NKFJ ANNOUNCES JUDICIAL CANDIDATES ENDORSEMENTS

3 October 2022

COVINGTON, KY. – Northern Kentuckians for the Judiciary (NKFJ) announced today that it has endorsed candidates in contested judicial races that are on the Nov. 8 ballot in the Northern Kentucky. “Northern Kentuckians for the Judiciary was created to maintain and improve the quality of the judiciary in Northern Kentucky […]

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NKFJ Endorses Four NKY Judicial Candidates in Nov. 6 General Election

25 September 2018

Northern Kentuckians for the Judiciary (NKFJ) announced today that it has endorsed four candidates in contested judicial races in Northern Kentucky in the Nov. 6 general election. After interviews with candidates for these offices and a lengthy and rigorous evaluation of each candidate’s qualifications for election to the bench, the […]

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N. Ky. Lawyers and Citizens Create Organization to Evaluate Judges and Endorse Judicial Candidates

24 May 2018

COVINGTON, Ky. – While all state court judges in Kentucky are elected by popular vote of eligible voters, the work of those judges is generally conducted outside the view of most voters. To address that anomaly, a group of Northern Kentucky residents has created an organization that will evaluate sitting […]

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How Should Judges Be Selected?

1 October 2015

“Putting courts into politics, and compelling judges to become politicians, in many jurisdictions has almost destroyed the traditional respect for the bench,” one commentator famously wrote on the causes of popular dissatisfaction with the administration of justice. And this was back in 1906. For most of the century since that […]

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