Innovating Justice Award

Nomination and Selection Guidelines

The Innovating Justice Award recognizes an individual or group for providing exceptional leadership in helping courts across Washington State deliver innovative and responsive justice using a race equity lens.

Criteria for nomination

1. Nominations may be individuals or groups who have provided leadership in the court.
2. Nominees should have demonstrated leadership in delivering justice on a local, statewide, or tribal basis by going above and beyond in developing and/or implementing court system responses.

Selection of nominees

The selection committee is a diverse group representing various courts and organizations across Washington and assigned by the Board for Judicial Administration (BJA). The selection committee may use various criteria to determine the award recipients including that the nominee made significant contributions to the court community in the following areas:

• Promoted race equity and access to justice;
• Provided exceptional leadership and went above and beyond what is expected;
• Applied innovative and community-driven court system responses;
• Extent to which the court system responses significantly impacted and resolved critical court system needs.

The selection committee will accept nominations on an ongoing basis. The committee expects to recognize individuals or groups at the October BJA meeting each year. Nominations should be received by September 9, 2024.

• Innovating Justice Award Nomination Form

Recipients of the Innovating Justice Awards

• Innovating Justice Award Recipients