Michael McGrath is an American lawyer and judge who served as the chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 2009 to 2025. He also served as the attorney general of Montana from 2000 to 2008. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force.
The Montana Supreme Court is the highest court of the state court system in the U.S. state of Montana. It is established and its powers defined by Article VII of the 1972 Montana Constitution. It is primarily an appellate court which reviews civil and criminal decisions of Montana's trial courts of general jurisdiction and certain specialized legislative courts, only having original jurisdiction in a limited number of actions. The court's Chief Justice and six Associate Justices are elected by non-partisan, popular elections. The Montana Supreme Court meets in the Joseph P. Mazurek Building in Helena, Montana, the state's capital, an international style building completed in 1982 and named in the honor of former Montana Attorney General, Joseph P. Mazurek.
James Arthur Rice is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court. Rice was initially appointed by Governor Judy Martz in 2001. His current term extends to 2030.
Stephen Clark Bullock is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 24th governor of Montana from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Austin Miles Knudsen is an American lawyer and politician serving as the Attorney General of Montana. He formerly served as the Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. During his time in the Montana House from 2010 to 2018, he represented House District 36, which includes the Culbertson area.
Four justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 4, 2014, concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
Laurie McKinnon is an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court. She was elected to her first eight-year term in 2012. In 2020, she defeated Mike Black, gaining a second eight-year term.
James W. Kitchens is an American jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi for the Central District from 2009 to 2025. He served as one of two presiding justices, from 2017 to 2025. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi School of Law, Kitchens was elected the district attorney for Mississippi's 14th Judicial District three times from 1971 to 1982, representing Copiah, Lincoln, Pike, and Walthall counties. During his tenure as district attorney, he survived an assassination attempt that resulted in wounds to his hand and leg.
Brad Schimel is an American lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. He was the 44th attorney general of Wisconsin, serving from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated seeking re-election in 2018, and was subsequently appointed a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Waukesha County, by Governor Scott Walker. Schimel is seeking election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the 2025 Spring election. He also previously served as district attorney of Waukesha County.
The Michigan general election, 2018 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, throughout Michigan. The Democrats swept all of the statewide offices formerly held by the Republicans.
Dirk M. Sandefur is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 2017 to 2025. He served for eight years as a criminal and civil deputy attorney for Cascade County, Montana, before being elected a judge on the 8th Judicial District of the Montana District Court in 2002. He ran for and won election to the Montana Supreme Court in 2016.
William Burwell Sellers is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Ingrid G. Gustafson is an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court. She was appointed in December 2017 by Governor Steve Bullock to fill the seat of retiring Justice Mike Wheat. She ran unopposed in 2018 for the remainder of Wheat's term. In 2022, Gustafson ran against James Brown, winning an eight year term.
Megan Kathleen Cavanagh is an attorney who was elected in November 2018 to become an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court with a term beginning in January 2019.
C. Shannon Bacon is an American attorney, legal scholar, and jurist serving as a justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Raphael Jeffrey Carlisle "Raph" Graybill is an American attorney who served as chief legal counsel to Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana, from 2017 to 2021. Graybill was a candidate for attorney general of Montana in the 2020 general election, losing to Republican nominee Austin Knudsen. Under Ryan Busse, Graybill ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in Montana's 2024 gubernatorial election.
Douglas Wade Herndon is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court since 2021.
Linda Marie Bell is an American lawyer from Nevada who has served as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court since 2023. Bell previously served as a judge of the Nevada Eighth Judicial District from 2009 to 2023.
A general election was held in Montana on November 5, 2024. Both of Montana's seats in the United States House of Representatives, all of the seats in the Montana House of Representatives, and half of the seats in the Montana Senate were up for election. The primary election was held on June 4, 2024.
Katherine M. Bidegaray is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the Montana's 7th Judicial District since 2003. She became an associate justice-elect of the Montana Supreme Court in 2025.
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