Thursday January 10, 2013

Late yesterday just before the Speaker adjourned the House for the day he announced that he was going to appoint “non standing” committees as soon as possible. Although he didn’t specify I hope he was including the Judicial Retention Committee and the Judicial Nominating Board. As to the latter, the Bar’s election process is now over and results should be available soon. the Governor has already re-appointed the same two members from last session- Kathy Pellett and Joseph Watson. The House and Senate will now each appoint 3 members.

The Judicial Retention Committee is made up of four members from each chamber. The sooner they get going the better as there are seven judges and one magistrate up for retention. They are:

Superior Judges:

        Cohen, William

        Crucitti, James

        Gerety, Robert

        Griffin, Kevin

        Manley, Kathleen

        Tomasi, Timothy

        Zonay, Thomas

 

Magistrates

      Zander, Barbara

Tomorrow morning the House Judiciary Committee will host the CJ, the Administrative Judge and the Court Administrator in a judicial branch overview.

Thanks for reading.