Christine Meaders Durham is an American lawyer and judge,who served as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1982 to 2017,including service as chief justice from 2002 to 2012.
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law,also known as the University of Arizona College of Law,is the law school at the University of Arizona located in Tucson,Arizona,United States and was the first law school founded in the State of Arizona,opening its doors in 1915. It was renamed in 1999 in honor of broadcasting executive James E. Rogers,a 1962 graduate of the school,and chairman of Sunbelt Communications Company based in Las Vegas,Nevada.
Ann Walsh Bradley is an American lawyer and jurist,and the longest currently-serving justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was elected to the Supreme Court in 1995 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2015. She has announced she will not run for re-election again;her term expires July 31,2025. She previously served ten years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Marathon County,Wisconsin.
The Arizona Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Arizona. Sitting in the Supreme Court building in downtown Phoenix,the court consists of a chief justice,a vice chief justice,and five associate justices. Each justice is appointed by the governor of Arizona from a list recommended by a bipartisan commission. Justices stand for retention in an election two years after their appointment and then every six years. They must retire at age 70.
Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood was an American lawyer and judge who served as justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy is a Virginia jurist. She was the first woman named to the Virginia State Corporation Commission and later was the first woman named to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia,where she served until her retirement in 2007.
The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law is the law school at Arizona State University in Phoenix,Arizona. The school is located in the Beus Center for Law and Society on ASU's downtown Phoenix campus. Created in 1965 as the Arizona State University College of Law upon recommendation of the Arizona Board of Regents,with the first classes held in the fall of 1967. The school has held American Bar Association accreditation since 1969 and is a member of the Order of the Coif. The school is also a member of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2006,the law school was renamed in honor of Phoenix resident,Stanford graduate,and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
The Arizona Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Arizona. It is divided into two divisions,with a total of twenty-eight judges on the court:nineteen in Division 1,based in Phoenix,and nine in Division 2,based in Tucson.
The government of Arizona consists of the executive,judiciary,and legislature of Arizona as established by the Arizona Constitution. The executive is composed of the Governor,several other statewide elected officials,and the Governor's cabinet. The Arizona Legislature consists of the House of Representatives and Senate. The judiciary is composed of the Arizona Supreme Court and lower courts. There is also local government,consisting of counties,municipalities and special districts.
Reading law was the primary method used in common law countries,particularly the United States,for people to prepare for and enter the legal profession before the advent of law schools. It consisted of an extended internship or apprenticeship under the tutelage or mentoring of an experienced lawyer. The practice largely died out in the early 20th century. A few U.S. states still permit people to become lawyers by reading law instead of attending law school,although the practice is rare.
Rebecca White Berch is a former justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. On July 1,2009,she began a five-year term as chief justice,a position to which she was elected by her peers on the court. As chief justice,she succeeded Ruth McGregor. She concluded her service as Arizona's chief justice in July 2014 when she passed the gavel to new Chief Justice Scott Bales. Berch had been a justice of the state's highest court since March 2002,when she was appointed to the court by Republican governor Jane Dee Hull. She retired in September 2015.
William Scott Bales is the former Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2005 by Governor Janet Napolitano through Arizona's merit selection system. He was elected by his fellow justices as Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court,to replace Rebecca White Berch,effective June 27,2014. Bales served as Arizona's chief justice until July 31,2019.
Natalie E. Hudson is an American attorney serving since 2023 as the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. From 2015 to 2023 she served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Donald LaFayette Cunningham was one of the original Justices of the Supreme Court of Arizona,serving from February 14,1912,to January 4,1921. He served as chief justice from January 1918 to December 1929 and served as a member of Arizona's 1910 constitutional convention.
James Duke Cameron was a justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona from January 4,1971,to February 28,1992. He served as chief justice from January 1975 to December 1975.
John R. Lopez IV is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court since 2016.
Kimberly S. Budd is the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and former justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
James Patrick Beene is an American lawyer who has served a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court since 2019.
Kathryn Hackett King is an American lawyer who has served a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court,sworn in on July 8,2021. King served on the Arizona Board of Regents from 2020 to 2021.
