TennWatch/Volitics: Recommendations for State Judicial Elections

July 25, 2006

Recommendations for State Judicial Elections

One of the items on the August 3rd ballot is whether to retain some of the current judges on the Tennessee Supreme Court and various courts of appeals.

Larry Hensen feels fairly strongly that everyone should be thrown out except William C. Koch, Jr. in the Middle Division of the Court Of Appeals.

TeamGOP has endorsed the candidates researched and chosen by the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, saying:

"Rank and file Republicans across this state should not be timid about standing by their convictions on this important issue when others may choose to sit on the sidelines," said Ward. "Judges who use precedent and scholarship to interpret laws and the Constitution deserve our thanks and our support. Those judges who choose to legislate from the bench or let dangerous criminals out of of jail to create more mayhem should be sent home."

Meanwhile, the TFRW notes that any judge voted out of office will be replaced by Democrat governor Bredesen. According to their website, the TFRW reasoning is driven more by ideology than research, which is not what TeamGOP ~~implies~~ says.

However, I will say that a whole slate of judges appointed by Bredesen is a scary thought, and so I am carrying forward the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women's recommendation:

Supreme Court
YES		William A. Barker
	NO	Cornelia A. Clark
YES		Janice Holder

East Appeals
	NO	Herschel P. Franks
	NO	Sharon G. Lee
	NO	Charles Susano
YES		Michael Swiney

Middle Appeals
YES		William B. Cain
	NO	Frank Clement
	NO	Patricia Cottrell
YES		William C. Koch, Jr.

West Appeals
YES		William F. Crawford
YES		David Farmer
YES		Alan E. Highers
YES		Holly Kirby

East Criminal Appeals
YES		Norma McGee Ogle
	NO	Joeseph M. Tipton
	NO	Gary R. Wade
YES		James C. Witt, Jr.

Middle Criminal Appeals
	NO	Jerry L. Smith
	NO	Robert Wedemeyer
	NO	David Welles
YES		Thomas Woodall

West Criminal Appeals
YES		Alan E. Glenn
	NO	David Hayes
	NO	J.C. McLin
YES		John E. Williams

Technorati Tags: Tennessee Politics, Tennessee Court of Appeals, Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals, Tennessee Supreme Court, Tennessee Judicial Races of 2006.

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