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Texas Center for the Judiciary - Reaching the Bench Beyond the Courtroom

The Texas Center for the Judiciary (TCJ) is a nonprofit organization that has served the state's judicial branch for more than 50 years, supporting a membership of more than 3,500 active and retired judges and court professionals. The organization serves as the official registrar of continuing legal education (CLE) for the Texas judiciary, tracking compliance with legislatively mandated requirements that vary by judge type, term date, and specialty training area.

TCJ also delivers education and peer-networking opportunities through roughly 13 conferences and specialty programs each year.  

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INDUSTRY
Legal Professional Association 
SOLUTIONS
Clowder, iMIS
MEMBER SIZE
3,500+ 
WEBSITE

yourhonor.com 

THE PROBLEM

TCJ relied on scattered, hard-to-access methods for distributing conference materials and reaching its members. Session materials lived only within individual conference apps, making them difficult to locate for judges who had attended, and inaccessible to those who hadn't
TCJ had explored building its own resource library over the years but had not found a way to organize materials by topic or keep them reliably searchable over time. Communication was similarly fragmented, with members relying on email and having to search their inboxes for updates rather than checking a single, centralized source.
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THE IMPACT

Unified Resource Library
Reduced Email Dependence
Allowed Event Material Access to Non-Attendees

RESULTS

TCJ has centralized all conference materials into a single, searchable resource library, tagged and dated for instant retrieval by any member, whether they attended the event or not. Staff now target communications directly to specific audiences, such as the board or court professionals, instead of sending general messages to everyone. The news feed has also reduced TCJ's reliance on email, giving members one destination to check on their own time. Clowder gave TCJ the member resource-sharing hub it had been seeking for over a decade. 
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"Clowder is definitely something that our members have seen and appreciated."
Conference & Communications Director, Texas Center for the Judiciary