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Janice Holder
Janice M. Holder was an associate justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court. She was appointed to the court by Governor Don Sundquist (R) and assumed office in December 1996. She was retained to the court in 1998 and 2006. Holder retired at the end of her last term on August 31, 2014.[1][2] She was succeeded by Justice Holly Kirby.[3]
Holder served as the chief justice from September 2, 2008, to August 31, 2010, and was the first woman in the history of the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve in this office.[1][4]
Education
Holder received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971 and her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1975.[5]
Career
Upon graduating from law school, Justice Holder clerked for Judge Herbert Sorg, then chief judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. From 1977 to 1990, she worked as an attorney in private practice and moved to Memphis. In 1990, Holder was elected to the 30th Judicial District Circuit Court. In 1996, she was nominated to the Tennessee Supreme Court and began her term there in December 1996.[6]
Awards and associations
Awards
- 1992: Charles O. Rond Outstanding Jurist Award
- 1992: Divorce and Family Law Section Judge of the Year Award
- 1990: Sam A. Myar Award, Memphis Bar Association [6]
Associations
- 1995-1999: Trustee, Tennessee Bar Foundation
- 1996-1999: Secretary, Tennessee Bar Foundation
- 1995-1997: Master of the Bench, Leo Bearman Sr. American Inn of Court
- 1994-1996: Chair, Tennessee Bar Association Commission on Women and Minorities
- Founding member, Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women [6]
Political ideology
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Holder received a campaign finance score of 0.4, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of -0.02 that justices received in Tennessee.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[7]
Recent news
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See also
External links
- Tennessee State Courts, "Justice Janice M. Holder"
- Tennessee State Courts, "Tennessee Supreme Court"
- Tennessee State Courts, "Tennessee Supreme Court Justices Biographies"
- NewsChannel5.com, "Supreme Court Announces Justice For All Tennessee," June 22, 2010
- Knoxville News, "It's a woman's world on the Tennessee Supreme Court," April 19, 2009
- The Commercial Appeal, "Tennessee's first female chief justice committed to law and 'moment'," September 2, 2008
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Knoxville News, "It's a woman's world on the Tennessee Supreme Court," April 19, 2009
- ↑ NewsChannel5.com, "Supreme Court Justice Holder announces retirement," June 26, 2013 (dead link)
- ↑ State of Tennessee, "Haslam Appoints Kirby To Tennessee Supreme Court," December 17, 2013
- ↑ The Memphis Daily News, "Holder to be Tenn. Supreme Court's First Woman Chief Justice," May 2, 2008
- ↑ Project Vote Smart, "Chief Justice Janice M. Holder (TN)," accessed June 6, 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Tennessee State Courts, "Justice Janice M. Holder," accessed June 6, 2014
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
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State resources:
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