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The Kentucky Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Prior to its creation by constitutional amendment in 1975, the Kentucky Court of Appeals was the only appellate court in Kentucky. The Kentucky Court of Appeals is now Kentucky's intermediate appellate court.
Pamela R. Goodwine (born 1959 or 1960 [1]) 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.
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 ...
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
John D. Minton Jr. (born March 19, 1952, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) [1] is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2008 to 2023. [2] Minton was elected to the Supreme Court on July 24, 2006, to fill a vacancy created by Justice William S. Cooper, who retired on June 30, 2006. [ 2 ]
Kentucky House and U.S. Congressional District maps will remain in place after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled against a Democrat-led gerrymandering challenge to both maps drawn by Republicans ...
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.
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.