The JNC process.

• Author: Spencer, Thomas R.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

President Johnson has spent a considerable amount of her presidency attacking the present governor-dominated JNC process. She prefers the previous (Bar-selected) process. Her position is ill-founded. The previous process resulted in a white-male bias not only in the selection of the JNC membership, but also in the resulting judicial nominations. The present process has resulted in far more diversity on the JNCs and in appointments by the governor.

She complains about "politics" in the JNC process. Fortunately, the governor is the result of and answerable to a citizen political process. The Bar has its own...