Obed-Judges is a discussion list comprised of provisional and approved judges of the regular obedience classes. This list is not for those with only non-regular or match judging experience. Tracking judges or judges of any other performance events will not be accepted unless they also meet the above requirements for obedience trial judges. 

Obed-Judges started in 1996 on the OU-Trumpkin Server and migrated from the OU-Tumnus Server in July, 2004.  It was again migrated to groups.io in February of 2018.

The archive capability of OBED-JUDGES has been disabled to encourage more open discussion.

TO APPLY - If you have not already done so, please copy and paste the following questionnaire into an email message. Then email the completed questionnaire to Obed-Judges+owner@groups.io.

1. Please give your Real Full Name:

2. Please give your City & State:

3. For each registry in which you are a provisional or approved judge, please give the following:

a. the registry:
b. your unique identification number for that registry:
c. the regular classes for which you are provisional and/or approved:
d. the length of time you have been provisional and/or approved:

4. Are you a registry official (i.e. do you serve in any way in an
administrative capacity for a dog registry)? One test of this can be
are you in a position of influencing, recommending or awarding
approval to persons seeking judging status for the associated
registry?

5. Email experience. The following questions relate specifically to email knowledge and skills:

a. How long have you been online?
b. How often do you check your email?
c. Are you aware of the volume of mail that can be generated by an email list?
d. Can you comfortably do all of the following (answer yes/no):

1. Read your email on a regular basis?
2. Reply to email?
3. Change the "To:" line on your email to redirect it to anyone you want?
4. Edit the body of an email message to cut out unneeded material?

Thank you