John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. At the time of his retirement,he was the second-oldest justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and the third-longest-serving justice. At the time of his death in 2019 at age 99,he was the longest-lived Supreme Court justice ever. His long tenure saw him write for the Court on most issues of American law,including civil liberties,the death penalty,government action,and intellectual property. Despite being a registered Republican who throughout his life identified as a conservative,Stevens was considered to have been on the liberal side of the Court at the time of his retirement.
James Holley Douglas is an American politician from the state of Vermont. A Republican,he served as the 80th governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011. On August 27,2009,Douglas announced that he would not seek re-election for a fifth term in 2010. He left the office in January 2011.
The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem,Oregon,near the capitol building on State Street. The building was finished in 1914 and also houses the state's law library,while the courtroom is also used by the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Epaphroditus Ransom was an American politician who served as the seventh governor of Michigan and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
The University of Connecticut School of Law is the law school associated with the University of Connecticut and located in Hartford,Connecticut. It is the only public law school in Connecticut and one of only four in New England. As of 2020,it enrolled 488 students.
James Ronald Zazzali is an American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from October 26,2006,until his retirement on June 17,2007. He previously served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from June 14,2000.
Peter George Underwood,was an Australian jurist and the Governor of Tasmania from 2008 until his death in 2014. He was the Chief Justice of Tasmania from 2004 to 2008,having been a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania from 1984.
The Vermont Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Vermont. Unlike most other states,the Vermont Supreme Court hears appeals directly from the trial courts,as Vermont has no intermediate appeals court.
Paul J. De Muniz is a retired American judge in the state of Oregon. He is the first Hispanic Chief Justice in the history of the Oregon Supreme Court. He was elected to the court in 2000,and elected as chief justice in 2006. He won re-election in May 2006 for another six-year term on the state's highest court. De Muniz previously served on the Oregon Court of Appeals for ten years.
Thomas Ancil Balmer is a former justice and chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. A native of Washington,he was appointed to the court in 2001 as a justice,later serving as chief justice from 2012 to 2018. He retired on December 31,2022.
Martha B. Sosman was an American lawyer and jurist from Massachusetts. She was appointed by Governor Paul Cellucci and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2000 until her death.
Thomas L. Hayes was the 71st lieutenant governor of Vermont and a Vermont Supreme Court Justice. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1985 by then-Governor Madeleine M. Kunin.
John M. Greaney is a former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. After his judicial retirement,he served as Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School. He currently is in private practice as senior counsel at Bulkley Richardson in Springfield,Massachusetts.
Franklin Swift Billings Jr. was an American politician and judge from the state of Vermont. Billings served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives,Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
Douglas L. Combs is an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Brad Henry to the Oklahoma Supreme Court,effective January 1,2011,filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Rudolph Hargrave. Combs was selected to become Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,effective December 1,2016,and served until December 31,2018.
Jeffrey Lee Amestoy is an American retired jurist from Vermont. He served as Vermont Attorney General from 1985 to 1997 and as chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1997 to 2004.
Jeffrey L. Hjelm is a former Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
