The Judicial Innovation Fellowship (JIF) is a fellowship for technology industry professionals to transform justice across state, local, territorial, and tribal courts. Partnering with courts to build critical data infrastructure, simplify processes, and improve usability of court services, this competitive fellowship is a unique opportunity to innovate a core democratic institution.

The Judicial Innovation Fellowship is incubated at the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy. This work is made possible by the State Justice Institute, the New Venture Fund, Schmidt Futures, the Ford Foundation, the Utah Bar Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Fritz Family Foundation.

The inaugural cohort took place from 2023-2024. This successful pilot is commemorated in the JIF Final Report and the Judicial Innovation Fellowship Webinar video, which was recorded in January 2025.

To read about how the program was built, please read the JIF Roadmap.