Highlights:  First Quarterly Membership Meeting, March 5, 2002: President Louise Phipps
Senft shared 2002 goals and objectives for MCDR: 
*Increase membership by 50%
*Increase diversity
*Get website up and running         
*Create a strong infrastructure
**Increase membership awareness of MCDR history 

**Dana Morris-Jones reported on efforts of the Certification Committee to improve the certification process
**MCDR Membership Brochure in development by Nancy Hirshman and Jonathan Rosenthal, Membership Co-Chairs.

Highlights:  May 2002 Executive Committee Meeting
**New standing committee established by consensus vote to serve as clearinghouse of information regarding confidentiality and issues relevant to judicial procedure. Questions? Contact Roger Wolf, Chair of the new committee, at 410-706-3836.

**Include in regular membership meetings an opportunity to entertain wants and requests of  MCDR members.

**Consensus voting per Bylaws Article IV, Section 1 affirmed.  Preference expressed for bullet summaries in minutes highlighting actions items.

**By consensus vote, bullet summaries of actions taken at Executive Committee meetings  and General Membership meetings will be included in the MCDR newsletter.

**Barbara Blake Williams, John Spiegel, Fay Mauro asked to review Bylaws and to recommend revisions, if any.

**Updated membership data shared with Membership Committee.

Highlights  Second Quarterly Membership Meeting, June 2002
**Feedback invited about whether MCDR should increase its   membership dues, especially in light of the suggestion that, at some  point, MCDR might want to hire staff to help with administrative  functions.

**By consensus vote, MCDR logo adopted scheduled for review at the  Spring 2003 quarterly meeting.

**Thanks for her term of service expressed to Wendy Swire, retiring  editor of Resolving Issues.  Gary Pinsky recognized as new editor of   Resolving Issues.
**Thanks for her term of service expressed to Dana Morris-Jones who is resigning as Co-Chair of the Certification Committee.  Rob  Ketchum recognized as new Co-Chair with Carl Schneider of the Certification Committee.

**Thanks to C.T. Butler for an insightful presentation on Conflict and Formal Consensus Decision-Making.

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