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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 ...
In 2019, the Kentucky Supreme Court created a Business Court Docket Pilot project in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, effective January 1, 2020. [1] Circuit judges serve in eight-year terms. There are 57 circuits, which may have one or more judges, depending on the population and docket size.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals is now Kentucky's intermediate appellate court. Criminal appeals involving a sentence of death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment of twenty years or more are heard directly by the Kentucky Supreme Court, bypassing the Kentucky Court of Appeals. All other cases are heard on a discretionary basis on appeal from the ...
Joseph Earl Lambert (born May 23, 1948) [1] is a former Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.. Born in Berea, Kentucky, Lambert received a B.S. from Georgetown College in 1970, where he became a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, and was a staff member for United States Senator John Sherman Cooper in Washington, D.C. from 1970 to 1971.
Angela Bisig, as her husband, Arnold Rivera, holds a Bible, is sworn in as a Kentucky Supreme Court justice by Chief Justice Laurance VanMeter during a ceremony in the Kentucky Supreme Court ...
Pamela R. Goodwine 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.
State Sen. Whitney Westerfield speaks on the Senate floor in April 2024. Westerfield is co-chair of Kentucky's Juvenile Justice Oversight Council and sponsored SB 200 in 2014.
Justice District Began active service End of active service; Boyce G. Clayton: 1st: 1976: 1983 John S. Palmore: 2nd: 1976: 1983 Pleas Jones: 3rd: 1976: 1979 Marvin J. Sternberg