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Politics

Three Nominated to Fill Vacant Kentucky Supreme Court Seat

WEKU | By Beth Musgrave, Lexington Herald-Leader

Published March 22, 2013 at 1:02 PM EDT

A bipartisan nominating commission has recommended that Gov. Steve Beshear consider a state appeals court judge and two other lawyers for an open state Supreme Court seat in Northern Kentucky. The vacancy was created when Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Wil Schroder retired on Jan. 17 after announcing that he was being treated for cancer.

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