These questions may seem inappropriate but they are not. In fact, this information is solicited from you in order to protect and preserve our constitutionally guaranteed right to a trial by a jury of our peers randomly selected from a fair cross-section of the community.

Federal law requires you, as a prospective juror, to indicate your race. Further, the law states, in part:

“No citizen [of the United States of America] shall be excluded from service as a grand or petit juror in the district courts of the United States . . . on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.”

In order to preserve the integrity of the jury selection process, the Court follows a system of checks and balances designed to reveal any systematic bias or discrimination. The Court needs your assistance in compiling this data, so please take the time to completely answer question 10.