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Douglas Benge (Kentucky 27th Circuit Court, Kentucky, candidate 2022)
Douglas Benge (Nonpartisan) ran for election to Kentucky 27th Circuit Court in Kentucky.[1]
Elections
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Douglas Benge completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Benge's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a life long resident of London, Kentucky having graduated from Laurel County High School in 1986. After Graduating with an Accounting degree from the University of Kentucky College of Business and Economics, I attended the University of Kentucky College of Law, graduating in 1993. I joined the legal profession as the Law Clerk to future Chief Justice Joseph Lambert on the Supreme Court of Kentucky. I returned to my hometown and started my own firm focusing on family law. Twenty-nine years later, after various law partners and associates, I continue in my family practice and have been appointed as the Master Commissioner for Laurel County and elected by 27 Kentucky counties to the Kentucky Board of Bar Governors representing Kentucky's 19,000+ attorneys.
During the past 29 years, I was married to a wonderful woman and became step-father to an awesome young man who obtained his master's degree and now works in the computer industry. During the marriage, I fathered one son that is now obtaining his master degree. That marriage ended in divorce and I have remained single.
Despite my financial and legal education, I am a rabid historian and participate in Civil War Reenacting. In my spare time (if any) I am an avid photographer, certified SCUBA diver, and high handicap golfer.
- Real life experiences to make real life decisions.
- Twenty-nine years of legal practice will insure timely thoughtful decisions.
- Everyone starts out equal in my eyes and fairness is paramount to justice.
Judges do not make public policy; that is best left to legislative bodies. Judges administer justice hopefully in a fair manner.
Justice means giving each person what he or she deserves or, in more traditional terms, giving each person his or her due. Justice and fairness are closely related terms that are often today used interchangeably. While justice usually has been used with reference to a standard of rightness, fairness often has been used with regard to an ability to judge without reference to one's feelings or interests; fairness has also been used to refer to the ability to make judgments that are not overly general but that are concrete and specific to a particular case. In any case, a notion of being treated as one deserves is crucial to both justice and fairness.
The most fundamental principle of justice—one that has been widely accepted since it was first defined by Aristotle more than two thousand years ago—is the principle that "equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally." I express this principle as "Individuals should be treated the same, unless they differ in ways that are relevant to the situation in which they are involved."
The foundations of justice can be traced to the notions of social stability, interdependence, and equal dignity. The stability of a society—or any person, for that matter—depends upon the extent to which the members of that society feel that they are being treated justly.
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[1] ↑ Submitted to Ballotpedia's candidate survey in 2022.
