Senate Journal: Page 62: Wednesday, January 15, 1997

  62 JOURNAL OF THE SENATE 3rd Day
  Mrs. Joan McGiverin, wife of the Chief Justice; and Ed and Joan
  McGiverin, Chief Justice McGiverin's cousin and his wife were escorted into
  the House chamber.

  The committee appointed waited upon Lieutenant Governor Joy
  Corning and escorted her to the speaker's station.
  The committee appointed waited upon Chief Justice McGiverin and
  escorted him to the speaker's station.
  President Kramer then presented Chief Justice McGiverin who
  delivered the following Condition of the Iowa Judiciary Message:
  Madam President, Mr. Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, Members of the General
  Assembly, State Officials, Judicial Colleagues and My Fellow Iowans:
  It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you each year. On behalf of the
  Judicial
  Branch, I want to thank you for this opportunity to report on the condition
  of our court system.

  I also want to extend a warm welcome to the new members of the Legislature.
  If you
  are not familiar with the operation of the Judicial Branch, I hope you will
  take some time from your busy schedules to become acquainted with it. One of
  the best
  ways to do that is to visit with your local district court officials --
  clerks of court, magistrates, judges, juvenile court officers and others.
  And please feel free to drop by
  our offices here in the Capitol at anytime to visit. You're always welcome.
  I invite all of you to join me and the other members of the judiciary, who
  are with us
  today, for refreshments and conversation downstairs in the courtroom
  following these remarks.

  My remarks today will focus on our past successes, our present challenges,
  and our
  high hopes for the future. I promise that I will not try to do the Macarena.
  I will, however, try to heed the words of one of my esteemed colleagues who
  said, "Never
  exhaust the topic or the audience."
  We are especially gratified to be able to report a number of successes we've
  had this
  year. Here are some of the highlights.
  By this summer, every courthouse in Iowa will be linked to our statewide
  computer
  network. The last of our clerk of court offices that have been waiting in
  line, dependent on the paper docket books used for over 150 years, will
  finally join the
  world of automation. Our computer network will serve as a foundation for the
  technological improvements that will be necessary to carry us into the
  twenty-first
  century.
  The benefits of our computer system extend beyond the courts. For example,
  we
  send over 1500 notices each week to the Departmentof Transportation so it
  can initiate license suspension procedures. This year, we started sending
  the information

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