My boss got promoted!
(That link is only going to work today -- it's a link to the main index page. I can't link to the article itself because it's subscription-only. Later today, if I can find a more permanent source, I'll change the link.)
Anyway, it's more or less a promotion for me too, or at least a change. I'll be doing a different kind of work because we will now be working with a panel of other judges to handle appeals, rather than by ourselves to handle trials and motions. The transition is happening fast -- it's effective March 19th -- so we are scrambling to get ready.
Life is certainly interesting!
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That is really exciting! But I'm confused. I thought she was elected for her current position? Who will take over her spot?
This is great! Appeals....sounds intense. Congratulations to you, Mom, and to Justice Garry.
Be aware, children, that your mother's writing also played a role in the promotion.
It's a little confusing. She was, indeed, elected into her current position as a Supreme Court Justice, and she's actually still in that same elected position. She'll have to run for re-election when her term ends (12 years from now.)
The appeals court she is now on is the "Supreme Court, Appellate Division." The Governor picks an elected Supreme Court Justice to appoint to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
There won't be a new election for her spot because she's still in it -- just assigned to a different task. Some other Supreme Court Justice will now be assigned to handle the trial courts she has been handling. Sometimes the Governor will appoint a judge from some other court, such as the County Court or the Court of Claims, as an "Acting Supreme Court Justice" to fill openings like that. We'll see what happens.
Dad says my "explanation" wasn't clear. Let me try again. Judge Garry was elected to be a Supreme Court Justice, and that's what she will continue to be for her entire 14-year term. Before, she was assigned to Supreme Court trial courts in the Sixth Judicial District. Now, the Governor has appointed her to a different part of the Supreme Court -- the "Appellate Division." She's still a Supreme Court Justice in the same elected office -- there is no vacancy. But now, some other judge will have to be assigned to the trial courts she was previously handling.
Judges run for elected office on the Supreme Court -- but then the Governor picks Supreme Court Justices to appoint to the state's appeal courts.
I know it's complicated. Unnecessarily so, but this is New York State, after all!
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