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1 This is a historical artifact from when the superior trial court in common law jurisdictions was called the "supreme court" (which still exists in some jurisdictions, such as ________).

2 What type is thing is Judge?

3 When was Judge formed?

4 Circuit Judges and ________ are addressed as "Your Honour" and district judges and tribunal judges are addressed as "Sir/Madam".

5 American judges have ceremonial gavels, although American judges have court deputies or bailiffs and "________" power as their main devices to maintain decorum in the courtroom.

6 In the ________ (and much of the Commonwealth) judges of the higher courts are addressed as "My Lord" or "My Lady" and referred to as "Your Lordship" or "Your Ladyship".

7 ________" (Monsieur le président/Madame le président).

8 The justices of the supreme courts usually hold higher offices than the justice of the peace, a judge who holds police court in some ________ and who typically tries small claims and misdemeanors.

9 In ________, judges of all courts are addressed as "Your Honour", however the Chief Justice is addressed as "Your Lordship".

10 In ________, judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts are addressed as 'Your Lordship'/'My Lord' and 'Your Ladyship'/'My Lady', a tradition directly attributable to England.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • William W. Bedsworth, a judge at the California Courts of Appeal, is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League?
  • Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice in India?
  • T. Muthuswamy Iyer was the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court?
  • Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
  • Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
  • Niles Searls, a California Gold Rush miner, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California?
  • German journalist Heribert Prantl worked as both a judge and a public prosecutor before becoming the head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung?
  • father and son James E. Bolin and Bruce M. Bolin both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a state district court judge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
  • the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers, an allegory for illegal immigration, was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge?
  • two of the four judges depicted in The Bench, a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?
  • the Williamson trade-off model (graph pictured), which compares costs and benefits of horizontal mergers, has been used by the American legal scholar and former judge, Robert Bork, to evaluate antitrust laws?
  • the Louisiana state appeal court Judge H. Welborn Ayres wrote a history of his native Ashland, a village in northern Natchitoches Parish?
  • in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia, England or New Zealand?
  • one of Kentucky's first two judges, James John Floyd, was once a privateer?
  • Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
  • John William Hansen, a member of International Cricket Council's Code of Conduct Commission, is a New Zealand High Court justice?
  • Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
  • Louisiana state Judge Henry L. Yelverton, facing mandatory retirement at 75, went on to work five years as a clerk for the appeals court in Lake Charles?
  • Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
  • Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
  • Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
  • Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to be General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson?
  • Republican Joan Huffman, a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
  • U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings?
  • Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?
  • Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge, where he served for over 20 years?
  • Charles A. Johns went from being a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court to a justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1921?
  • Carol Jean Vigil was the first Native American woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States?
  • wig wearing and addressing judges as "My Lord" or "Your Lordship" in Singapore courts was abolished by Chief Justice Yong Pung How in 1990?
  • Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
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