This website was initially compiled between May 2011 and May 2012 under the leadership of the Joint Civics Education Task Force of the Federal Judges Association (FJA), the Federal Magistrate Judges Association (FMJA) and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ). The members of the Task Force have contributed editorial content to this website, reviewed the recommended resources, and updated the content.
Generous funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made the project possible.
TASK FORCE MEMBERS:
- Judge Laura Taylor Swain, Task Force chair 2011-2012 and 2013-2015, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, Task Force chair 2012-2013, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Judge Laurel M. Isicoff, Task Force vice-chair 2011-2015, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Magistrate Judge Karen M. Roby, Task Force vice-chair 2011-2013, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Magistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier, Task Force vice-chair 2013-2014, U.S District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Magistrate Judge Karen Strombom, Task Force vice-chair 2014-2015, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
- Judge Deborah A. Batts, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Judge Christopher Conner, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Judge Joy Flowers Conti, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Magistrate Judge James Donohue, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
- Judge Paul Kelly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Judge Catherine McEwen, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Judge Philip R. Martinez, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- Judge Robert Miller, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- Judge Norman Mordue, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- Judge Dan Polster, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- Judge Edward C. Prado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Judge Richard Smoak, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- Intern Ryan Sellinger, Georgetown University Law Center
WEBSITE AUTHOR & DESIGNER / EDITOR:
- Prof. Susan Moeller is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Moeller is also professor of media and international affairs at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and an affiliated faculty member of the School of Public Policy at Maryland. Moeller is the author of a number of books, including Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit, Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death (1999) and Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat. Moeller received her AM and PhD from Harvard in History and the History of American Civilization and her BA at Yale University. In 2008, she was named a Carnegie Scholar for her work on Islam and she was also named a Teacher of the Year by the State of Maryland Board of Regents.
WEBSITE RESEARCHER:
- Andy Mosher is an international media consultant, writer and editor. He spent 28 years in the newspaper business, most recently with The Washington Post, where between 1990 and 2008 he was a deputy foreign editor, foreign copy chief, and national business editor. In 2000, Mosher trained journalists in Zambia as a Knight International Journalism Fellow. He is currently a law student at Georgetown University Law Center.