Comments on: The Situation of Judges http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/the-situation-of-judges-2/ Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stentor http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/the-situation-of-judges-2/#comment-14023 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:38:48 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=4557#comment-14023 The number of people who left judgeships because of the pay is said to be “numerous” — but without knowing what the actual number is, that doesn’t tell us much. We’re also asked to simply assume that more pay necessarily attracts better workers — a pretty crudely economistic assumption for a psychology blog. Considering we’re talking about six-figure salaries here, perhaps judges who are so fixated on money and so attached to a top-few-percent lifestyle *aren’t* the best for the job.

]]> By: Richard Schell http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/the-situation-of-judges-2/#comment-14011 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:17:33 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=4557#comment-14011 Dear Situationist Staff:
Thank you for the article about the failure of Congress once again to include federal judges in the cost of living adjustments that all other federal employees routinely receive. As in the years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2007, judges will see their real compensation diminished again. In those years when judges have received COLA’s, the percentage increase is always less than what other federal employees receive and less than the actual rate of inflation, and there is never a catch-up COLA to restore our diminished compensation. Perhaps our only option to make up some of the ground lost to inflation over the years is to get part-time jobs teaching or doing other things allowed under the Judicial Code of Conduct. Thanks for writing about our “situation”.

Richard Schell
U. S. District Judge
Eastern District of Texas
U. S. Courthouse
7940 Preston Road
Plano, Texas 75024
214-872-4820

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