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First female (Chief Justice; North Carolina Supreme Court): Susie Sharp (1928) in 1975 [11] [12] First female (Twenty-Second Judicial District): Kimberly S. Taylor (1977) in 1986 [14] First African American female (superior court): Shirley L. Fulton in 1989 [15] First (African American) female (Thirteenth Judicial District): Ola M. Lewis in ...
Four justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 4, 2014, concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a roundtable on Supreme Court ethics hosted by House Oversight Committee Democrats in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2024.
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
On April 9, 2010, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he would retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court's term in June 2010. [39] This announcement had been widely anticipated since September 2009 when Stevens confirmed that he had hired only a single law clerk for the Supreme Court term beginning in October 2010. [40] (Full ...
Nghana tamu Lewis is an American judge, lawyer, and academic from Lafayette, Louisiana. [1] In January 2021, Lewis took the bench to serve as the Division B 40th District Court judge, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. [2]
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