Because voters rely on judicial performance evaluations when casting their ballots, policymakers should work diligently to compile valid, reliable, and unbiased information about our sitting judges. Although some claim that judicial performance evaluations are fair, the systematic research needed to establish such a proposition has not been done. By the use of attorney judicial performance survey data from Clark County, Nevada, this analysis shows that objective measures of judicial performance cannot explain away differences in scores based on race and sex. Minority judges and female judges score consistently and significantly lower than do their white and male counterparts, all other things being equal. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that judicial performance evaluation surveys may carry with them unexamined and unconscious gender/race biases. Future research must compare judicial performance evaluation structure, content, and execution across states in order to identify those evaluation mechanisms least susceptible to unconscious gender and race bias.

This netnography‐based inquiry of the #MeToo movement on Twitter recognizes the relationships between organizations and individuals in varying levels of power and how social media can mitigate power dynamics in reporting systems for sexual harassment and assault. We study both academia and corporations as cultural institutions within which sexual harassment survivors are historically disenfranchised and convinced not to voice their stories. Distinct elements of these structures create differences in how vulnerable individuals face persecution. This paper explores the relationships between university and corporate contexts within the ecological framework of harassment. Our multidisciplinary study contributes to existing literature by extracting two samples of tweets (n = 1248 university and n = 1290 corporate) with three different unguided analytic tools to explore their semantic meaning, valence and emotionality, and overall sentiment. Drawing from our findings and literature review, we discuss the history of #MeToo as an amplification tool; Twitter as a social movement mechanism; and the roles of power, retaliation, and risk across institutions in relation to survivors of sexual violence and harassment.

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