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Eric Haner: [22] First openly gay male judge in Jefferson County, Kentucky (2014) Bryan Gatewood: [11] [12] First openly gay male to serve as a Judge of the Jefferson Family Court (2017) Charles Leon Taylor: [23] First African American male magistrate in Keene, Jessamine County, Kentucky; Charles Neblett: [24] First African American male ...
Elvilen Lewis: [34] First female magistrate in Clay County, Kentucky Lisa Ann Payne: [ 13 ] First female to serve on the Sixth Judicial District in Kentucky (2001) [ Daviess County, Kentucky ] Julia Kurtz Tackett: [ 22 ] [ 23 ] First female Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney in Fayette County, Kentucky (c. 1974)
Following is a list of persons who have served as justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court in its various forms since 1792. [1] 1792–1895. Justice: Began active
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 ...
Wier served as a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky before becoming a district judge, a position to which he was first appointed on September 1, 2006, and reappointed in 2014. [2] Wier's service as a magistrate terminated when he was elevated to district court judge. [3]
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
The Jefferson County Circuit Court is the largest single unified trial court in Kentucky. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] 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 .
Before the Kentucky Constitution of 1850, the primary administrator of a county was the justice of the peace. [3] The 1850 constitution provided for the office of a county judge, elected by the citizens. [1] The county judge presided over certain county courts, most notably the court of claims, the forerunner of the fiscal court.