The Supreme Court (Filipino:Kataas-taasang Hukuman;colloquially referred to as the Korte Suprema,is the highest court in the Philippines. The Supreme Court was established by the Second Philippine Commission on June 11,1901 through the enactment of its Act No. 136,an Act which abolished the Real Audiencia de Manila,the predecessor of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida. It consists of seven justices—one of whom serves as Chief Justice. Six members are chosen from six districts around the state to foster geographic diversity,and one is selected at large.
The Supreme Court of Georgia is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Georgia. The court was established in 1845 as a three-member panel,increased in number to six,then to seven in 1945,and finally to nine in 2017. Since 1896,the justices have been elected by the people of the state. The justices are currently elected in statewide non-partisan elections for six-year terms,with any vacancies filled through an appointment by the Governor.
Susan M. Leeson is an American attorney and former judge in the state of Oregon. She was the 94th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to her appointment to the supreme court,the Utah native served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1993 to 1998.
John Fitch Kinney was a prominent American attorney,judge,and Democratic politician. He served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa,twice as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah and one term as the Territory of Utah's Delegate in the House of Representatives of the 38th Congress.
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse at the same time. Specifically,polygyny is the practice of one man taking more than one wife while polyandry is the practice of one woman taking more than one husband. Polygamy is a common marriage pattern in some parts of the world. In North America,polygamy has not been a culturally normative or legally recognized institution since the continent's colonization by Europeans.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was established in 1818 per the terms of the first constitution of the state and was known as the High Court of Errors and Appeals from 1832 to 1869. The court is an appellate court. The court consists of nine justices elected in nonpartisan contests from three districts to serve eight-year terms. The most senior justice serves as the chief justice. It is housed in the Carroll Gartin Justice Building in Jackson,Mississippi,the state capital.
Charles Shuster Zane was a legal associate of Abraham Lincoln,an anti-polygamy judge in the Territorial Supreme Court in Utah Territory,and the first chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court after statehood.
Matthew B. Durrant is the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He is a graduate of both Brigham Young University and Harvard Law School. Durrant had a clerkship with Judge Monroe McKay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,a position as a lawyer for the Utah firm Parr,Brown,Gee,and Loveless for over a decade,and time spent on the bench of Utah's Third Judicial District.
Ronald E. Nehring was an American judge and attorney who was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 2003 until his retirement in 2015.
Roger I. McDonough was an American judge. He presided over Utah's Third Judicial District Court for ten years. Then in 1938 he was elected to the Utah Supreme Court,where he went on to serve as chief justice from 1947 to 1948 and 1954 to 1959. At the time of his death,his tenure was the longest of any judge or justice in the state's history. McDonough was known for his mediation efforts during the Strike wave of 1945–1946. In the response to the post-war labor crisis,President Harry S. Truman appointed him to the National Labor Relations Board. In this role,he served on multiple emergency fact-finding committees to help settle labor disputes in the steel and railroad industries.
Jill Annette Niederhauser Parrish is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. She served as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 2003 to 2015.
Judge Frederic (Ric) Oddone is an American attorney and judge serving in the Utah Third District Juvenile Court.
Carolyn Baldwin McHugh is an American lawyer and judge who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. and former Presiding Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.
The Judicial System of the State of Deseret was the legal framework for the provisional government of the proposed State of Deseret. It existed for only two years,when it was outmoded by the newly established territory of Utah,which became an organized incorporated territory of the United States after September 9,1850. Like its parent state,the Deseret Judicial System was never officially recognized by the United States Government.
Valerie Johnson Zachary is a North Carolina attorney who is currently a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Paige Petersen is an American lawyer and judge,who is a justice of the Utah Supreme Court. She previously served as a Utah District Court judge from 2015 to 2017.
Diana Hagen is an American lawyer serving as a justice on the Utah Supreme Court. She served as a judge of the Utah Court of Appeals from 2017 to 2022.
Jill McKee Pohlman is an American lawyer from Utah who serves as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court. From 2016 to 2022,she was an associate presiding judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.
