20 years ago this month:

• The Arkansas Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission publicly admonished a judge for an approximately 20-month delay in rendering a decision in a civil case.  Letter to Sawyer (Arkansas Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission September 23, 2002).
• The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct publicly admonished a judge for a public confrontation with another patron at a bar.  Public Admonition of Keeshan (Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct September 3, 2002).
• Pursuant to the recommendation of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, the Virginia Supreme Court publicly censured a judge for enforcing a child custody order that he knew had been stayed by another court.  Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission v. Lewis, 568 S.E.2d 687 (Virginia 2002).