Required to accomplish our mission are four paramount values representing the core of what we stand for as an organization:

• Independence
• Fairness
• Integrity
• Quality Service

The Report of the Judiciary Strategic Planning Committee, approved by the Supreme Court in December 1998, provides as follows:

“The Judiciary should take appropriate steps to ensure that all court users – litigants, witnesses, volunteers, attorneys, or others – are treated with civility, dignity, respect and without discrimination.”