Sentences with phrase «merit selection»
"Merit selection" refers to a process where individuals are chosen for a position or opportunity based on their qualifications, abilities, and achievements, rather than favoritism or arbitrary factors. It focuses on selecting the most deserving or competent person for a specific role. Full definition
The third altered numerous provisions related to the state's merit selection system.
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Other types of merit selection involve gubernatorial appointment or legislative appointment.
None of the judges interviewed said they had enough information to take a stance on merit selection.
The biggest concern expressed by judges at the meeting was what merit selection would mean for racial diversity on the bench.
So, as you can see, the selection processes will provide a hybrid of merit selection, ethical conduct requirements and election processes.
The nominating commission has long been described as the key to the judicial merit selection process, and we hope that its supporters in the thirty - three states that use nominating commissions will work to preserve their crucial role.
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O'Connor Advisory Committee member Sandy D'Alemberte served in the Florida legislature in the late 1960s and early 1970s and helped to craft the legislation that established the state's judicial merit selection process.
Judges and magistrates in Vermont's Supreme and Superior Courts are all appointed initially via merit selection with senate confirmation.
Member, Federal Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, appointed by Chief U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore for term December 23, 2016 through May 1, 2017
Pennsylvania: Hearing on merit selection plan set for today, membership of nominating commission unclear UPDATE: Vote delayed
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, has monitored judicial elections and other state court issues for almost two decades and published an extensive report last year about merit selection.
In 2005, Hawaii had the first Republican governor since statehood with the power to appoint judges via merit selection, a legislature made up of a supermajority of Democrats (41 to 10 in the House, 20 to 5 in the Senate), and several members of the state's courts up against the mandatory retirement age of 70.
Efforts to end merit selection for the Supreme Court, which requires a constitutional amendment, cleared the Senate but could not get the two - thirds majority in the House.
Or it could be through a process of merit selection presided over by a panel of eminent Indigenous peers; or
Contemporary judicial selection concerns include the controversy over merit selection of judges vs. the election of judges, the need for judicial election reform, and the effect of the method of judicial selection on the number of minorities and women seated on the bench.
HB 1266 would reconcile the two, putting county division judges into the existing merit selection system.
Arizona: plan calls for public financing of Superior Court races in counties not using merit selection system, however bill would eliminate public financing for all other races
We began with a detailed report on why states adopted merit selection in the first place, how the structure and operation of nominating commissions differ across the country, and what some of the best practices appear to be in building public trust in the process.
Currently Tennessee has a statutory - based merit selection system for the state's appellate courts.
I'm not sure why Taylor merited this selection, but given the club involved in the final, there were other options that would have taken away any but the kookiest claims of bias and impropriety.
Keynote Speaker, Luzerne County, Bench - Bar Conference, «Ethics — Merit Selection vs. Election of the Judiciary, 1997
Alaska: changes to Judicial Council / merit selection out of House Judiciary Committee; change to selection method of Council members also at play
Unlike merit selection systems in Missouri and elsewhere, Massachusetts governors can ignore or entirely disband their commissions at will.
Indiana legislature again tries to alter merit selection in one of only trial courts that have it
Arkansas: Supreme Court could get merit selection if all other judicial races go back to being partisan ones
Mr. Hueston previously served as a Central District of California Merit Selection Panel member to assist the U.S. District Court with the appointment and reappointment of magistrate judges.
In that state governors use a voluntary merit selection system; they are not bound by or to the names submitted by the Judicial Nominating Commission.
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 1994 amendment added merit selection, permitting the Governor to nominate only from those names submitted by an independent non-partisan judicial nominating commission.
SB 2420 (Constitutional Amendment) Retains merit selection of judges.
Minnesota is pushing forward with an effort to get a constitutional amendment on the 2014 ballot putting merit selection in place for all state judges.
Appointment to Merit Selection Committee by U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, for selection of U.S. Magistrate Judge
denied, 133 S. Ct. 312: The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court's decision that Iowa's merit selection program did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin called for merit selection earlier this summer, but other than that, the topic hasn't been publicly discussed much.
Some are uncomfortable about an «either - or» conversation pitting merit selection versus judicial redistricting, but also happy to finally be included in the conversation.
The nonprofit organization hired lobbyists Chuck Neely and Rick Zechini, both of Williams Mullen, earlier this month and Neely brought Berger's chief of staff Jim Blaine to a meeting of the group's board of governors last Friday to discuss merit selection.
Many states use a hybrid of various merit selection processes, according to the Brennan Center.
He is a past member of the Boston Bar Association Diversity Leadership Task Force, a past member of the US District Court Civil Justice Advisory Board, a past Chairman of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Merit Selection Panel and a past member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Working Group on Practicing with Professionalism.
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The successful 1976 version focused exclusively on merit selection with Senate confirmation for appellate courts only.
Melissa Price Kromm, Director of North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, has been following bills this session aimed at changing the judiciary and expressed concern about Berger's merit selection plan.
Chief Justice Lawton Nuss has spoken out against efforts to end Kansas» merit selection process for appellate judges and...
Where the public stands on merit selection and partisan judicial elections»
SB 2239 (Constitutional Amendment) Ends merit selection of judges.
The Judicial Merit Selection Commission report on Judge F.P. Segars - Andrews can be located here.