Marjorie May "Midge" Rendell is an American attorney and jurist serving as a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a former First Lady of Pennsylvania. In 2003,she was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women".
Dennis Michael Fisher is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He also serves as the Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. A former politician,Fisher has served as a state representative,state senator,and as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002,losing to Ed Rendell.
Russell M. Nigro is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He first ran on the Democratic ticket in 1995. He ran for retention in 2005 but lost,thus making him the first Supreme Court Justice to lose a retention vote since such elections were first held in 1968.
Kevin James O'Connor is an American lawyer who serves as vice president,General Counsel &Government Relations for the Carrier Corporation. Previously,he served as an attorney appointed by President George W. Bush and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as Connecticut’s 48th United States Attorney in 2002. From January to April 2006,O'Connor served as an associate deputy attorney general. In 2007,O'Connor served as Chief of Staff to United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. In 2008,O'Connor was unanimously confirmed as Associate Attorney General of the United States,the number three position at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),a post he held until 2009,when he left the DOJ to join the law firm of Bracewell and Giuliani.
Schnader Harrison Segal &Lewis LLP was a U.S. law firm based in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,and founded in Philadelphia in 1935 by former Pennsylvania Attorney General William A. Schnader,Bernard G. Segal,a former Deputy Attorney General serving under Schnader,and Francis A. Lewis. The firm was initially named Schnader &Lewis. Eventually,Segal was added as a name partner. The fourth name partner,Earl G. Harrison,joined the firm in 1948. When the firm announced its closure it had roughly 90 attorneys in six offices nationwide. On August 3,2023,the firm announced it would dissolve and permanently cease operations.
Statewide primary elections for various state offices were held in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on May 15,2007. Pennsylvania's general elections were then held statewide on November 6,2007.
Pennsylvania held statewide municipal elections on November 3,2009,to fill a number of judicial positions and to allow judicial retention votes. The necessary primary elections were held on May 19,2009.
Stephen W. "Steve" White is a Judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court. He served as Presiding Judge for 2010 and 2011. He was appointed to the bench in 2003 by Governor Gray Davis. Between 1999 and 2003,he served as the Inspector General of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,overseeing California's prison system,and from 2001 to 2003 also served as Special Counsel to the Governor. From 1995 to 1999 he was a partner in the law firm Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann &Girard. He was the District Attorney of Sacramento County from 1989 to 1995. From 1983 to 1989 he was Chief Assistant Attorney General for California. From 1979 to 1983 he was Executive Director of the California District Attorneys Association. He was deputy and supervising deputy district attorney in Sacramento County from 1974 to 1979. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of California,Davis School of Law since 1996. He received his J.D. from the University of California,Davis School of Law in 1974.
Martin J. Silverstein is an American attorney and diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
James Paul Oetken,known professionally as J. Paul Oetken,is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is the first openly gay man to be confirmed as an Article III judge.
F. Emmett Fitzpatrick Jr. was an American politician,attorney and professor. A noted criminal defense attorney,he served as the District Attorney of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,between 1974 and 1978.
Mark Howard Cohen is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Edward W. Scruggs was a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court from August 5,1964 to January 4,1965. Scruggs served the third shortest tenure in the court's history.
William Edward Hunt,Sr. was an American soldier,lawyer,and jurist. He served as the County Attorney for Liberty County,Montana,and later as the mayor of Chester,Montana. During his tenure as mayor,he founded the Montana Consumers Council. From 1970 to 1975,he served as the Director of the Montana Aeronautics Commission. He was appointed the first Montana Workers' Compensation Court judge in July 1975,organizing the court and serving until August 1981. He won a nonpartisan election as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court in 1984,and served from January 2,1985,until his retirement on December 31,2000.
Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals from 2012 to 2018.
Gregory Thomas D'Auria is an American lawyer and judge who has served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2017. He previously was Solicitor General of Connecticut.
Egan Kirk Walker is an American lawyer and judge from Nevada. He is a judge in the General Jurisdiction of the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada. He was appointed to this role by Governor Brian Sandoval on December 20,2017. Prior to this appointment he had served in the family division of the same court for nine years.
Patrick Eugene Donovan is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court since 2018.
Bridget Anne Shelton Bade is an American lawyer and jurist from Arizona. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Steven Daniel Grimberg is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
