Letcher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census,the population was 21,548. Its county seat is Whitesburg. It was created in 1842 from Harlan and Perry counties,and named for Robert P. Letcher,Governor of Kentucky from 1840 to 1844.
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31,2005,and has served on it since January 31,2006. After Antonin Scalia,Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law,also known as UK Rosenberg College of Law,is the law school of the University of Kentucky located in Lexington,Kentucky. Founded initially from a law program at Transylvania University in 1799,the law program at UK began operations in 1908;it was one of the nation's first public law schools. In 1913,the college became the first in the nation to institute a trial practice program,and is host to the tenth-oldest student-run law review publication in the United States. The dean of the College of Law is Mary J. Davis,who happens to be the first woman dean of the Rosenberg College of Law.
John Boyle was a United States representative from Kentucky and later a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,and finally a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky.
John D. Minton Jr. is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2008 to 2023. Minton was elected to the Supreme Court on July 24,2006,to fill a vacancy created by Justice William S. Cooper,who retired on June 30,2006. On the retirement of Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert,Minton was elected by his fellow justices to replace him. He was sworn in as chief justice on June 27,2008.
James Harlan was an attorney and politician,a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as US Attorney for Kentucky and,prior to that,as Kentucky Secretary of State and Attorney General,the first to be elected to the latter office statewide.
William Thompson Scott is an American jurist who is a former associate justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. He was elected in November 2004 to represent the 7th Supreme Court District,which consists of 22 counties in Eastern Kentucky.
Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is an Indian-born American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a federal judge,Srinivasan served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court. He was also a partner at the law firm O'Melveny &Myers and was a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 3,2015. All of Kentucky's executive officers were up for election. Primary elections were held on May 19,2015.
Janet Lynn Stumbo is a former associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,the second woman to ever serve on the court. From 1993 to 2004,she was an associate justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court,becoming the first woman elected to that court.
Sara Walter Combs is a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,representing the 7th Appellate District. She was the first woman and the first judge from the 7th district to serve as chief judge of the Court of Appeals,holding that position from 2004 to 2010. She was also the first woman to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court after being appointed by Governor Brereton Jones to fill a vacancy in 1993. She lost her bid for re-election later that year. She is the widow of former Kentucky Governor Bert T. Combs.
The 2016 Wisconsin Fall General Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 8,2016. One of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats and all eight seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election,as well as half of the Wisconsin Senate seats and all 99 Wisconsin State Assembly seats. Voters also chose ten electors to represent them in the Electoral College,which then participated in selecting the 45th president of the United States. The 2016 Fall Partisan Primary was held on August 9,2016.
Nels Stefan David Peterson is an American lawyer serving as the presiding justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Laurance Browning VanMeter is an American lawyer who has served as the chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court since 2023. He was elected to the court in 2016.
David Buckingham is a former Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Christopher Shea Nickell is an American lawyer who has served a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.
David Allen Barber was a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from March 23,2015,to December 2015 for the 7th district.
Robert Brian Conley is an American lawyer serving as an justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Angela McCormick Bisig is an American lawyer from Kentucky who serves as a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. She previously served as chief judge of the Jefferson County Circuit Court from 2020 to 2023.
