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In many counties in Kentucky, Magistrates are elected every four years to the County's Fiscal Court. [3] A Fiscal Court is led by an elected County Judge-Executive and is equivalent to a County Commission. A Kentucky County is separated into districts, and the citizens of each district elects a Magistrate to serve on this court.
Wier served as a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky before becoming a district judge, a position to which he was first appointed on September 1, 2006, and reappointed in 2014. [2] Wier's service as a magistrate terminated when he was elevated to district court judge. [3]
The Kentucky District Courts are the state courts of limited jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Jurisdiction and bench. The District Courts are trial ...
District Judge James R. Sweeney II: Indianapolis Terre Haute: 1961 2018–present — — Trump: 16 District Judge J. P. Hanlon: Indianapolis Terre Haute: 1970 2018–present — — Trump: 17 District Judge Matthew P. Brookman: Evansville Indianapolis: 1968 2023–present — — Biden: 18 District Judge vacant — — — — — — 7 Senior ...
Under an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution passed by the state's voters in 1975, [1] judicial power in Kentucky is "vested exclusively in one Court of Justice", divided into the following: [2] Kentucky Supreme Court [3] Kentucky Court of Appeals [4] Kentucky Circuit Courts (57 circuits) [5] Kentucky District Courts (60 judicial districts) [6]
He was a law clerk to Judge Eugene E. Siler, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern & Western Districts of Kentucky from 1981 to 1983. He was in private practice with the Lexington, Kentucky law firm Greenebaum Doll & McDonald from 1983 to 2001, starting as an associate before being promoted to partner in 1988.
The United States District Court for the District of Kentucky was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] [2] At the time, Kentucky was not yet a state, but was within the territory of the state of Virginia. The District was unchanged when Kentucky became a state on June 1 ...
On June 19, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Stivers to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, to the seat vacated by Judge Thomas B. Russell, who assumed senior status on November 15, 2011. [5]