The Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel was established in February of 1998 by SCAD No. 1998-1 pursuant to the administrative authority vested in the Supreme Court by Article 7, Section 6 of the Oklahoma Constitution and the rule making authority of the Supreme Court as provided in Title 20 O.S. § 24. The Rules for the three-member advisory panel were found at 5 O.S. Supp. 1998, ch.1, App. 4, Application of the Code of Judicial Conduct (G). In June of 2015, the Panel was restructured by SCAD No. 2015-54. The modifications to the Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel were promulgated to increase the number of active members to 5, to memorialize the work and duties of the panel after the adoption of the new Code of Judicial Conduct effective April 15, 2011, and to ratify and affirm the authority of the advisory panel to issue advisory opinions from 1998 to the present. The rules adopted here are intended to establish a readily available published reference to preserve the work of this important body.