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Pamela R. Goodwine (born 1959 or 1960 [1]) is an American judge serving as justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court; she was elected to the court in 2024.She previously held roles as a district and circuit judge in Fayette County and as a judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, becoming the first Black woman from Lexington to serve on both the appellate and Supreme Court levels in Kentucky.
Courts of Kentucky include: Kentucky Court of Justice. 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 ...
A study published in 2007 by the Supreme Court of California found that of all state supreme courts in the United States, the decisions of the Kentucky Supreme Court were the least followed by other states' appellate courts. [1] Notable decisions of the Kentucky Supreme Court include Kentucky v.
John D. Minton Jr. (born March 19, 1952, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) [1] is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2008 to 2023. [2] Minton was elected to the Supreme Court on July 24, 2006, to fill a vacancy created by Justice William S. Cooper, who retired on June 30, 2006. [ 2 ]
John Stanley Palmore Jr. [1] (August 6, 1917 – July 4, 2017) was an American judge who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1959 until it became the Supreme Court of Kentucky in 1975, and on the latter court until his retirement, in 1982. He served as chief justice in 1966, in 1973, and from 1977 to 1982.
After graduating law school, from 1972 to 1973 he was chief trial counsel for the Kentucky Department of Highways in Hardin County and from 1973 to 1974, he served as a law clerk for the Kentucky Court of Appeals. From 1974 to 2006 he was a lawyer in the Bowling Green area. [3] He was elected to the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 2006. [5]
He served as circuit court judge in Hopkins and Caldwell counties for 17 years before joining the high court in 1991. [2] After retiring from the Supreme Court in 1995, Spain joined John C. Whitfield's law firm. Spain died on December 7, 2013, at the Western Kentucky Veterans Center in Hanson, Kentucky. [3]