The Judicial Inquiry Commission has considered your request for an opinion concerning
whether any potential breach of the Canons of Ethics exists in your presiding over a
case involving a negligence action against a certain hospital. It appears that you sat on
the Board of Directors of the Hospital from May 1969 until May 1975. You state that in
your best judgment the lawsuit will not involve any hospital policy set while you were a
member of the Board of Directors.