Rhode Island: bill requiring Judicial
Nominating Commission name at least one person of color for every judicial vacancy stalls in committee
Rhode Island: bill requires Judicial
Nominating Commission name at least one person of color for every judicial vacancy
Not exact matches
After the close of nominations in any district, the Returning Officer must, as soon as practicable, forward to the Electoral
Commission at Wellington the
names of the constituency candidates who have been
nominated under section 143 and who have not withdrawn their nominations.
Subject to the concurrence of the Electoral
Commission, the Returning Officer shall not accept the nomination of any constituency candidate if the Returning Officer is not satisfied, by such evidence (if any) as the Returning Officer requires, that the
name under which the candidate is
nominated is --
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.
Moore was
commissioned to produce a work for Goslar, Germany after being
nominated for a prestigious art prize by the town; he selected this work, previously titled The Falling Warrior and changed its
name for the location in the Imperial Palace Garden.
Marna Tucker, a
name partner with Washington, D.C.'s Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell, was on the president's
nominating commission.
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.
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a bill calling for the state's judicial
nominating commissions to submit at least five
names for each judicial vacancy.
The chairperson [of the judicial
nominating commission] shall make the
name of each person whose nomination is accepted available to the public whenever the
commission stops accepting nominations for such appointment, but not less than 10 days prior to submitting the
names of nominees to the governor.
Attorney William T. Curran was one of six
named this week to the Wisconsin Federal
Nominating Commission.
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.
SB 141 Requires the Justice Court
Nominating Commission to submit three
names to the appointing authority.
Committees in Missouri and Iowa have approved two bills similar to ones moving forward in Oklahoma; one would require the
nominating commission to submit the
names of all qualified judicial applicants to the governor, and the other would reduce the number of bar - selected attorney members of the
commission.
Under R.I. Gen. Laws 8.16.1 - 6, any person whose
name was publicly submitted to the governor by the judicial
nominating commission for a judicial vacancy was deemed eligible for a subsequent nomination by the governor for a period of five years.
HB 6242 / SB 686 Makes any individual whose
name was publicly submitted to the governor by the judicial
nominating commission, eligible for subsequent nomination by the governor until June 30, 2012.
Florida: Plan to take power to
name some Judicial
Nominating Commissions seats from governor and give to legislative leaders advances
HB 8006 / SB 3080 Extends until 2015 law allowing any individual whose
name was publicly submitted to the governor by the judicial
nominating commission, eligible for subsequent nomination by the governor.
One particular aspect of judicial selection legislatures have had a keen interest has been the number of
names that advance through judicial
nominating commissions (JNCs).
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.