Sandra Day O'Connor was an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan,O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. A moderate conservative,she was considered a swing vote. Before O'Connor's tenure on the Court,she was an Arizona state judge and earlier an elected legislator in Arizona,serving as the first female majority leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Upon her nomination to the Court,O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate.
Mark D. Martin is an American jurist who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 2014 through 2019. He was appointed by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to become Chief Justice on September 1,2014 upon the retirement of Sarah Parker. Martin was already running for the seat in the 2014 general election.
The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio,with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members,a chief justice and six associate justices,who are elected at large by the voters of Ohio for six-year terms. The court has a total of 1,550 other employees. Since 2004,the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center on the east bank of the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus. Prior to 2004,the court met in the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower and earlier in the Judiciary Annex of the Ohio Statehouse.
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Jr. served as the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1984 to 1996. Nix was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state's highest court,and the first African American to be elected to statewide office in Pennsylvania. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for 24 years,12 of which were as chief justice,and was a prominent figure in Pennsylvania law and public service for more than three decades.
John Glover Roberts Jr. is an American jurist who has served since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy,though he is primarily an institutionalist. Regarded as a swing vote in some cases,Roberts has presided over an ideological shift toward conservative jurisprudence on the high court,in which he has authored key opinions.
The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender,ethnicity,and religious,geographic,and economic backgrounds of the 116 people who have been appointed and confirmed as justices to the Supreme Court. Some of these characteristics have been raised as an issue since the court was established in 1789. For its first 180 years,justices were almost always white male Protestants of Anglo or Northwestern European descent.
The Arizona Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Arizona. Sitting in the Supreme Court building in downtown Phoenix,the court consists of a chief justice,a vice chief justice,and five associate justices. Each justice is appointed by the governor of Arizona from a list recommended by a bipartisan commission. Justices stand for retention in an election two years after their appointment and then every six years. They must retire at age 70.
Lawrence Robert Yetka was an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
John F. Reif is a former justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,serving from 2007 until he retired in 2009. Previously,he had served for 20 years on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.
Eric John Magnuson is an American lawyer in private practice. He was the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2008 to 2010.
President Barack Obama made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter. Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6,2009,by a vote of 68–31. The second appointment was that of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace the retired John Paul Stevens. Kagan was confirmed by the Senate on August 5,2010,by a vote of 63–37.
Arthur John Pelander III is a former justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
David Stewart Wiggins is a former Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
William Scott Bales is the former Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2005 by Governor Janet Napolitano through Arizona's merit selection system. He was elected by his fellow justices as Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court,to replace Rebecca White Berch,effective June 27,2014. Bales served as Arizona's chief justice until July 31,2019.
Ann A. Scott Timmer is an American lawyer who has served as the chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court since 2024. She concurrently has served as a justice of the court since 2012.
Roger Stephen Burdick is an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 2003 to 2021. He was chief justice twice for a total of eight years;from 2011 to 2015,and 2017 through 2020.
Anne Ferguson is an Australian judge and former lawyer who has served as Chief Justice of Victoria since 2 October 2017. She was first appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2010.
Andrew W. Gould is a former justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. He assumed office in 2016 and began his second term on January 4,2021,having been retained to the Arizona Supreme Court on November 3,2020,with 68.1% of the vote. On March 12,2021,Gould announced his retirement from the court,effective April 1,2021.
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.
Gary K. Nelson was an American lawyer,politician,and jurist who served as the Attorney General of Arizona from 1968 to 1974. Appointed to the court of appeals,Nelson is the only appellate judge in Arizona history to not be retained by the voters.
