Sexual harassment, discriminatory harassment, abusive behavior, and discrimination are prohibited in every Judiciary workplace. Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is so severe or pervasive that a reasonable person would find it intimidating, hostile, or abusive and that unreasonably interferes with an employee’s work. Abusive conduct is a pattern of egregious and hostile conduct that unreasonably interferes with work.

Judiciary employees are encouraged to report wrongful conduct to whomever they are most comfortable reporting to--a supervisor, unit executive, EDR coordinator, judge or human resources representative.  In addition, employees may also report workplace harassment or abusive behavior to our EDR coordinator, Sarah Bruce, at Sarah_Bruce@ncmba.uscourts.gov. Additional questions may be directed to the Fourth Circuit Director of Workplace Relations, Leila Jabbar at 804-916-2181, or the  Judicial Integrity Officer for the AO, Michael Henry, at 202-502-1603.

·  Current EDR Plan (revised 01-02-2021)

·  Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, 28 U.S.C. §§ 351-364

·  Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability Proceedings

·  FAQs: Filing a Complaint of Judicial Misconduct or Judicial Disability Against a Federal Judge

·  Judicial Complaint Form

·  Judicial Conduct & Disability Act Resources

·  Code of Conduct & Ethics Regulations