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Recommending Supreme Court justices: How nominating commission voted

Read ArticleHere is how the Supreme Court Nominating Commission voted on the three candidates recommended to Gov. Laura Kelly to appoint to the Kansas Supreme Court. The ballots we...

Screening panel recommends three district judges for Supreme Court

Read ArticleA panel that screens candidates for the Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday recommended three district court judges to Gov. Laura Kelly to pick for a seat on the state's h...

Kansas commission picks three district judges as finalists for opening on state Supreme Court

The state's independent, nonpartisan commission selects three district court judges as nominees for the Kansas Supreme Court.

Illinois Supreme Court Seeks Applicants for Illinois State Public Defender Commission

The Illinois Supreme Court invites applications from individuals interested in serving as an appointed member of the Illinois State Public Defender Commission (Commission). The Com...

Seven seek seat on Kansas Supreme Court; A look at who’s who

Read ArticleSeven candidates have applied to replace Martha Luckert on the Kansas Supreme Court in what might be the last time that the Supreme Court Nominating Commission gets to...

Federal judicial nominees advance to full Senate

Read ArticleThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced three nominees for the federal bench in Kansas to the full Senate for consideration. A split committee signed off on...

Kansas gov. has 60 days to approve new Supreme Court justice

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Three people are in the running for a vacant spot on the Kansas Supreme Court this year. The Supreme Court Nominating Commission announced on May 21 that it has vot...

Former CJ Prof Juma, Mufti praise election-related probe commission

Prof Juma noted that the commission comprises highly qualified experts from diverse fields, highlighting its chairperson, Othman Chande, as a figure with extensive international ex...

William Auther: Aiming to retain high performing judges

William Auther, a product liability attorney by trade, did not plan for a near-decade and a half run on the Commission for Judicial Performance Review. But when an open spot […] Th...

Two Kansas nominees for U.S. District Court answer questions about ties to Marion newspaper raid

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee puts through the confirmation process three Kansans nominated by President Donald Trump to become federal judges.

Kansas candidates for federal judge positions answer questions Wednesday

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Three candidates for new federal judge positions in Kansas appeared before a committee Wednesday in Washington D.C. to answer questions from lawmakers. The U.S. Sen...

JSC Nominates 37 New Judges Including Belinda Akello

The names have been remitted to the President, who is expected to appoint them or reject them with recommendations to the JSC before they are sworn in to address the backlog of cas...

¿Quiénes son las figuras clave en la activación del mecanismo de postulaciones al TSJ?

La creación de esta comisión marca el inicio del proceso para establecer el Comité de Postulaciones Judiciales, un órgano mixto que se encargará de evaluar y preseleccionar a los c...

JSC Nominates New Supreme Court Judge

The new nominee will take office, which was left vacant last year following the death of Justice Mohamed Khadhar Ibrahim.

April Carney among new appointees to FSCJ Board of Trustees

4 new members and 4 reappointments were announced Thursday. The post April Carney among new appointees to FSCJ Board of Trustees appeared first on Florida Politics - Campaigns &amp...

Advierten que designaciones de Larry Devoe y Eglée González tienen vicio de origen

Acceso a la Justicia subraya que la evaluación de las postulaciones las asumió la Asamblea Nacional a través de un comité integrado en su mayoría por diputados afines al chavismo,...

Senators quiz federal bench nominees about newspaper raid, tobacco settlement

Read ArticleU.S. Senators on Wednesday probed and prodded three nominees for the federal bench in Kansas, asking them about a range of topics including their judicial philosophy, t...

Lawyers Alicia Carothers, Bo Hardee, Shelby Senn, Brian Toti appointed to judgeships

Two of the four appointees are Assistant State Attorneys in the 5th Judicial Circuit. The post Lawyers Alicia Carothers, Bo Hardee, Shelby Senn, Brian Toti appointed to judgeships...

Comenzaron las postulaciones para el comité que evaluará a aspirantes a magistrados del TSJ

La Comisión Preliminar abrió la convocatoria dirigida a sectores de la sociedad para presentar candidaturas, con base en lo establecido en la Constitución y la Ley Orgánica del Tri...

Judicial elections: How candidates for governor might carry them out if passed by voters

Read ArticleWhen voters go to the polls this summer, they will decide whether Kansas voters should elect justices to the state Supreme Court. But there are some details they won't...

Senate panel narrowly advances Hawaii chief justice nomination

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Friday to confirm the nomination of Associate Justice Vladimir Devens as Hawaii’s next chief justice, sending its recommendation to the full Se...

Wisconsin Supreme Court: Judge M. Joseph Donald appointed chief judge of Court of Appeals; Judge Rachel Graham named dep...

MADISON, Wis. (April 28, 2026) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has appointed District One Court of Appeals Judge M. Joseph Donald as chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, ef...

New Judges Appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice

Senate panel narrowly advances Hawaii chief justice nomination

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Friday to confirm the nomination of Associate Justice Vladimir Devens as Hawaii’s next chief justice, sending its recommendation to the full Se...