Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth chief justice of the United States from 1864 to his death in 1873. Chase served as the 23rd governor of Ohio from 1856 to 1860,represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1849 to 1855 and again in 1861,and served as the 25th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864 during the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Chase is therefore one of the few American politicians who have served in the highest levels of all three branches of the federal government,in addition to serving in the highest state-level office. Prior to his Supreme Court appointment,Chase was widely seen as a potential president.
The United States District Court for the District of Arizona is the U.S. district court that covers the state of Arizona. It is under the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by President George W. Bush since before his presidency.
The Nebraska Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The court consists of a chief justice and six associate justices. Each justice is initially appointed by the governor of Nebraska;using the Missouri Plan,each justice is then subject to a retention vote for additional six-year terms. The six associate justices each represent a Supreme Court district;the chief justice is appointed at-large.
Donny Ray Willett is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2018 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was previously a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 2005 to 2018.
The judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore work in the Supreme Court and the State Courts to hear and determine disputes between litigants in civil cases and,in criminal matters,to determine the liability of accused persons and their sentences if they are convicted.
Fenner Ferguson was an American attorney and politician from Nebraska Territory. He was most notable for his service as member of the Michigan House of Representatives in 1849,chief justice of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1857,and Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska territory (1857–1859).
Creighton University School of Law,located in Omaha,Nebraska,United States,is part of the Jesuit Creighton University.
David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention,engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party.
Michael Townley Featherstone Briggs,Lord Briggs of Westbourne,is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He served earlier as a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
James Kelleher Bredar is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
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.
Nathan B. Coats is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 46th chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 2018 to 2020. Coats had been appointed to the court in 2000,by Governor Bill Owens and served until his retirement in 2020. His views while serving on the court were considered conservative.
Dale Eugene Fahrnbruch was an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1987 until his retirement in 1996.
Stephanie Frazier Stacy is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court since 2015. She previously served as a judge on the Third District Court from 2011 to 2015. Stacy was appointed to the state's supreme court by the Governor Pete Ricketts in August 2015.
Carlos Genaro Muñiz is the chief justice on the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 22,2019. Previously,he was General Counsel of the United States Department of Education.
Gregory George Katsas is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2017 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a federal judge,Katsas served as Deputy White House Counsel to President Donald Trump,as an Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice,and as a partner at the law firm Jones Day.
Keith G. Kautz is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court from 2015 to 2024. He previously served as a judge of the Wyoming District Court from 1993 to 2015.
George Richard Bevan is an American attorney and jurist who has served as the chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court since 2021. He previously served as an Idaho district court judge from 2003 until 2017,when he was appointed to the supreme court.
Joseph Patrick Kelly is an American attorney and politician who is the 42nd lieutenant governor of Nebraska,since 2023. He served as the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska from 2018 to 2021. He formally serves as chief of the criminal division for the attorney general of Nebraska.
