The Court Interpreter Program of Delaware’s Administrative Office of the Courts is the 2013 winner of the John Neufeld Award. Created in memory of John Neufeld, chief of education and training for the New Jersey judiciary and education program coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Association for Court Management, the award recognizes the achievements of an individual, a group, or a court system that has developed or implemented a significant or innovative court program in the Mid-Atlantic Region.

This award recognizes Delaware’s statewide language access program and the strong leadership role that Delaware has taken on the issue of language access at the national level. Among other recent initiatives, the Administrative Office of the Courts’ Court Interpreter Program implemented a procedure to track and quantify the current demands for language services and forecast future needs and projected costs; established evening case calendars for Limited English Proficient litigants in the Justice of the Peace Court; instituted a web-based calendar allowing courts to view and schedule available interpreters; and provided ongoing training on the role and function of interpreters to members of the judiciary and legal community. More.

See: Cape Gazette

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