R-260 Page 1 of 1
2024
No. R-260. Joint resolution providing for a Joint Assembly to vote on the retention of two Superior Judges and one Magistrate.
(J.R.S.47)
By Senator McCormack,
Whereas, declarations have been submitted by the following two Superior Judges that they be retained for another six-year term, Judge John R. Treadwell, and Judge Lisa A.
Warren and one Magistrate that he be retained for another six year term, Magistrate Barry
E. Peterson, and Whereas, the procedures of the Joint Committee on Judicial Retention require at least one public hearing and the review of information provided by each candidate and the comments of members of the Vermont bar and the public, and Whereas, Subsection 608(b) of Title 4, requires the committee to complete its evaluation of judicial performance of the candidates seeking to be retained in office by March 7, 2024,
and subsection 10(b) of Title 2 requires a vote in Joint Assembly to be held on March 14,
2024, and Whereas, subsection 608(g) of Title 4 permits the General Assembly to defer action on
the retention of judges to a subsequent Joint Assembly when the Committee is not able to
make a timely recommendation, now therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
That the two Houses meet in Joint Assembly on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at ten o’clock and thirty minutes in the forenoon to vote on the retention of two Superior Judges and one Magistrate.
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