U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the creation of new judgeships has not kept pace with the growth in case filings over three decades, producing “profound” negative effects for many courts across the country, according to a U.S. Courts press release. Miller on behalf of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the national policy-making body of the federal Judiciary. Miller chairs a subcommittee on judicial statistics for the conference’s Committee on Judicial Resources. The Judicial Conference has recommended that Congress establish five new judgeships in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and 65 new judgeships in 24 district courts across the country. The Judicial Conference also recommended the conversion of 14 temporary bankruptcy judgeships to permanent status.
