Advisory Committee
Since 1986, the Supreme Court-appointed Advisory Committee on the Code of Judicial Conduct has been responding to inquiries from judges seeking guidance on ethical dilemmas, including but not limited to:

• personal business dealings
• political activities
• acceptance of gifts
• charitable work
• teaching and writing

Advisory Opinion Letters
The Committee responds to these inquiries in the form of advisory opinion letters.   JEC has compiled in a database scanned copies of all opinion letters since 1995.  Please use caution with any letter dated prior to 1995 as these were written prior to the adoption of the 1995 Code of Judicial Conduct.

Search Opinion Letters
Instructions
You can search our database of opinion letters by four different methods. 

• number and date of the opinion letter
• subject matter (ie:  “Renting office to attorneys”)
• section of the Code of Judicial Conduct applied in the letter (ie:  §21-500 D)
• applicable section of the JEC handbook on ethics (ie:  section 10-850)