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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Ind. Courts - "St. Joseph County Bar Association has released results from its 2008 Judicial Survey"
Jeff Parrott of the South Bend Tribune reports today in a story that begins:
The St. Joseph County Bar Association has released results from its 2008 Judicial Survey, its first attempt in 18 years to rate the performance of the county's Superior Court judges.The bar's roughly 500 members filled out e-mailed surveys containing 20 criteria, broken down by "legal ability," "integrity and impartiality," "professionalism and temperament" and "administrative capability."
The judges received only their own scores Tuesday night. The bar Wednesday posted all of the results on its Web site.
The lawyer group plans to conduct the survey annually from now on and wanted to publicize these results in time for voters to consider them before the Nov. 4 election, when Judges John M. Marnocha, Michael P. Scopelitis, David C. Chapleau and Jane Woodward Miller are up for a "yes" or "no" retention vote.
The judges were rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being " unacceptable," 2 being "below average," 3 being "average/acceptable," 4 being "above average" and 5 being "exceptional."
No judge averaged a "1" or "5" score.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 16, 2008 10:39 AM
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