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The Texas Center for the Judiciary is proud to announce the following programs scheduled for 2011. These conferences are generously funded by the Texas Department of Transportation’s Traffic Safety grant at the Texas Center.

DWI College for Trial Judges, July 11-13, 2011, AT&T Conference Center, Austin
Join your fellow judges for a nuts and bolts conference dealing with impaired driving issues. The Texas Center for the Judiciary and the Texas Association of Counties will host this joint conference for trial judges and constitutional county judges. Registration materials will be available in May!

DWI Court Judges Conference, August 29, 2011, AT&T Conference Center, Austin
Join your fellow DWI Court judges in this informative conference. Topics include a legislative update after the 2011 session, judicial immunity, and plenty of discussion with your peers. You may stay for the morning or attend the DWI College for Team Members and Student Conduct Officers which follows. Registration materials will be available in June!

DWI College for Team Members and Student Conduct Officers, August 29-31, 2011, AT&T Conference Center, Austin
DWI Court judges, team members and student conduct officers will enjoy classes on addiction, pharmacology, sentencing, and other impaired driving issues. Teams may attend without their judges. Student conduct officers will join the College from Monday afternoon through Tuesday lunch. Registration materials will be available in June!

Traffic Safety Grant Program

The Texas Center for the Judiciary is the proud recipient of a Traffic Safety Grant from the Texas Department of Transportation.

With this site we hope to provide additional resources to judges who preside over DWI cases.

We recognize that a DWI case can be one of the most complex and challenging criminal cases for the trial judge to preside over and for the sentencing judge to supervise. Jury selection is difficult, and the trial raises complex issues involving a mixture of scientific, expert, and lay testimony. The purpose of this site is to help Texas judges who handle these cases by providing legal resources, educational articles on pertinent subjects, a forms depository, and a convenient forum for Texas judges to exchange their ideas directly with each other.

To request technical assistance with DWI cases, please contact Judge Mark D. Atkinson, Judicial Resource Liaison.

To inquire about educational programs, please contact Ms. Holly Doran, Program Administrator.

The Texas Center for the Judiciary wishes to express its gratitude to Mr. Terry Pence, Traffic Safety Director, Traffic Operations Division and Mr. Frank Saenz, Alcohol and Other Drugs Programs Manager, Texas Department of Transportation, for their valuable assistance in procuring funding and helping to implement this web site.