There's also Indiana, where the two - year - long battle between reformers on the state's board of education and Supt. Glenda Ritz will likely come to a head with efforts in the state legislature to make the latter's job a
gubernatorial appointment as well as Gov. Mike Pence's plan to clarify state law by
allowing the body to appoint its own chair instead of having Ritz at its helm.
One such trend that was popular several years ago was an effort to expand
gubernatorial authority over the process, by
allowing the governor to choose more members of the judicial nominating commission and giving the governor more nominees from which to make
appointments.