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Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
John P. Slough. John P. Slough was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to serve as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court.In 1867 William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Territorial Legislative Council, took part in a campaign to denigrate the judge, and authored a resolution in the legislature to have the judge removed, leading Slough to slander Rynerson publicly.
Joseph Albert Wapner (November 15, 1919 – February 26, 2017) was an American judge and television personality. He is best known as the first presiding judge of the reality court show The People's Court. The show's first run in syndication, with Judge Wapner presiding as judge, continued from 1981 to 1993, for 12 seasons and 2,484 episodes ...
Bazelon served as Chief Judge from October 9, 1962 to March 27, 1978. [9] [10] He was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1963 to 1977. [1] He assumed senior status on June 30, 1979. [1] He was the last appeals court judge remaining in active service appointed by President Truman.
David Louis Bunning (born July 14, 1966) [1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Bunning is the son of former Republican Senator Jim Bunning , a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher who represented Kentucky in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2011.
Larry Hicks, a federal judge in Nevada for more than 20 years who presided over cases ranging from U.S. environmental disputes to political corruption trials, died after being struck by a vehicle ...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott shakes hands with newly appointed Eighth Division Business Court Justice Brian Stanger following his official swearing in ceremony at the Texas A&M Law School in ...
In 1988, he served as a law clerk to Judge Edward F. Harrington of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. [5] He then served as an assistant district attorney in Essex County. In 1991, he became deputy legal counsel to Governor Bill Weld. [5] In 1993, helped draft the governor’s first anti-crime legislative package.