Happy Friday - Englishman: I love your craftsmanship with words ...
"disfellowshippee elect"
Only Englishman could get by with such subtle statements and keep a striaght face.
Now for the "meat" of your comment:
"Now, it was around this time that I baled out of the JW’s, so I am not aware of how this situation progressed to the JC process that is now in force, so I would very much appreciate some input that would help me to link all this together."
Before the Elder arrangement, the Congregation Servant was considered the only "Elder" and he heardf all problems and then determined is a JC was necessary. The Asst. Cong Servant and Bible Study Servant was technically equivalent to Ministerial Servants ... except they were sort of the cream of the Ministerial Servants and thought of as "Elder-Elect". In the case of the demise of the Congregation Servant, one of these two men would likely be selected to take over. As you said, these formed the Congregation Committee and they aslo formed the Judicial Committee.
The Congregation Committee were the three most responsible for all congregations functions and contact with the Society. But since these were permanent positions then the same men also made up the Judicial Committee. The difference is that these men were a 'not-so-equal' triune body, because the Congregation Servant could veto any decision to DF. He was the Boss. So it the other two on the JC turned out to be inane idiots, he could stop the damage. The flip side is if the Congregation Servat was the idiot, then the other two were helpless to stop him.
When the Elder arrangement was instituted in 1971 and fully implimented by the fall of 1972 ... the JC had been expanded to allow any Elder to sit on a JC. While the JC still comprised a Trinity, there was a difference. The Congregation Committee was no longer the sole members of the JC. The Congregation Committee rotated at first as did all positions, and then eventually became permanent.
However because now any Elder could sit on a JC, then their Triune nature was now co-equal. The difference is that it takes a unanimous vote to DF. If "any" Elder did not want to DF, then the action could not take place. And there were times that a single Elder deadlocked the JC, and so the "Disfellowshipee-Elect" was sumarily Reproved as the only viable Otpion.
The JC essentially has never changed except for the Society allowing all Elders to take part and equalizing the Triune nature of this body. Talking and confessing sins to a lone Elder has always been exhorted encouraged, and promoted by the Society. An ELder can always give counsel and the matter get be dropped, even to this day.
However, the "fine Print" in the contract - you know, the part that takes a Microscope to see it clearly ... is that the Society has expanded the reasons for getting DF'd. before I left the Society was already "gently manipulating masturbators" from the 'secret fault' category into the 'loose conduct department. When I first joined the JWs in the late 60s, there were fewer offenses to get DF'd for ...
... but today, the list has grown - not entirely by written directive from Brooklyn ... but because they changed something else very important in their procedures that more and more Elders caught onto. Prior to the Elder Buds coming to power, the old JC under the Congregation Servant was run by LAW ... that it, you could either be DF'd for an act or you could not be. It was merely a question of repentance. If you didn't do the crime, you didn't do the time ... then
As the Elder Arrangement evolved ... the Society kept their "Pharisaical" mentality ... but moved from LAW to PRINCIPLE. So, now, if a "Disfellowshipee-Elect" did not technically "Do the Crime" but they had a bad attitude ... then the Elders cuold give them the Ax anyway.
Example: By the way, I got into a big spitting match on H20 with a poster named "Friend". He strongly disputed this could happen. But, not only did it happen, the Circuit Overseers were coaching the Elders in this direction.
Here it is: In one of my Justice Posts I spoke of a siser who was DF'd for a lack of love. There is no official offense titled "lack of Love' for which one can be DF'd ... but the consistent "Bad Attitude" sister lacking-love exhibited toward many JWs violated a high moral principle ... love among God's People ... and she was marked, reporved, and then DF'd.
At the same time the Society expanded the LAW in perfect fashion ... from just nice clean clear sins like drunkenness, adultery, and stealing to include refinements in how two people touch each other in the secret spots ... to injesting anything that they do not approve ... so booze was not the only substance that could make one liable for DF'ing ... there was Marijuana, then smoking, then chewing, then inhaling glue fumes ... Then there was not just stealing, but business affairs that were questionable - often better handled by lawyers, but no the Elders now became the Arbitration Committee ... and if the Detainees did not cooperate their "Bad Attitude" could lead to them being DF'd ...then there was Sky-Diving ... considerred to be undue risk to life and as such constituted "Potential" murder ... and included with this was hang gliding ... and the list has grown from there.
Disfellowshipping has become an obsession with the Society. I think that Ray Franz characterized this well in Crisis of Conscience. Once the Governing Body was formed, and the office of President and Vice President were made void of any real power, then the new Bosses needed something to govern ... they even complained that they needed to get governing ... and govern they did ... they sit around most of the time figuring out what else people need to be DF'd for.
Hey! Now you are an outie, you can dance too!