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Friday, October 31, 2008

Ind. Courts - Brief editorial in Bloomington paper on state judges up for retention

"Lawyers' poll backs state judges" is the heading to a brief editorial ($$) today in the Bloomington Herald-Times:

A reader recently asked the H-T editorial board about the judicial retention questions on the ballot. While they are initially appointed, judges on the Indiana Court of Appeals, Supreme Court and Tax Court are submitted to voters every 10 years for a “yes” or “no” vote on retention.

One measure of a judge’s success is how he or she is viewed by practicing attorneys. In response to the Indiana State Bar Association’s 2008 poll, 83.8 percent of 1,500 lawyers responded that Chief Justice Randall Shepard should be retained on the Supreme Court; 90.3 percent voted “yes” to Justice Theodore Boehm; 88.6 percent voted “yes” to Justice Brent Dickson. Court of Appeals Judge Carr Darden received 87.2 percent “yes” votes; Tax Court Judge Thomas Fisher received 88 percent “yes” votes.

For more information on judicial retention, visit www.in.gov/judiciary/retention.

Here is the ILB entry reporting the ISBA poll results. And by clicking the link in the upper right-hand corner of the ILB, you can find a list of all ILB entries on this year's retention election, including links to newspaper stories and editorials.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 31, 2008 08:35 AM
Posted to Judicial Retention