http://www.judgesonmerit.org Making the move to merit selection for all appellate judges in Pennsylvania Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:27:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.judgesonmerit.org/2008/05/03/justice-oconnor-praises-merit-selection/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.judgesonmerit.org/2008/05/03/justice-oconnor-praises-merit-selection/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 19:21:45 +0000 Shira Goodman http://judgesonmerit.org/?p=98 Minnesota Public Radio reports that in a recent speech, former United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor praised merit selection as a good way to choose judges.  She spoke during a forum focusing on changing the way Minnesota selects its judges.  Justice O’Connor particularly noted that merit selection systems increase diversity on the courts: “In my home state with a merit selection system, we got much greater diversity on the bench, both racial and gender. . . . And it’s worked very effectively, more so than the election system did.”

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