President of National Center for State Courts

USA

Roundtable 04:
Training judges on the administration of justice on “toward a global campus for court executive education and development”
Roundtable 11:
Effectiveness of judicial training: what assessment tools should be used?

Is President of the National Center for State Courts, having been appointed to that position on August 9, 2004.  Previously, McQueen served as Washington State Court Administrator, 1987-2004; Director of Judicial Services, Washington State Office of the Administrator for the Courts, 1979-87; Court Planning Officer, District of Columbia Courts; Planning Coordinator, Kentucky Department of Justice; and Manager, Evaluation Unit, Kentucky Department of Corrections.

As an advocate for court and judicial reform, she has served on the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts and Conference of State Court Administrators (President-1995-96); Chair, American Bar Association’s Judicial Administration Division (Lawyers Conference); Chair of the Court Management Council; and a member of the Board for Judicial Administration, Judicial Information Systems Committee, Information Services Board, and Board for Court Education and Ethics Advisory Committee.

McQueen’s work has received acclaim through numerous awards and honors, including induction into the Warren E. Burger Society of the National Center for State Courts; the American Judicature Society’s Herbert Harley Award in 2004, the joint ABA National Center for State Courts Jury Standards Award, 1989; and the National Center for State Courts Distinguished Service Award, 1991.  Her educational achievements include participating in the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and degrees from the University of Georgia (BA) and Seattle University Law School (JD).

She is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court and Washington State Bar Associations.