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Alabama Legislation for Judicial Experience

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The Birmingham News carried a Saturday editorial, "The Alabama House passes a much-needed bill that would set minimum qualifications for Alabama judges, sending it to the Senate, which needs to approve it."THE ISSUE: The House passes a much-needed bill that would set minimum qualifications for Alabama judges. The Senate should finish the job. It is entirely possible someone who has never spent time in a courtroom as a lawyer can become a fine judge. It is also entirely possible - and much more likely - he won't. Experience isn't the only, and maybe not even the best, predictor of who will become a distinguished judge, because there are cases where longtime lawyers with all kinds of legal work just didn't cut it on the bench. But it makes no sense that a lawyer fresh out of law school should become a judge before gaining experience...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).