Sentences with phrase «court nominating commission»

Additionally, there is a Supreme Court Nominating Commission, responsible for nominating appointees for the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court.

On Friday, December 27, 2013, Governor Hickenlooper announced appointments to 14 of Colorado's judicial nominating commissions, including the Supreme Court Nominating Commission.

The Supreme Court Nominating Commission selects applicants for nomination to the Colorado Supreme Court and Colorado Court of Appeals.

He was an elected member of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission for two consecutive terms, having been elected by mail ballot of the lawyers in the Second Congressional District.

HCR 5013 (Constitutional Amendment) Changes Supreme Court nominating commission membership: 4 members chosen by election of bar members (one per congressional district); 5 members chosen by governor (one per congressional district + 1 statewide to serve as chair); 6 members chosen by legislature (2 House Speaker; 1 House Minority Leader; 2 Senate President; 1 Senate Minority Leader).

SB 197 Applies the open meetings act to the supreme court nominating commission and judicial district nominating commissions.

SB 141 Requires the Justice Court Nominating Commission to submit three names to the appointing authority.

An Appellate Court Nominating Commission would be created made up of 13 members (8 bar members, 5 non-bar members)

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Of these, four are selected by the majority and minority leaders of each chamber of the state legislature from a list of 25 candidates nominated by the state commission on appellate court appointments.

Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore, a former chair of the now defunct state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, seen here on May 31, 2012, has been nominated to head the New York State court system.

The judicial nominating commission has approved seven names for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to select from to replace the late Sheila Abdus - Salaam on the Court of Appeals.

Does nt Happen» According to California's constitution, judges of the supreme court and courts of appeal are nominated by the governor and must be confirmed by the commission on judicial appointments, which consists of the chief justice, the attorney general, and a presiding justice of the courts of appeal.»

Nominated by the Judicial Nominating Commission for service on Florida's Third District Court of Appeal, 2002

Judges of the state Supreme Court and the three - district Court of Appeals are now appointed by the governor from slates of finalists forwarded by special nominating commissions.

The percentage of diverse judicial nominating commission members should approximate the percentage of diverse people interacting with a state's civil and criminal courts.

A proposal in Kansas to give the state's governor a longer list of names to select from in picking trial court judges via the state's merit / commission system was amended on the House floor yesterday to require all applicants for district court judgeships be released and male almost all nominating commission proceedings public.

Hawaii: The state's Governor (or Chief Justice for District Court) is responsible for appointment for a judge's initial term from a list prepared by the state's Judicial Nominating Commission.

It moves Supreme Court races to a merit selection system, but places much more power over the 15 member Judicial Nominating Commission in the legislature

The Third District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission has been asked to provide Governor Rick Scott with nominees for the vacancy in the Third District Court of Appeal resulting from the resignation of Judge Frank Shepherd.

THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION ANNOUNCES THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL JUDGESHIP VACANCY AND ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR

SB 489 Provides that a Supreme, Appellate or Circuit Court judge who is appointed shall be disqualified from hearing a case when an attorney or a party to the case being heard served on the Appellate or one of the Circuit Judicial Commissions that nominated the judge.

In a 5 - 0 ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a law that required the state's judicial nominating commission to send the names of five candidates to the governor for possible appointment.

Oklahoma Speaker puts forth judicial agenda: keep merit selection but change nominating commission, term limits but only for Court of Civil Appeals, mandatory retirement age for all appellate judges, several «placeholder» bills

(A 1977 House resolution proposing a nominating commission for circuit court judges technically would be superseded by the recommendation that delegates will consider in New York.)

Currently the nominating commissions for the state's appellate courts and select Circuit Courts must send «three persons» to the govcourts and select Circuit Courts must send «three persons» to the govCourts must send «three persons» to the governor.

Last year, the Kansas legislature adopted a similar process by statute for court of appeals judges, eliminating the nominating commission and giving the governor full discretion in choosing these judges, with senate sign - off.

This report details the judicial nominating commissions used to select supreme court justices in 30 states and the District of Columbia.

The court concluded that the nominating commission did not exercise general governmental functions, and that the appointment power resided solely with the governor.

When there is a vacancy on the Court today, this system means that the Governor chooses the next Justice from a list of between three and six qualified persons recommended by the Judicial Nominating Commission.

The court also concluded that the «special limited purpose» of the nominating commission - selecting the most qualified candidates for judicial appointments for the governor's consideration - disproportionately impacts a definable group of constituents - the members of the Iowa bar - over other voters in the state.

She also served as a commissioner of the Fourth District Court Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission, is on the editorial advisory board of the American Academy of Medical Entrepreneurs, and previously chaired a Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee.

In May, Rubio appointed him statewide chair of the commission, which in addition to the Southern District, oversees the nominating processes in Florida's Middle and Northern federal court districts.

Rhode Island: bill to mandate diversity in state courts re-introduced; requires at least 3 persons of color on Judicial Nominating Commission

John has held numerous leadership positions in the Sarasota community and The Florida Bar, having served as past director and president of The Florida Bar Foundation, former President of the Sarasota County Bar Association and three years on the Second District Court of Appeal Nominating Commission.

The state's constitution as amended in 1972 provides for a judicial nominating commission for the supreme court, district courts and any other courts the legislature decides.

FRANKFORT, Ky., June 25, 2014 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant District Court judgeship for Anderson, Shelby and Spencer counties.

The state's constitution provides the judicial nominating commission must submit «a list of three nominees» to the governor for vacancies on the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.

In 1994 the state's constitution was amended to provide vacancies in the Supreme Court were to be filled from a list provided by a judicial nominating commission to be established by the legislature and confirmed by the House and Senate.

The judicial nominating commission is the key to commission - based appointment, or «merit selection,» of state court judges.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant Warren County Family Court judgeship.

FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 25, 2012 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., met today in Burkesville, Ky., to choose three nominees to fill the vacant Circuit Court judgeship in the 40th Judicial Circuit.

If you have an interest in becoming one of Kentucky's seven Supreme Court Justices, you should submit your name to the Judicial Nominating Commission.

A judicial nominating commission selected four lawyers Monday as finalists to fill the vacancy on the Nebraska Supreme Court created by the sudden resignation of Judge Max Kelch.

A commission nominates three candidates for an appellate court vacancy, and the Governor must then select one of those candidates for the position.

From 1996 to 2004, he was a director of MassHousing (Massachusetts» low income housing finance agency); from 2005 until 2010 he served on the Governor's Judicial Nominating Commission; and he was recently appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court Business Litigation Session Advisory Committee.

On Wednesday, June 16, 2016, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced that the Twenty - First Judicial District Nominating Commission selected three finalists for a vacancy on the District Court, occasioned by the retirement of Hon. David A. Bottger, effective August 12, 2016.