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Judicial Elections: Performance evaluations
Supreme Court elections are coming up this fall in Colorado, just as they are in Washington. In Washington, three Supreme Court positions are up for election. The positions are for six-year terms.
What do we know about judges running for office. What do we know about judges who have been in office and are running again? Not much really. Yet we trust that election of judges is the proper way to go about filling these important positions.
In Colorado some seek better understanding of judicial candidates. Go to the Denver Post and this “guest opinion” Evaluating the performance of justices, by William Benta. Mr. Benta is a former commissioner of two Colorado Judicial Performance Commissions.