The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The court is composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Members of the court are elected to six-year terms. Justices must retire at the end of the calendar year in which they reach the age of 75,per the Washington State Constitution.
William Francis Fitzgerald was an American jurist who served on the Federal bench as an associate justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court,as well as at the state level as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Other positions he held include California Attorney General and judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is housed in the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in downtown Montgomery,Alabama.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana is the highest court and court of last resort in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The modern Supreme Court,composed of seven justices,meets in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
James Earl Graves Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Mississippi. A creation of the Mississippi Legislature,the court began operations in 1995 for the purpose of relieving a backlog of cases before the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Justice Smith is an American actor.
William Lowe Waller Jr. is an American judge who served on the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1998 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was chief justice for his last decade in office. Waller was a candidate for the Republican nomination of Governor of Mississippi in the 2019 election,but was defeated by Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was established in the first constitution of the state following its admission as a State of the Union in 1817 and was known as the High Court of Errors and Appeals. The court is an appellate court,as opposed to a trial court. The Court Building is located in downtown Jackson,Mississippi,the state capital.
Roy Noble Lee was an American judge who served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1976 to 1983,and as chief justice from 1987 to 1993. Born in Madison County,Mississippi,Lee received his bachelor's degree from Mississippi College and his law degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon,Tennessee. He was an FBI agent from 1942–44 and served in the United States Navy Reserves during World War II. Lee was a state district attorney and then a state circuit court judge.
Armis E. Hawkins was an American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1980 to 1995.
Neville Patterson was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1962 to 1986,serving as chief justice from 1977 to 1986.
Sydney McCain Smith was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1909 to 1948,and its chief justice starting in 1912. His 39-year tenure made him "by far the longest-serving Mississippi Supreme Court justice".
William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1952 to 1971,serving as chief justice from 1966 until his death in 1971.
Cotesworth Pinckney Smith was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1832 to 1838,and again in 1840,and was chief justice from 1849 to 1861,returning to Associate Justice status from then until his death in 1862.
Virgil Alexis Griffith was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1928 to 1949,serving as chief justice from 1948 to 1949.
David M. Ishee is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Lenore Loving Prather was the Supreme Court of Mississippi’s first female justice and chief justice. Prather began her law career as an attorney and city court judge throughout the 1960s. After working as a Chancery judge in the 1970s,she became a Supreme Court judge for Mississippi in 1982. Prather was later promoted to Chief Justice in 1998 and held this position until 2001.
Two justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the fifteen-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2022,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. These elections were conducted on a partisan basis.
Malcolm Bailey Montgomery was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1948 to 1950.
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