Portal:Judge selection commissions

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The Judicial Nomination Portal is an online space about:

  • Judicial Nomination Committees
  • How these committees are formed
  • Who is on judicial nomination committees

The purpose of this portal is to build pages on Judgepedia about the members of the state's Category:Judicial selection commissions so that members of the public can find out about the people who play an integral role in choosing their appellate judges.

This portal collects information about commissions involved in the Commission-selection, political appointment method of judicial selection.


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The featured article is about the Missouri Plan.

The Missouri Plan combines appointment and election of judges. Under the plan, when there is a judicial vacancy, a list of candidates to fill the vacancy is selected by a commission; in Missouri, the commission is the Missouri Appellate Judicial Commission. Three (3) names are forwarded to the governor who has sixty days to select one. If the governor does not select one of the three to fill the position within those sixty days, the committee will then make the selection. At the general election soonest after the completion of one year service, the judge must stand in a retention election. If a majority vote against retention, the judge is removed from office, and the process starts anew.

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