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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 ...
Appeals from decisions of the Circuit Courts are made to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the state intermediate appellate court, which may be further appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court. (Criminal cases in which a defendant has been sentenced to death, life imprisonment , or imprisonment of 20 years or more are taken directly to the Kentucky ...
The Kentucky District Courts are the state courts of limited jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Jurisdiction and bench
In its short history, the Kentucky Supreme Court has not produced much jurisprudence of note. 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.
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Kentucky.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior; 21 Chief Judge Gregory N. Stivers: Bowling Green Louisville Paducah: 1960 2014–present 2018–present — Obama: 22 District Judge David J. Hale: Louisville: 1967 2014–present — — Obama: 23 District Judge Claria Horn Boom [Note 1] Louisville: 1969 2018–present ...
The judicial branch of Kentucky is called the Kentucky Court of Justice [8] and comprises courts of limited jurisdiction called District Courts; courts of general jurisdiction called Circuit Courts; specialty courts such as Drug Court [9] and Family Court; [10] an intermediate appellate court, the Kentucky Court of Appeals; and a court of last ...
The Jefferson County Circuit Court has 13 separate divisions, with separate judges presiding over each division. [7] Circuit Court judges serve terms of eight years. [3] [8] As of 2021, the Chief Judge was Angela McCormick Bisig. [9] [10] David L. Nicholson is the Circuit Court Clerk. [11]