Women of the Courts Symposium: Judging, Personality, and Gender: Not just a Woman’s Issue

... IN the summer of 1998, The Judges' Journal published an article I wrote entitled Personality Type and Judicial Decision Making. ... There are sixteen different combinations of these four pairs of personality aspects, so that each person who takes the MBTI test ends up with a personality type comprised of four letters, one for each scale measured by the MBTI. ... I will not cover the fourth MBTI scale of judging/perception in detail because men and women judicial officers both score about 72 percent as judging preferences, and thus, there is no significant difference between men and women as measured by that scale. ... Based on my data on judges to whom I administered the MBTI, ENTJ (extroverted/intuitive/thinker/judger) is the type most commonly appearing among female judges; ISTJ (introverted/senser/thinker/judger) is the most commonly appearing male judge type. ... Contrary to those who would characterize gender bias strictly as a woman's issue or concern, I believe that it is a problem for us all - male and female. ...

Print Location John, W. Kennedy, Women of the Courts Symposium: Judging, Personality, and Gender: Not just a Woman's Issue, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 905 (2005).

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