Former SC candidate Rowe retiring as circuit judge
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LEWISBURG – Circuit Judge Jim Rowe is retiring, effective at the end of February.
Rowe is chief judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit that includes Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties. He also has ran for the state Supreme Court twice.
His letter to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says he plans to retire on Feb. 29 contingent upon his retirement benefits being certified.
“I am deeply grateful to the people of Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties for having afforded me the opportunity and the honor to serve as judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit since January 3, 1997,” Rowe wrote in his letter dated Feb. 1.
In his letter to state Supreme Court Chief Justice Menis Ketchum, Rowe says he wants to continue to be involved in the court system as a Senior Status Judge and to remain on the Business Court Division.
Rowe didn’t file to run for re-election, of course. But two candidates have filed for the non-partisan race. They are Greenbrier County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jennifer Dent and Charleston attorney Fred John Giggenbach Jr.
In the other judicial race in that circuit, sitting Judge Robert Richardson is running for re-election. The three running against him are Lewisburg attorneys Steve Hunter, Brent Ludwig and Jeffrey S. Rodgers.
Rowe has been a circuit judge since Gov. Gaston Caperton appointed him in 1997. He was elected to serve an unexpired term in 1998 and re-elected in 2000 and 2008. Before that, Rowe served four terms in the House of Delegates, acting as Judiciary Committee chairman and House Majority Leader.
In 2004, he ran in the Democratic primary for state Supreme Court, but lost to Warren McGraw. In 2012, he also lost in the Democratic primary for the state Supreme Court to incumbent Justice Robin Jean Davis and Tish Chafin.
After allowing all those felonys to be dropped aginst the best deputy in the state maybe the nation his chances of getting elected were slim.
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Lets not forget the sweetheart backroom deals doled out with kid gloves on for Tony Soprano Tatano, Armageddon Alkire, Five Felony Wilfong, Kentucky Fried Felon, and......yep, u guessed it.......Sir Cock-a-lot Clifton.
ReplyDeleteNow would be as good a time as any for Slow Roe Rowe to write YET ANOTHER letter of recommendation on behalf of Ol' Cocky J.L. Clifton, Non-Esquire doofus disbarred dude.....and ask the Governor to kindly appoint Sir Cocky to the judicial stench on the bench in the loco poco forest to continue the legal loonie freak show circus.
I wonder if the hipster will try out for the position.
ReplyDeleteNo beer kegs allowed in judges quarters.
DeleteI got a real kick out of the muck followers threating to call the FBI along with other law enforcement on the fat man and followers..
ReplyDeleteThen the FBI and others started to investigate them and put one of them in jail.And try to get a few more.
Man o man under the rocks they went.
Now it may becone even more overcast for them with the two ton badge bunny gone and a change in judges comming up.
The even lost the finally someone lawyer who was discraced they all bragged about.
And the pa office looks like they have gone to sleep again or is that just Alzheimers kicking in .
The followers are so stupid they still do not know they have had thier rears kicked and made to look like petty whiners.
Yes indeed he did a lot of serving as judge, its not real plain who he was serving to me.
ReplyDeleteOf course the same can be said of certain Sheriffs,deputies,proscutors office,former magistrates and all of the auxiliary. I never could tell who they were serving be it themself thier boss or the public.
The Road Runner...