Q: How did Florida decide to use the merit
retention election system?
No state has such as reappoint + reconfirm +
retention election system, although the idea did meet with some support in Tennessee's Senate Judiciary Committee in 2012.
North Carolina:
retention election system advances out of Senate committee, but limited to Supreme Court
Not exact matches
Merit selection was eliminated by statute for the Court of Appeals and replaced with a quasi-federal
system in 2013 (governor picks, senate confirms,
retention election for additional terms).
SJR 2 would specifically put into the state constitution a quasi-federal
system: governor appoints, House and Senate approve, additional terms by
retention elections.
Arizona's constitution provides that judges for the Superior Court in counties with a population over 250,000 are selected via the state's merit / commission
system and subject to
retention elections.
Much of the effort in 2015 focused on either a) reducing the percentage of lawyer - appointed members of the nomination commissions and / or b) requiring judges appointed under such
systems receive super-majority support in subsequent yes / no
retention elections.