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The Tennessee Plan is a system used to appoint and (elect ) appellate court judges in Tennessee. The system required candidates be selected by a nominating commission and therefore plays a significant role in the selection of the state's judiciary. It is largely patterned after the Missouri Plan, and an earlier version in Tennessee was called the Modified Missouri Plan. The Tennessee Plan provided that appellate court vacancies must be filled by one of three nominees submitted by the (Judicial Nominating Commission ) and approved by the governor of Tennessee from a panel. At the next general election and at the end of every eight-year term, voters' input is limited to deciding whether each judge shall be retained through a yes-no (election ). This system applies to the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Tennessee Court of Appeals, and the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. The next regular election for state judges will be in August 2022. In November 2014 a referendum on formally adopting the Tennessee Plan as an amendment to the Tennessee Constitution, clarifying its status, was held, and the Plan's provisions were formally added to the Constitution, modified only slightly in that the governor can now select his own nominees to the courts without the input from a commission, and that nominees must be confirmed or disapparoved by the General Assembly, which must vote whether to do so within 60 days of the nominee's selection if it is in session, and within 60 days of the convening of the next session if it is not in session at the time of the appointment, and if no vote is taken within this deadline, the nominees are considered to have been confirmed by default. () ==Process== Until the ratification of the constitutional amendment in 2014, when a vacancy occurred, the Judicial Nominating Commission accepted applications from any qualified Tennessee lawyer. Typical qualifications include age, residency, and proper professional standing. The commission then chose three nominees from the applications received. The commission submitted these three nominees—altogether called a panel—to the governor of Tennessee. Residency qualifications included not only state citizenship, but also citizenship within a particular Grand Division. If the governor rejected the entire panel, the commission had to submit another panel. When this occurred, the governor was compelled to choose a nominee from the second panel. No one who was on a rejected panel of nominees can be on the second panel. This process effectively guaranteed that one of six of the nominees chosen by the 17 members of the Nominating Commission must become a judge. The (Judicial Nominating Commission ) was composed of 17 unelected members, with explicit requirements that the majority be lawyers. Once chosen by the governor, the judge took his/her seat. At the first statewide general election following his or her appointment the person's name is placed before the public on the ballot on a simple yes-no basis, e.g., "Shall Jon R. Smith be elected and retained as Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, for Middle Tennessee?" If a majority of voters decides this question in the negative, the process outlined above starts over. Every eight years (1998, 2006, 2014, 2022, ''et seq.''), all members of all of the state appellate courts are subjected to this process as well. All judges are elected statewide, not just in the Grand Division from which they are appointed. In 2006, all judges submitted for approval received an affirmative vote of at least 70 percent.〔The names of all 27 judges (three Supreme Court and 12 each on the Court of Appeals and Court of Criminal Appeals) are available here: ().〕 In advance of the end-of-term retention elections, the 12-member (Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission ) reviews the record of incumbent judges and publishes its approximately six weeks before the retention elections. This report gives the panel's rationale for its recommendations based on the public record of each of the judges and a public interview process in which potential areas for improvement are noted. The report summarizes these findings and notes the vote by which judge was recommended (or, theoretically, not recommended) for retention, although not how each individual commissioner voted. This report is published in the state's major metropolitan newspapers; the 2006 report appeared in Sunday papers as a special section. The 2006 report endorsed all of the incumbent judges seeking reelection, most unanimously and none by a margin of less than 8-3; one member appointed to the review panel at this time was unable to serve.〔(Judicial Branch ) in Tennessee Blue Book〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tennessee Plan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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