The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Appeals from the second circuit are heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut,New York and Vermont. The court has appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is the U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts:
Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government. Before becoming chief justice,Vinson served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938,as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943,and as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals is the lower of Kentucky's two appellate courts,under the Kentucky Supreme Court. Prior to a 1975 amendment to the Kentucky Constitution the Kentucky Court of Appeals was the only appellate court in Kentucky.
Danny Julian Boggs is an American attorney and a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was appointed to the court in 1986 and served as its Chief judge from September 2003 to August 2009. Boggs was on the short list of President George W. Bush's candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky is the federal district court for the western part of the state of Kentucky.
William Eugene McAnulty Jr. was an American attorney and judge in Louisville,Kentucky who became the first African American justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court. He served on every level court in Kentucky.
As established and defined by the Kentucky Constitution,the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is composed of three branches:the Executive,Judicial,and Legislative.
President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969 with Chief Justice Earl Warren having announced his retirement from the Supreme Court of the United States the previous year. Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger to replace Earl Warren,and during his time in office appointed three other members of the Supreme Court:Associate Justices Harry Blackmun,Lewis F. Powell,and William Rehnquist. Nixon also nominated Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the vacancy that was ultimately filled by Blackmun,but the nominations were rejected by the United States Senate. Nixon's failed Supreme Court nominations were the first since Herbert Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker was rejected by the Senate.
During his two terms in office,President Harry S. Truman appointed four members of the Supreme Court of the United States:Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson,Associate Justice Harold Burton,Associate Justice Tom C. Clark,and Associate Justice Sherman Minton.
Lisabeth Tabor Hughes,is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2007 to 2023. She is a former nominee to be a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Denham Arthur Kelsey is a Virginia lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. His twelve-year term on the Supreme Court began on February 1,2015. Kelsey was previously an appellate judge on the Court of Appeals of Virginia and a trial court judge in the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Virginia.
John S. Palmore was an American judge who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1959 until it became the Supreme Court of Kentucky in 1975,and on the latter court until his retirement,in 1982. He served as chief justice in 1966,in 1973,and from 1977 to 1982.
Meagan A. Flynn is an American judge who is the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. She previously served as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2014 to 2017. Flynn was appointed to the state’s supreme court by the Governor Kate Brown in March 2017.
Laurance Browning VanMeter is an American lawyer serving as the chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.
John Baylor Nalbandian is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was previously a partner in the Cincinnati office of Taft Stettinius &Hollister.
Debra Hembree Lambert is an associate justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court and former Judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
Kelly Thompson Jr. is an American lawyer from Kentucky who has served as a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court since 2023. He was previously a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 2007 to 2023.
