Participation in Educational, Religious, Charitable, Fraternal, or Civic

Organizations and Activities (A) Subject to the requirements of Rule 3.1, a judge may participate in activities concerned with the law, the legal system, or the administration of justice, and those sponsored by or on behalf of educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organizations not conducted for profit as follows: (1) A judge may assist such an organization or entity in planning related to fund-raising and participating in the management and investment of the organization’s or entity’s funds. 23 (2) A judge shall not personally participate in the solicitation of such funds or other fund-raising activities, except that a judge may: Solicit funds from members of the judge’s family or (a) from other judges over whom the judge does not exercise supervisory or appellate authority; (b) Be listed as an officer, director, or trustee of such an organization on its fund-raising letters, but may not sign that letter or be listed as a judge or as honorable; and (c) Work at a fund-raising event so long as the judge’s participation could not be reasonably perceived by others as directly soliciting funds. (3) A judge may solicit membership for such an organization or entity, even though the membership dues or fees generated may be used to support the objectives of the organization or entity, but only if the organization or entity is concerned with the law, the legal system, or the administration of justice. (4) A judge may appear or speak at, receive an award or other recognition at, be featured on the program of, and permit his or her title to be used in connection with an event of such an organization or entity, but if the event serves a fund-raising purpose, the judge may participate only if the event concerns the law, the legal system, or the administration of justice. (5) A judge may make recommendations to such a public or private fund-granting organization or entity in connection with its projects and activities, but only if the organization or entity is concerned with the law, the legal system, or the administration of justice. (6) A judge may serve as an officer, director, trustee, or nonlegal advisor of such an organization or entity, or a governmental entity, unless it is likely that the organization or entity 24 (a) Will be engaged in proceedings that would ordinarily come before the judge; or (b) Will be engaged in adversary proceedings in the court of which the judge is a member, or in any court subject to the appellate jurisdiction of the court of which the judge is a member. (7) A judge may speak, lecture, teach, write, and participate in other extrajudicial activities concerning the law, the legal system, the administration of justice, and nonlegal subjects, subject to the requirements of this Code. (B) A judge may encourage lawyers to provide pro bono publico legal services. (C) A judge’s donation to a not-for-profit organization that accepts donations for the purpose of distributing the money collected, after the payment of expenses, to not-for-profit entities providing legal services to low income or elderly persons does not disqualify the judge from presiding over matters in which legal services are provided by those entities.