For the first time, the model code of conduct for state and district judges stated that they were meant to avoid "sexual progress, sexual favor requests" and other such unwelcome acts.
Ethical and women's groups promoted the use of more specific languages, but welcomed special recognition of the disturbing issues that they considered to be ongoing.
The rule was last revised on 1990 and can be adopted at the American Bar Association meeting in Miami on Monday.
These groups say that women who complain about harassment by judges often encounter apathy or hostility from their judges colleagues and state committees, who and state committees should oversee the conduct of judges.
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What happened was very shocking, "said Lynn hehte shaflan, director of the National Justice education program.
The project was carried out in collaboration with women judges and women's rights organizations "legal momentum.
The code is not bound.
However, it has long been a model used by individual states in adopting the rules for disciplinary action of judges.
It covers a range of acts, including the moral conduct of judicial candidates, when a judge can accept a gift, and under what circumstances they should be disqualified from hearing a case.
The draft prepared by ABA has been criticized in several ways.
One reason is the proposed modification, because the deletion, which would weaken the admonition to the judge, not only to avoid the actual misconduct, but also to avoid the appearance of the misconduct.
Some ethics experts also say these rules are not doing enough to control spending --
Paid travel for judges and their spouses to legal seminars.
The proposed rules generally follow the code of ethics adopted for federal judges in September.
Such travel is permitted in federal rules, but the judge must disclose within 30 days, and the travel sponsor must disclose where they get the money from.
The rules also allow candidates who are elected judges to answer the interest group questionnaire, but prohibit candidates from making a commitment or commitment on how they, as judges, can make specific questions.
The ABA committee, which prepared the revised code, said that after hearing the witness's testimony, it adopted the wording on sexual harassment, and that the witness "stressed the need to make special reference to sexual harassment because of the nature of sexual harassment, the scope and history of the problem.
"A judicial ethics group has put forward a list of longer, more specific acts that judges should avoid:" Sexual progress, sexual favors requests, comments on physical attributes, repeated and unwanted attempts in romantic relationships, sexual gestures, offensive or suggestive remarks, explicit problems, inappropriate touch, lewd and vulgar language, suggestive or explicit pictures or images, as well as other unwelcome, gender-neutral oral or physical behaviors.
Schafran said the list was intended to provide clear guidance to the judges.
According to the American judicial Association, about 70 state judges have been publicly disciplined for sexual harassment since 1990. The American judicial Association is a non-partisan moral group, mainly composed of lawyers and judges.
The ethics group drafted a more specific language.
Schafran said several cases in recent years have highlighted the need for sexual harassment in the code of conduct.
In a case in Illinois, a divorced judicial clerk complained that the judge she worked for bought her a vibrator and spoke to her in a bare-bones manner, according to the Federal Court
In the end, a more senior judge told her that she should consider resigning.
The clerk Melissa Robinson eventually lost the federal employment discrimination case against Macon County.
Although the federal judge admitted that she had received unwelcome attention, Judge Warren supington.
At Nebraska, court reporter Debbie Keslar sued district court judge Bryce Bartu for sexual harassment, including inappropriate touch and invitation to sit on his lap and visit his hotel room at a meeting
Schafran said that the National Council for judicial qualifications did not take prompt action against Bartu and did not take action against earlier complaints against him.
Prior to Keslar's complaint, the Nebraska Supreme Court's policy against harassment never applied to the conduct of the judge.
The federal lawsuit was settled before the court session.