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Marylin Pierre
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You'll learn about:
- Inspired by Thurgood Marshall
- Running to achieve more diversity on the bench - outside the current appointment system
- Need for More Attention to Juvenile Law in Montgomery County
- Judgeships in Montgomery County
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- 8 people running for 7 positions
- Marylin the only one who wasn’t appointed
- 7 judges are running to retain their appointed seats
- These judges are appointed by the Governor
- Judges must run during the first election after appointment to retain their seats
- Their seats are rarely challenged
- On the process of appointing judges and incumbent judge advantages in the election
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- Judge candidates must fill out applications for bar associations
- Bar associations make recommendations to the Governor’s Commission that recommends judge candidates to the Governor (the Governor appoints the members of the commission)
- Governor appoints attorneys to become judges
- Lots of politics involved in the process - the bar associations evaluate judge applicants, submit recommendations to the Governor’s commission and the Governor’s Commission sends a couple of recommendations for each vacancy
- Is the judge selection system just? Should we have a different system?
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- Perhaps not completely fair in Montgomery County
- Each county bar association is powerful
- Other Maryland counties do not charge a fee for judge candidates to apply for a judgeship candidate review - MoCo private bar associations charge $100
- The MoCo bar association has 4 representatives out of the 13 total on the Governor’s Commission
- The MoCo Commission reveals to other candidates before the commission how they voted on all the other candidates. The other bar associations don’t do this.
- Yet - there is an ability to run for judge without an appointment.
- On Judges and Understanding People Coming Before the Court
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- Lack of Understanding / Empathy Persists in Courts
- Circuit Courts in Montgomery County
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- Appeals Function (From State Agency Administrative Process Findings)
- Family Law Cases are the bulk of the cases
- Office of Administrative Hearings
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- Administrative Law Judges
- On the Occasional Inhumanity / Humanity of the Justice System
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- Depending on if the court identifies with the person being judged
- After 18 months in Montgomery County, Judges rotate into different dockets (juvenile law to another type of law)
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