Sentences with phrase «years as an appellate judge»

Marianne Short Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer UnitedHealth Group September 15, 2017 Marianne Short, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at UnitedHealth Group, discusses UnitedHealth Group's pro bono efforts and the role providing pro bono legal services played in her own career, including 12 years as an appellate judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

The man Kagan hopes to replace, Justice John Paul Stevens, had served five years as an appellate judge before his 1975 promotion to the Supreme Court.

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HJR 1 as filed limits appellate judges (Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal) to 12 consecutive years in office and prohibits them from being reappointed for 1 year after leaving office.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, and accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against conviction dismissed — Although trial judge did not address analytical steps in order, he properly analyzed evidence and concluded that injuries sustained by victim were not accidental and could not have occurred in any other fashion than as stated by victim — Having provided reasons for accepting victim's evidence, trial judge was entitled to reject accused's evidence — Trial judge's reasoning, though skeletal, permitted accused and appellate court to determine how and why finding resulted.

This marks the second effort in the last several years to have intermediate appellate court judges sit as trial judges; Michigan made a similar move in 2013 when it made specially designated judges of that state's Court of Appeals into the state's Court of Claims.

• Retired appellate judges who want to go back to law practice will have to wait three years before they can represent a client at the court on which they served as a judge.

Before joining Houser, he clerked for an appellate Massachusetts judge and then worked for several years at an international law firm in Boston, Massachusetts and Irvine, California as a litigation associate.

He volunteers annually as a judge for the Marshall - Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, which includes an appellate advocacy competition for high school students, and as a judge at Drexel University Thomas E. Kline School of Law for first - year oral arguments in Legal Methods.

«At 25 Years and 26 Days, Chief Justice Hecht Marks History as Longest - Serving Justice»: The Supreme Court of Texas today issued a news release that begins, «Texas» longest - serving appellate judge, Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht, celebrates a new milestone Sunday: longest - serving justice in state Supreme Court history.»

His judicial experience included serving as a Supervising Judge of the family law panel for 3 years, Presiding Judge of the court's appellate division, and a special master for the Commission on Judicial Performance.

I came to the position with experience as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge, thirteen years of practice (including service as a special counsel appointed to prosecute the impeachment of Nebraska's Attorney General), and then five years as a United States Magistrate Jjudge, thirteen years of practice (including service as a special counsel appointed to prosecute the impeachment of Nebraska's Attorney General), and then five years as a United States Magistrate JudgeJudge.

All associates in the group have spent at least a year as law clerks for an appellate judge, with over half previously clerking for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Perhaps that thought lingers in the recesses of their minds, but decisions of appellate courts of this province in recent years have supported such efforts by trial and motion court judges, as long as the creative solutions are fair.