Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 12, 2007
Judges' Pay Must Keep Up With the Times
FORUM COLUMN - By Karen J. Mathis - At salaries matched by many first-year associates, federal judges are getting squeezed, says the president of the American Bar Association. The result may be the loss of talent where we need it most.
By Karen J. Mathis
On New Year's Day, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued the court's annual report on the state of the judiciary. He considered one issue so urgent that he made it the sole topic of his remarks: the declining real pay of America's federal judges.
Since 1969, federal judges have been caught in a finan...
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