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• William W. Bedsworth, a judge at the California Courts of Appeal, is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League?
• Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice in India?
• T. Muthuswamy Iyer was the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court?
• Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
• Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
• Niles Searls, a California Gold Rush miner, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California?
• German journalist Heribert Prantl worked as both a judge and a public prosecutor before becoming the head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung?
• father and son James E. Bolin and Bruce M. Bolin both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a state district court judge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
• the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers, an allegory for illegal immigration, was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge?
• two of the four judges depicted in The Bench, a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?
• the Williamson trade-off model (graph pictured), which compares costs and benefits of horizontal mergers, has been used by the American legal scholar and former judge, Robert Bork, to evaluate antitrust laws?
• the Louisiana state appeal court Judge H. Welborn Ayres wrote a history of his native Ashland, a village in northern Natchitoches Parish?
• in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia, England or New Zealand?
• one of Kentucky's first two judges, James John Floyd, was once a privateer?
• Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
• John William Hansen, a member of International Cricket Council's Code of Conduct Commission, is a New Zealand High Court justice?
• Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
• Louisiana state Judge Henry L. Yelverton, facing mandatory retirement at 75, went on to work five years as a clerk for the appeals court in Lake Charles?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
• Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
• Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to be General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson?
• Republican Joan Huffman, a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
• U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings?
• Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?
• Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge, where he served for over 20 years?
• Charles A. Johns went from being a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court to a justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1921?
• Carol Jean Vigil was the first Native American woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States?
• wig wearing and addressing judges as "My Lord" or "Your Lordship" in Singapore courts was abolished by Chief Justice Yong Pung How in 1990?
• Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?