2023
- January 9, 2023 - 6 p.m.
- Outline
- IAALS, Goals and Principles for Judicial Nominating Commissions
- IAALS, Choosing Judges: Judicial Nominating Commissions and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices
- Brennan Center, Research: Judicial Nominating Commissions
- IAALS, Model Code of Conduct for Judicial Nominating Commissioners
- Massachusetts Executive Order
- Arizona Judicial Selections Website
- Arizona JNC
- Arizona Uniform Rules of Procedures for Commissions
- February 6, 2023 - 6 p.m.
- March 13, 2023 - 6 p.m.
- Distribution of Judges – Race and Gender
- Judicial Vacancies – Readvertisements Due to Number of Applications Received
- Judicial Vacancies – Number of Applications Received Per Vacancy (2018-2022)
- Judges Winning Contested Elections Since 1985
- Circuit Court Vacancies – District Court Judges Who Applied (1/1/2012-9/22/2022)
- Holding Judges Accountable by Steven Platt
- Maryland’s Judicial Election System Needs Fixing Now More Than Ever by Steven Platt
- Colorado Blue Book
- MD Constitution - Article IV, Section 2
- December 7, 2023 - 6 p.m. | Maryland Judicial Center (Agenda details will be available soon)
2022
- September 19, 2022 - 6 p.m. | Maryland Judicial Center
- October 17, 2022 - 6 p.m.
- Executive Order on Judicial Nominating Commission, Governor Glendening
- Executive Order on Judicial Nominating Commission, Governor Ehrlich
- Executive Order on Judicial Nominating Commission, Governor O’Malley
- Executive Order on Judicial Nominating Commission, Governor Hogan
- Judicial Trial Court Nominating Commission Chart
- Judicial Appellate Court Nominating Commission Chart
- Article from Brennan Center regarding Judicial Nominating Commissions
- Current Maryland Judicial Application
- Spreadsheet of current racial/ethnic makeup of Maryland Judiciary
- Chart indicating number of District Court Judges who applied for Circuit Court
- Judges Winning Contested Elections Since 1985
- November 14, 2022 - 6 p.m.
- House Bill 607/2018 Session – Circuit Court Judges – Selection and Tenure
- The O’Connor Judicial Selection Plan by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (ret.)
- The O'Connor Judicial Selection Plan Presentation (Kauffman) - Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
- Bio of Brittany Kauffman, CEO of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
- Senator Chris West presentation
- IAALS, Cornerstones of State Judicial Selection
- IAALS, Goals and Principles for Judicial Nominating Commissions (including key recommendations on nominating commissions)
- IAALS, Choosing Judges: Judicial Nominating Commissions and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices (this publication includes a spreadsheet with nominating commission appointing entities, composition of members, and level of transparency by state)
- Brennan Center, Research: Judicial Nominating Commissions (this report provides additional research on nominating commission composition and speaks briefly to research regarding non-attorney members)
- IAALS, Judges Aren't Sexy: Engaging and Educating Voters in a Crowded World (this publication speaks to engaging the public in JPE)
- IAALS, Colorado JPE SMART Act Report (this report from Colorado touches upon a number of different questions that were raised regarding JPE and provides examples from a specific jurisdiction on social media efforts, statistics on retention and removal, etc.)
- November 28, 2022 - 1 to 4 p.m. | Public Hearing on Judicial Selection
- December 5, 2022 - 6 p.m.
- Pay to Play? Campaign Finance and the Incentive Gap in the Sixth Amendment's Right to Counsel | Presentation
- judicial Vacancies, Readvertisements 2011-2022
- Judicial Vacancies, Number of Applicants 2018-2022
- Circuit Court Vacancies, District Court Judges Who Applied 2012-2022
- Judges Winning Contested Elections Since 1985
- Distribution of Judges, Race and Sex
- ABA Journal, Voters maintain 'the status quo' in state supreme court elections—with 2 exceptions
- Brennan Center, Key 2022 State Supreme Court Election Results and What They Mean
- Brennan Center, New Money and Messages in Judicial Elections This Year
- Neel U. Sukhatme Resume
- December 19, 2022 - 6 p.m.
- Executive Order Chart – Trial Court Nominating Commissions
- Executive Order Chart – Appellate Court Nominating Commissions
- Distribution of Judges – Race and Gender
- Judicial Vacancies – Readvertisements Due to Number of Applications Received
- Judicial Vacancies – Number of Applications Received Per Vacancy (2018-2022)
- Judges Winning Contested Elections Since 1985
- Circuit Court Vacancies – District Court Judges Who Applied (1/1/2012-9/22/2022)
- IAALS, Goals and Principles for Judicial Nominating Commissions
- IAALS, Choosing Judges: Judicial Nominating Commissions and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices
- IAALS, Model Code of Conduct: For Judicial Nominating Commissioners
- Brennan Center, Research: Judicial Nominating Commissions
- Baltimore Sun, Selection of judges revamped
- Massachusetts Executive Order (2015): No. 558: Reconstituting the Judicial Nominating Commission and Establishing a Code of Conduct for Commission Members and Nominees to Judicial Office
- Report of the Task Force to Review the State's Election Law