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Family court judge faces misconduct charges
June 26, 2009
Kentucky: Family Court Judge Tamra Gormley, of the Scott, Woodford and Bourbon Family Court district, has been charged with three separate counts of judicial misconduct related to incidents in court. The first of the charges involve her treatment of a defendant in her courtroom. She is alleged to have demeaned and denied due process rights to a man in court on a domestic violence charge. The second complaint says Gormley disregarded jurisdictional or venue requirements and pleading and notice requirements for a domestic violence and custody case, and the third involves crossing jurisdictional lines with an Indiana court.
Gormley has responded that the details are inaccurate in all of the charges, saying, "These are complaints, and I'm confident that I conducted myself appropriately in each of these". She is scheduled to appear in Fayette Circuit Court for a hearing at 9 a.m. Sept. 28.[1]
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Kentucky, Western District of Kentucky • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Kentucky, Western District of Kentucky
State courts:
Kentucky Supreme Court • Kentucky Court of Appeals • Kentucky Circuit Courts • Kentucky District Courts • Kentucky Family Court
State resources:
Courts in Kentucky • Kentucky judicial elections • Judicial selection in Kentucky
