“I will tell you from a personal standpoint that those of us in Alabama who have partisan elections of judges look at Tennessee with a great deal of envy with how you select your Supreme Court judges through a merit selection plan. I certainly hope you don’t do away with it.”

Like Mr. Wells, we live in a state that elects all judges in partisan elections. So, we too must admit to Merit Selection Envy.  We think the cure would be a full dialogue that allows the people of Pennsylvania to decide whether we should change the way we select appellate judges.