Would you be so kind as to list each judicial candidate? I've not received a sample ballot so have no idea who's on the ballot.
I have always had qualms about women jurists (and female politicians, too). Although I think I'd make a fine judge myself, I'm not so sure about the rest of them. (With this kind of thinking, do you get my point?)
My boss recently went before a female judge who wouldn't let him say much of anything in defense of his client and spent the short period of time he was before her yelling and screaming at him. He was there to try to save a child from going into the "system," but apparently she wasn't interested in hearing what he had to say.
And there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. So the kid went into a juvenile detention "home," with fine upstanding citizens standing there begging the judge (or trying to, anyway, unfortunately the judge wouldn't shut up long enough to hear what they had to say) to let them take the kid.
Granted, men judges can be unreasonable, too, but they aren't at the mercy of fluctuating hormones and menopause, and female irrationality.
Flame away ladies!
CA Supreme Court:
Joyce L. Kennard,
Carol A. Corrigan.
Fourth Appellate (San Diego, Riverside, Orange County):
Judith McConnell,
Patricia D. Benke,
Richard D. Huffman,
Judith L. Haller,
Cynthia G. Aaron,
Joan K. Irion,
Art W. McKinster,
Betty A. Richli,
Jeffrey King,
Douglas P. Miller,
Kathleen E. O'Leary,
Raymond J. Ikola.
In San Diego, Office #36 of the Superior Court has two candidates in a run-off:
Larry "Jake" Kincaid,
Rod Shelton.
There may be additional/different local judges across the state.
Dear Auntie,
I echo your request for a listing of judicial candidates and a few snippets about their respective philosophies. I also share your reservations about female judges, but coming from me its simply sexist ! Is this another match in the gasoline can? :)