The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state’s approximately 3,600 judges and justices, as well as hundreds of judicial hearing officers, support magistrates, court attorney-referees, and judicial candidates (both judges and non-judges seeking election to judicial office). The committee interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100) and, to the extent applicable, the Code of Judicial Conduct. The committee consists of 27 current and retired judges, and is co-chaired by the Honorable Margaret Walsh, a justice of the supreme court, and the Honorable Lillian Wan, a court of claims judge and acting supreme court justice.

Digest: Provided that the judge’s interest in seeking elective nonjudicial office is not announced in advance, a judge need not resign from judicial office before attending a political party’s caucus to nominate candidates and allowing eligible party members to vote on whether to nominate the judge for that office.  If the judge receives the nomination, the judge must immediately resign from judicial office.

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