Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial appointment of»

IAALS Online recently summarized anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, and a recent article in the ABA Journal honed in on a common trend in a handful of these states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

There are several anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, particularly in states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

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Prior to her gubernatorial appointment, Ms. Stern was Chairman of the Board of UJA - Federation of New York and President and Chairman of National Women's Philanthropy of United Jewish Communities.

Mario Cuomo had his eye on H. Carl McCall as Regan's successor, seeing the appointment of New York's first African - American comptroller as a path to help secure minority votes in the coming gubernatorial race.

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Criteria will be established by advisory committee consisting of 9 (4 from NYSIA, 1 Senate appointment, 1 Assembly appointment, 2 gubernatorial appointments.)

Before the mid-1800s, nearly all states admitted to the Union selected their judges by this method of gubernatorial appointment with legislative confirmation as well, though some opted to select judges by legislative vote alone.

ALBANY — After a report last week that gubernatorial aides were involving themselves with a supposedly independent anti-corruption panel, a major good - government group has written a letter voicing concern that such interference would be «a shocking waste of the momentum for meaningful change which its appointment created.»

Republican gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco in a statement Wednesday called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to review why Gov. Andrew Cuomo's then - campaign chief was working out of the governor's office in New York City.

«The controversies surrounding some of the recent gubernatorial appointments to vacant Senate seats make it painfully clear that such appointments are an anachronism that must end,» he said in a press release.

In the past, she has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (Gubernatorial appointment), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the advisory councils for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, the Biology Directorate of the NSF, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2012 «This gubernatorial concern about board appointments is a significant departure from an era when there was more deference to institutions about who they wanted on boards, said Richard Chait, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education who studies university governance.»

Mary was a gubernatorial appointment to the Executive Board of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership and co-chaired the School Policies and Standards Sub-Committee for six years.

In addition to his charter schools leadership, Mr. Goenner received gubernatorial appointments from John Engler and Jennifer Granholm to serve on the Board of the Michigan Higher Education Facility Authority.

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.

In 2003, Lee was elected to the position of Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education and as a gubernatorial appointment (2005 - 2009) to the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Ms. Gray an economics and business graduate of Hendrix College, received a gubernatorial appointment to the Arkansas State Board of Higher Education in 1989, and later joined the Hendrix Board of Trustees.

The merit selection method is vague, stating only that «Each Judge of the Supreme Court shall be selected via merit - based gubernatorial appointment and shall be legislatively confirmed.»

Each Judge of the Supreme Court shall be selected via merit - based gubernatorial appointment and shall be legislatively confirmed.

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.

He received a 2015 gubernatorial appointment to serve on the Missouri State University Board of Governors.

In Tennessee, such a proposal is already slated for the November ballot, calling for pure gubernatorial appointment and legislative confirmation of judges.

The proposal would establish a federal selection process for appellate judges — gubernatorial appointment with confirmation by both houses of the legislature (the «plus»).

Approximately 90 percent of Minnesota judges are already selected through a commission - based gubernatorial appointment process — authorized by statute — to fill vacancies that arise between elections, and judicial elections are rarely contested.

At the Supreme Court level, nine states used the gubernatorial appointment process with some form of confirmation of candidates by the legislature or another elected body, according to the Brennan Center.

A third proposal (HB 2150 of 2007) would have replaced nonpartisan elections with gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.