Hiring Ethical Employees: How Can We Hire “The Good Ones”?

Question of Ethics: A Conversation on Courts and Ethics – January 26, 2022, Episode

Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM

What actions can a court take to optimize the hiring of ethical staff? What can you do to ensure that the people you hire will adhere to your court’s Code of Conduct? Relying on the book by Bruce Weinstein, The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High Character Employees, the Ethics Subcommittee explores some of the personal qualities that ethical employees possess. These qualities include honesty, accountability, care, courage, fairness, gratitude, humility, loyalty, patience, and presence. What can we do during the selection process to ensure that we hire employees with these qualities?

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Today’s Moderator

Norman Meyer: Retired Clerk for the Federal Bankruptcy Court, District of New Mexico

Today’s Panel

Courtney Whiteside: Director, Municipal Court, St. Louis, Missouri

Stacy Worby: State Jury Coordinator, Alaska State Court System

Peter Kiefer: Retired Court Professional

Eric Silverberg: Court Administrator for the City Court in Tucson, Arizona

Karl Thoennes: Court Administrator, 2^nd Judicial Circuit Court, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Stacy Owsley: Deputy Human Resources Director, Pima County Superior Court, Tucson, Arizona

Rick Pierce: Judicial Programs Administrator, Pennsylvania Administrative of the Courts

Time Marker Sheet

January 26, 2023, A Question of Ethics Time Marker Sheet

January 26, 2023 PowerPoint

Leave a question or comment about the episode at ethics@nacmnet.org

Published by Peter C. Kiefer

Peter C. Kiefer is a career court veteran with over 40 years experience working with trial courts in Oregon, Arizona, and California. He has been an administrator in general jurisdiction and limited jurisdiction trial courts; he has also worked for state court administrative offices in both Oregon and California. He has consulted with the judicial systems in Liberia, Moldova, and Beirut, Lebanon, as well as being a member of a NACM delegation that visited the People’s Republic of China. Peter graduated from Santa Clara University with his bachelor’s degree in Political Science, and received his Masters of Public Administration with a specialty in Court Administration from the University of Southern California. In 2016 he became a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management. In 2015 Peter was given the NACM Award of Merit. View all posts by Peter C. Kiefer