Understanding the Role of Judges in the Legal System Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

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.

Understanding the Role of Judges in the Legal System

1 This is a historical artifact from when the superior trial court in common law jurisdictions was called the "supreme court" (which still exists in some jurisdictions, such as ________).

2 What type of thing is a Judge?

3 When was Judge formed?

4 Circuit Judges and ________ are addressed as "Your Honour" and district judges and tribunal judges are addressed as "Sir/Madam".

5 American judges have ceremonial gavels, although American judges have court deputies or bailiffs and "________" power as their main devices to maintain decorum in the courtroom.

6 In the ________ (and much of the Commonwealth) judges of the higher courts are addressed as "My Lord" or "My Lady" and referred to as "Your Lordship" or "Your Ladyship".

7 ________" (Monsieur le président/Madame le président).

8 The justices of the supreme courts usually hold higher offices than the justices of the peace, a judge who holds police court in some ________ and who typically tries small claims and misdemeanors.

9 In ________, judges of all courts are addressed as "Your Honour", however the Chief Justice is addressed as "Your Lordship".

10 In ________, judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts are addressed as 'Your Lordship'/'My Lord' and 'Your Ladyship'/'My Lady', a tradition directly attributable to England.

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