Wednesday, March 14, 2018

2d DCA vacancies

With the two recent appointments, it's a good time check on the status of vacancies in the 2d DCA.
The current Justices webpage shows the following vacancies:
one in Division 1 [to be filled soon by Judge Bendix],
one in Division 3,
two in Division 5 [of which one will be filled soon by Judge Moor],
one in Division 7, and
one in Division 8 [and Justice Flier's bio has been moved to the Former Justices page given her 2/28/18 retirement]
So discounting the two newest appointments, that still leaves four vacancies -- the equivalent of an entire division. And there will undoubtedly be more vacancies to come. The court has made great use of pro tems during this recent era of open seats, but it will be nice to have some more appointments. Those will assuredly come sometime before the Governor leaves office...