NCRA Celebrates 125 Years

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The National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) has been internationally recognized for promoting excellence among those who capture and convert the spoken word to text for 125 years. NCRA is committed to supporting its more than 12,000 members in achieving the highest level of professional expertise with educational opportunities and industry-recognized court reporting, educator, and videographer certification programs.

Message from the immediate past President

NCRA celebrating 125 wonderful years of existence is a true testament to the important role stenographic court reporters play in the judicial and captioning venues where capturing the spoken word is a vital skill that involves dexterity and precision.
NCRA Immediate Past President Kristin M. Anderson, M.A., RPR, FCRR

Kristin-Anderson Celebrating a 125th, our quasquicentennial, anniversary is a monumental mark in history. NCRA celebrating 125 wonderful years of existence is a true testament to the important role stenographic court reporters play in the judicial and captioning venues where capturing the spoken word is a vital skill that involves dexterity and precision.

It also reflects the expansion and growth of the profession from yesterday’s pen writers to the skills of today’s realtime writers who stream text instantaneously in the legal setting and who provide communication access of the spoken word to those in the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.

Our history

Certainly by 1893, when the World's Congress of Stenographers met in Chicago, a national organization of shorthand reporters was foremost on the attendees' minds. Buford Duke took the next important step by organizing Stenographers Day at the Centennial Celebration in Nashville in 1897. It was there that the Committee of Organization was formed specifically to arrange the first meeting of the new association. Chairing the committee was Kendrick Hill, a reporter active with the New York state association, who spent the next two years working with reporters all over the country to make the dream of a national association come true.
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41st Annual Convention - 1940