicial Conference at that time.

The conference was to continuously study and make recommendations on the transfer to the conference of administrative functions of various state courts then performed by judicial and non-judicial personnel of the courts; to study ways to relieve court congestion; to recommend assignment of judges and justices; to recommend relative to fiscal matters, pending legislation, and court decisions affecting the administration of justice; and to establish methods for the preservation, maintenance, and disposition of court records. Members of the conference included the chief judge of the court of appeals (chairman), presiding justices of each appellate division of the supreme court, and a supreme court justice from each department.

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