Judicial Ethics Committee Opinions - 1997

• 97-1

  Can a judge accept appointment to an executive branch agency advisory council?

• 97-2

  What ethical considerations apply to the winding up of the affairs of a professional corporation, of which a newly appointed judge is the sole shareholder, particularly with respect to certain employment agreements the corporation has with other attorneys?

• 97-3

  A newly appointed judge requests an opinion whether continued service on the board of a private foundation violates the Nebraska Code of Judicial Conduct. The foundation does not solicit funds or accept funds from any source other than properties upon which the foundation was based. (The foundation is a family foundation, the original bequest was from an estate, and additional bequests are anticipated from other estates). The purpose of the foundation is to make charitable grants.

• 97-4

  Can a judge serve as a board member of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln's Chancellor's Committee of Visitors?

• 97-5

  Request withdrawn, opinion never issued

• 97-6

  May a judge accept appointment to be a member of a Community Response Team which mobilizes community resources to reduce and prevent domestic violence by developing a coordinated approach to respond to crimes of domestic violence?

• 97-7

  May a judge

  • serve as a trustee of a trust created for the benefit of an incapacitated cousin and
  • receive her Social Security disability payments as a designated payee?