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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 ...
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 ...
Search. Appearance. Donate ... Following is a list of persons who have served as justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court in its various forms since 1792. [1] 1792 ...
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.
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.
Lisabeth Tabor Hughes, (previously Lisabeth Hughes Abramson) (born October 1955) is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2007 to 2023. [1] She is a former nominee to be a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Laurance Browning VanMeter (born August 28, 1958) is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2023 to 2025. He was elected to the court in 2016. He was elected to the court in 2016.
Conley attended Russell High School in Flatwoods, Kentucky in 1976. [2] He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Kentucky in 1981 and his Juris Doctor from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law in 1984., [3] while at the University of Kentucky and during his first year in law school, he worked for ARMCO Steel Inc. as a steelworker. [4]