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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Ind. Courts - More on: Indiana Supreme Court only Supreme Court in Nation with No Women Members!
Indiana has the only top court in the nation with no women members, and many in the State of Idaho are doing their best to keep Idaho from becoming the second such state. See this ILB entry from Tuesday.
Currently the only woman justice on the Iowa Supreme Court is retiring and nominees are being selected to fill her spot.
Today the Twin Falls Iowa Times-News reports that two of the four nominees to be submitted to the Governor are women:
BOISE, Idaho - The Associated Press has learned that the Idaho Judicial Council has nominated 4th District Judges Joel Horton and Darla Williamson, 3rd District Judge Juneal Kerrick and Coeur d'Alene attorney Kenneth Howard for the Idaho Supreme Court.Two sources involved in the nomination process who requested anonymity confirmed the names Wednesday morning.
Now Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter will select one of the four nominees to fill the spot on the bench being vacated by retiring Idaho Supreme Court Justice Linda Copple-Trout.
Two of the nominees - Williamson and Kerrick - are women, easing concerns from some legal experts that Idaho could become one of only two states without a woman on its highest courts. The other state is Indiana. [emphasis added]
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 29, 2007 07:09 PM
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