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In 2019, the Kentucky Supreme Court created a Business Court Docket Pilot project in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, effective January 1, 2020. [1] Circuit judges serve in eight-year terms. There are 57 circuits, which may have one or more judges, depending on the population and docket size.
Courts of Kentucky include: Kentucky Court of Justice. Under an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution passed by the state's voters in 1975, [1] judicial power in Kentucky is "vested exclusively in one Court of Justice", divided into the following: [2] Kentucky Supreme Court [3] Kentucky Court of Appeals [4] Kentucky Circuit Courts (57 circuits ...
The Jefferson County Circuit Court has 13 separate divisions, with separate judges presiding over each division. [7] Circuit Court judges serve terms of eight years. [3] [8] As of 2021, the Chief Judge was Angela McCormick Bisig. [9] [10] David L. Nicholson is the Circuit Court Clerk. [11]
Federal judges should not be categorized here, unless they also held a judgeship under the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The United States District Court for the District of Kentucky was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the time, Kentucky was not yet a state, but was within the territory of the state of Virginia .
Pamela R. Goodwine is an American judge serving as justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court; she was elected to the court in 2024.She previously held roles as a district and circuit judge in Fayette County and as a judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, becoming the first Black woman from Lexington to serve on both the appellate and Supreme Court levels in Kentucky.
Amul Roger Thapar (born April 29, 1969) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States ...
Eugene Edward Siler Jr. (born October 19, 1936) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. [1]