Sentences with phrase «woman judge appointed»

First Woman Judge Appointed By Palestine Court Tells Her Story In TIFF Premiere «The Judge» — Watch

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For example, if women aren't meant to have authority, why was Deborah appointed by God (Judges 4)?

Neither Muhammad nor the Rightly Guided Caliphs appointed a woman in a governing or judging post.

Justice Sheila Abdus - Salaam, the first black woman appointed to New York State's highest court, and the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge, was found dead in the Hudson River off Manhattan yesterday afternoon, authorities said.

RIP Sandra Townes, a former English teacher at Corocoran High School who went on to become the first black woman appointed as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.

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QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following about former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the State's first female Chief Judge and first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals: «Judge Kaye was a trailblazer in her own right and a fearless pioneer for justice.

Cuomo has already appointed three women to the court, one is an Hispanic and one is the court's first African - American and Muslim judge.

The first black woman appointed to New York State's highest court, and the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge, was found dead in the Hudson River off Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

He appointed the first woman judge, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African American judge on the cjudge, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African American judge on the cJudge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African American judge on the cjudge on the court.

Keeping a campaign promise to name a woman, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, soon after taking office in 1983, appointed Ms. Kaye, a fellow Democrat and then a commercial litigator, as an associate judge of the Court of Appeals.

That is because O'Malley has appointed some new judges to the Court of Appeals since it last affirmed Maryland's current law, which limits marriage to a man and a woman, Gansler said.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

The competition will be judged by the editor of Womens Health and Fitness Magazine or a representative appointed by the Promoter.

Documentary on Palestinian Judge Kholoud Al - Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East.

Our monthly VFF @ Violet Crown series continues with Ericka Cohn's documentary which follows the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East's religious courts.

In that case, a Clinton appointed federal judge, whose appointment was approved by Biden's Judiciary Committee, ruled that a disabled 45 - year - old woman whose entire income is $ 10,000 per year in Social Security did not meet the «undue hardship» test for discharging her student loans.

Indeed, the most recent round of federal appointments of judges across the country included 9 new appointments, of which 3 were women, and in Manitoba, only 1 woman has been appointed out of 6 judicial appointments made in 2013.

In the past, it has been argued that the number of female federally appointed judges (32 % in total) has been similar to the percentage of women in the legal profession.

The Globe and Mail reported recently (November 12, 2011) that only 30 % of judges appointed by the Conservative government since 2006 have been women.

By June 21, 1991, 27 judges had been appointed to the Court since the previous October — 16 were women.»

If we were appointing 10 judges, five would be women.

One woman «was in jail eleven months before a lawyer was appointed,» while another person «spent thirteen months in jail without seeing a lawyer or a judge.»

A year and a half after taking office, the government has appointed 56 judges, of whom 33 are women — 59 per cent.

General Darpino is the 39th Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army and the first woman to hold that position since the first Judge Advocate General was appointed by George Washington in 1775.

For the district judge (magistrates» court) competition, women accounted for 19 % of the eligible pool, 40 % of applications, and 47 % of those appointed.

She was the first woman appointed to lead the provincial court when she became chief judge in May 2006.

In addition of having been one of my teachers in law school, she is also the first appointed black woman judge in the history of Quebec.

«I am proud to say that women judges currently represent approximately 34 per cent of the complement of federally appointed judges and I am personally committed to seeing this number increase,» he wrote.

Recently retired, Judge Ann Claire Williams has also shared her story as the first African American woman appointed to the district court in Illinois and in the Seventh Circuit.

Hosting up to 30 non-permanent rotating judges, McLachlin will be the first Canadian to sit on the court and will be amongst the first women appointed.