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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Ind. Courts - "Indiana Supreme Court's Boehm to end 14-year tenure"
This long and comprehensive story by Lesley Stedman Weidenbener will appear in tomorow's Louisville Courier Journal. It begins:
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm will retire Sept. 30 after 14 years on the five-member panel, giving Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels his first opportunity to appoint a member of the state's highest court.Boehm, 71, said Tuesday he hopes Daniels will consider picking a woman for the job. Indiana is one of just two states in the country with no women on their supreme courts.
"I think it's definitely something he should - and I expect will - take into consideration," Boehm said. "It may not be the controlling factor, but it certainly should be something that is in everybody's thoughts."
The governor's office wouldn't comment on the criteria Daniels will use to select a new justice.
Instead, Daniels lavished praise on Boehm, who was appointed in 1996 by then-Gov. Evan Bayh, a Democrat now serving in the U.S. Senate.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 25, 2010 08:20 PM
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