The Judicial Inquiry Commission has considered your request for an opinion of the
Commission concerning the following matters:

1) Whether office stationery and postage may be used to send letters of thanks to jury
veniremen where such letters are signed by all of the circuit judges in a circuit
regardless of whether all of the circuit judges participated in the organization of the
court before those veniremen or in the trial of cases before them?

2) Whether a circuit judge serving as president of a local chapter of the National
Alumni Association of a State University may make a written solicitation of membership
to the local and national alumni associations in his letters announcing the Annual
Alumni Banquet?