BAR PUSHES CIVIL ATTORNEY FOR JUDGESHIP.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The Ventura County Bar Association is pushing Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that to buck a trend of naming former prosecutors as county judges and appoint a civil lawyer to replace a retiring Superior Court judge. After four of the past five judicial appointments went to top assistants of District Attorney Michael D. Bradbury, the two newest candidates to replace Superior Court Judge Charles McGrath are Municipal Judge John R. Smiley See emoticon. smiley - emoticon and civil attorney Glen Reiser. Smiley is a former civil lawyer who gained criminal law experience while on the bench. Reiser regularly defends the District Attorney's Office and Bradbury himself from lawsuits. The local bar association has pushed hard for a nonprosecutor to replace McGrath because of longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective frustration with the minority status of former civil attorneys on the bench. ``When you've got 16 out of 28 judges who were straight from the DA's Office and several more who were government lawyers without civil experience, you're not representing the bar,'' said bar member Ron Harrington. In July, Harrington and bar President John Howard For other persons of the same name, see John Howard (disambiguation). John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. met with Wilson's appointment secretary, John Davies John Davies may refer to:
``It was a long meeting and it was very instructive, and he made a point of . . . emphasizing that he knew what we were talking about,'' Howard said. ``He gave us a tremendous amount of time to make our case, and it sounded to us like he was going to recommend the governor pick someone with a civil background.'' Retired lawyer George Eskin - a member of the State Bar of California's Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, which reviews candidates - said Wilson is aware of the criticism for appointing prosecutors to the bench. ``I know the Governor's Office is sensitive to the fact that there has been criticism around the state - not just in Ventura County - that between Gov. Wilson and Gov. Deukmejian, prosecutors were the prominent choice for judicial appointments,'' Eskin said. ``I wouldn't be surprised if the governor appointed someone from private practice.'' Other candidates with strong civil backgrounds include Municipal Judge David R. Long, Oxnard attorney Richard Regnier and Ventura law partners Byron Lawler and Henry J. Walsh. |
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