Hence the seeming anomaly that the balance in a presidential election could rest with a county canvassing commission, an elected state circuit judge or an appointed state secretary of state.
Only former Supreme Court justices, elected Oregon circuit court judges, or elected Oregon Court of Appeals judges can be assigned to temporary service on the Supreme Court.
Every six years, Alabama elects circuit judges (who hear capital cases) and members of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and the Alabama Supreme Court.
McCarthy, who after his defeat in the district attorney's race went on to be elected a circuit-court judge, left the bench in 1942 to join the Marines.
Johnson acceded, but when a "fierce and intolerable Rebel" was elected to a circuit court judgeship, Johnson asserted that statewide democratic elections would have to wait until the state was free from Confederate military control.
Judge Gableman, a graduate of Hamline University School of Law in St . Paul went on to be elected to the circuit court position in 2003.
In 1938, he campaigned hard among his fellow legislators, and they elected him a circuit judge, which provided an opportunity for him to become known statewide and broaden his political contacts.
In 1911, he was elected to the circuit court of the 34th Judicial District.
Following his term as governor, Sampson returned to his legal practice in Barbourville, and was elected as a circuit court judge.
