Rick HasenVerified account

How about how many law profs have been *legislators*? Or staffed a legislature of any kind? My empirical study showed big leg experience gap. In contrast, abundant court, agency, firm experience. See Pt 1 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1273943 …, Pt 2 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1544947 …

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Melissa Hart of U Colorado law school was recently appointed to a vacant seat on Colorado Supreme Court and, I think, will need to run in a retention election.

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Thomas Cooley - who joined the @UMichLaw faculty in 1859, then was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1864. He kept both gigs until the 1880s, then was appointed by Cleveland to the ICC.

Rick, are you counting profs who were appointed? Appointed and then re-elected (very common of course in CA)? If either, there are several in CA. Few judges here take the bench for the first time via election.

Former U of MN law professor and MN SCT justice (now 8th Cir judge) David Stras ran for and won re-election after his appointment.

Louis Mandarino in Pennsylvania in the 1970s.

Justice Shirley Abrahamson (formerly Chief Justice until conservatives on Court changed the rules) of WI Supreme Court was appointed to the court in 1976 while a professor at University of Wisconsin Law School. She has run for her seat a couple of times since then.

If you are including trial courts in states like California, there must be a number who were first appointed and then stood in uncontested reelections. I believe that one of my UCLA clinical professors did that in both the Superior Court and Court of Appeal.

Oregon had a law prof become AG, but not judge. A great guy: @johnkroger

Hey Rick I am local if you are thinking about running in Orange County let me know