Until 2001, in fact, when the company went public, a state law dictated that the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court selected 6 of Prudential's 24 directors.
Richard Hughes was the state's answer to Taft, serving as chief justice of the state Supreme Court from 1973 to 1979 after leaving the governor's office in 1970.
A state where a woman was governor, a woman is chief justice of the state's supreme court, and a woman presides over its most prestigious university has different role models.
Thirteen years later, in 2005, she became the nation's first black female chief justice of a state high court.
He retired as a justice of the state Supreme Court nearly 40 years later.
Reeve was a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court (1798 1814) and chief justice of the state supreme court (1814 16).
She also became the first black woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court.
One of the surprise Democratic winners that year included Parker, a candidate for chief justice of the state's Court of Appeals.
His proposals impressed the Chief Justice of the state's Supreme Court, Arthur Vanderbilt, and in 1952, at Justice Vanderbilt's suggestion, Governor Driscoll appointed Brennan to that court.
He was appointed in 1823 judge of New York's sixth circuit court and in 1831 associate justice of the state Supreme Court.
Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire swore in Linda Dalianis, 51, of Nashua, who only a month ago was named chief justice of the state's second-highest judicial body, the Superior Court.
