Designing an appointive system: the key issues.(Rethinking Judicial Selection: A Critical Appraisal of Appointive Selection for State Court Judges) From: Fordham Urban Law Journal | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Fordham Urban Law Journal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A leading scholar of state judicial elections has estimated that more than eighty-seven percent of state judges go before the voters at some point in their careers. (1) This figure, endlessly repeated in the literature, has fostered a perception of the ubiquity of judicial elections. (2) Yet one might as readily argue that it is appointment, not election, that dominates judicial selection in the states. Twenty-one states initially appoint the judges of their general jurisdiction courts, while another four states appoint at least some of their trial judges. (3) Twenty-two of the ...

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