Event class: county, appointed, judge, elected, court, served, attorney, became, district, office

Events with high posterior probability

Thomas Mellon	In 1859, he was elected assistant judge of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and on December 1 began a ten-year judicial career.
Allen C. Thompson	His father was an attorney, city prosecutor and city judge prior to his death in 1916.
John S. Gibson	He became one of Georgia's most feared and admired attorneys, and his excellence as a trial lawyer led to his election in 1934 as solicitor general, a position equivalent to today's district attorney.
Pietro Scaglione	After a career in the judiciary, he became Chief Prosecutor of Palermo in April 1962.
Charles S. Morehead	He was appointed as state attorney general in 1832 and served for five years.
Merrick B. Garland	From 1994 until his appointment as U. S. Circuit Judge, Judge Garland served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, where his responsibilities included the supervision of the Oklahoma City bombing and UNABOM prosecutions.
Robert M. Morgenthau	Morgenthau returned to private life until 1974, when he was elected to the office of District Attorney of New York County.
Norman J. Levy	Levy practiced law and was appointed an assistant district attorney of Nassau County, New York in 1959.
Carl Andrew Weinman	In 1937, Weinman was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Jefferson County, Ohio.
Wright Patman	He left the House in 1924 when he was appointed district attorney of the fifth judicial district of Texas.
Platt Adams	A resident of South Orange, New Jersey, Adams was serving in the New Jersey General Assembly when he was named as the state's Chief Boxing Inspector in March 1923.
L. Brooks Patterson	Following 16 years as the Prosecutor of Oakland County, he was elected in 1992 to the office of County Executive.
William Lucas (Michigan)	Lucas was elected Wayne County sheriff in his own right in 1970 and reelected twice thereafter, serving in that capacity for thirteen years.
Mary Ann McMorrow	She was elected a Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1976.
Hal Stratton	In 1986, Stratton was elected to the office of New Mexico Attorney General.
Frederick M. Lawrence	He began his legal career in 1980 as clerk to Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Irving Younger	In 1968, Younger was unexpectedly elected as a judge of the New York City Civil Court, a lower-level trial court, from a district in Manhattan, running on the Democratic, Liberal, and Conservative party lines.
Scott J. Silverman	On September 4, 1990, Dade County voters elected Scott J. Silverman a judge of the Dade County Court.
James Aiona	He began his legal career at the City and County of Honolulu as a deputy prosecutor, and was appointed to the Hawai i State Judiciary in 1990 as a Family Court judge.
Susan Castillo	In 2011, a state law eliminated the position of elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, effective with the end of Castillo's term or resignation, and made the Governor the Superintendent, with the responsibility of appointing a Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Gilbert Belnap	He later served as Weber County sheriff and held numerous other community positions, including pound keeper, city attorney, county attorney, county assessor and collector, county court selectman, school district trustee, irrigation company trustee, 1872 Utah state constitutional convention delegate, district census taker, and U. S. mail contract awardee.
William Lee Robinson	In 2004 Lee Robinson was selected and is now serving as the Circuit Public Defender of the Macon Judicial Circuit, which includes Bibb, Peach and Crawford Counties.
Andreas Berg	After a period as a deputy judge in Trondhjem City Court, he worked as an attorney in the city from 1885.
Stephen J. Windhorst	Four years later, on October 7, 2000, Windhorst was elected judge of Division J of the 24th Judicial District Court.
Samuel H. Shapiro	Turning to public service, he was elected state's attorney (county prosecutor) of Kankakee County in 1936.
David McCulloch (judge)	In 1895, Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois appointed McCulloch bankruptcy referee for Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Marshall, Stark, and Putnam counties.
William Gibbs McAdoo	He was appointed deputy clerk of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in 1882.
Henry P. Moulton	In 1870 he was elected to the Massachusetts General Court.
James E. Nugent	That same year, he became the county attorney in his native Kerr County, a position that he retained until 1954.
Stuart R. Pollak	After 20 years as a trial judge, in 2002 Pollak was appointed to the California Court of Appeal in the First Appellate District by then-Governor Gray Davis.
Harry Lee (sheriff)	He resigned as a Federal Magistrate in 1975 and was appointed Parish Attorney for Jefferson Parish.
John F. Brady	On November 6, 2012, John Brady was elected clerk of the Peace for Sussex County, Delaware.
Egbert Myjer	In 1996 he was appointed deputy procurator-general (later renamed as : chief advocate-general) at the Amsterdam Court of Appeals.
Stewart L. Woodford	In 1861 he was appointed U. S. assistant district attorney for the southern district of New York, holding this office about eighteen months.
Blanche Bruce	Bruce served as the District of Columbia recorder of deeds in 1890 -- 93 and earned a salary of $ 30,000 per year.
Donald Grant Nutter	He left school after his father became ill to return to Sidney, where he entered public service in 1937 as the deputy clerk of the Richland County District Court.
Daniel Govan	In 1850 Govan was elected deputy sheriff of Sacramento, and two years later he returned to Mississippi and took up work as a planter.
Joe Miller (Alaska politician)	Miller was appointed a state court magistrate for the remote village of Tok, as well as a superior court master for the Alaska's Fourth Judicial District in 1998.
Morton Ira Greenberg	He served in the trial divisions -- first in the law division then in the chancery division -- until 1980, when he was appointed as a Judge in the New Jersey Appellate Division.
Joseph A. Wright	He left the General Assembly to become the prosecuting attorney of the Indiana 1st circuit in 1838, but found he did not like the constant traveling and resigned the following year.
John Perkins, Jr.	He was appointed judge of the circuit court for the district comprising Tensas and Madison Parishes in 1851.
Scott Leavitt	Scott Leavitt moved with his parents in 1881 to Bellaire, Michigan, where his father Roswell served as prosecuting attorney and circuit court commissioner.
Joseph (Balabanov)	July 13, 1983 hieromonk Joseph was assigned as the dean of Serpukhov circuit, consisting of Serpukhovsky, Chekhovsky and Narofominsky districts.
Anne M. Patterson	In 1989, Patterson left Riker Danzig to serve as a deputy attorney general and special assistant to New Jersey Attorney General Peter N. Perretti, Jr., handling civil litigation and criminal appeals on behalf of the state.
Lawrence T. Harris	Then in 1905 Harris was appointed as judge to Oregon's 2nd Judicial District.
Bernard W. Nussbaum	In 1962 he was sworn in as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, in the office led by Robert Morgenthau.
J. B. Van Hollen	In 1993, Governor Tommy Thompson appointed Van Hollen District Attorney in Ashland County, where he served for six years.
Reuben K. Davis	In March 1967 he was appointed as the first African American Rochester City Court Judge.
Robert M. Nevin	In 1876, Robert Nevin entered into professional partnership with Alvin W. Kumler, and the firm of Nevin & Kumler was maintained until the election of Kumler as judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, by which time it was the oldest confinuous law partnerships in south central Ohio.
Dick Thornburgh	In 1969 President of the United States Richard Nixon appointed Thornburgh as the U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where he earned a reputation as being tough on organized crime.
Katherine Polk Failla	She became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York in 2000.
Jimm Larry Hendren	Meanwhile, in 1977, he became a probate judge (Chancellor) of Arkansas' Sixteenth Chancery District, before returning again to his private practice.
Buren R. Sherman	Sherman was elected county judge of Benton County upon his return, resigning from the post in 1866 to accept a position in the office of the clerk of the district court.
Emmett Wilson	Wilson was appointed assistant United States attorney for the northern district of Florida February 1, 1907, and United States attorney for the same district October 7, 1907.
Tony Rackauckas	Rackauckas left private practice in 1990 when he was appointed by California Governor George Deukmejian to be a municipal court judge.
David F. Levi	In 1983, he joined the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California as a prosecutor.
Edith Cowan	At the age of eighteen (12 November 1879) she married James Cowan, a career public servant who had held numerous positions and was at that time Registrar and Master of the Supreme Court.
Gustavus Cheyney Doane	In 1867, Doane tried his hand at politics in Mississippi, becoming Justice of the Peace and Mayor of Yazoo City for a short period of time.
Maura D. Corrigan	In 1979, she became an Assistant U. S. Attorney, serving as Chief of Appeals ; she later became the first woman to serve as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney.
Gary Watkins	In 1977, while an alternative municipal judge, Watkins was appointed Ector county judge, a position to which he was subsequently elected.
Birkett D. Fry	Fry hung out his shingle as a practicing lawyer in Sacramento City and was elected Justice of the Peace, Fourth Ward in 1852.
Michael Francke	He served as a judge for three years, and in 1983 became the director of the New Mexico Department of Corrections.
Farris B. Streeter	Having joined the Republican Party, in March, 1865 Streeter was appointed a Judge of the Pennsylvania District Court.
William W. J. Kelly	In 1871, Kelly was elected a county circuit court judge and also served as a county judge (different jurisdiction).
Curtis Hooks Brogden	In 1838, he was also elected Wayne County Justice of the Peace, a position he held for 20 consecutive years.
John Cravens	John was elected clerk of Monroe County Circuit Court in 1890, and relinquished his job as superintendent.
Tom Corbett	In 1988, a judge appointed him to monitor the Allegheny County jail while it was under the court's supervision.
Ogle Marbury	In 1940, Marbury served as an associate judge and chief judge of the 7th Circuit of the Prince George's County Circuit Court.
Richard Honaker	In 1979, Herschler named Honaker as Wyoming's second state public defender, in which capacity he supervised in criminal law the work of thirty trial lawyers during a two-year stint.
James W. Kehoe	Kehoe was appointed by Governor C. Farris Bryant to the state Civil Court of Record from 1961 to 196.
Anthony Joseph Scirica	Prior to his appointment to the federal bench in 1984, he practiced law in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, serving as an assistant district attorney, and was elected to the Court of Common Pleas.
Joseph B. Keeler	Prior to joining the BYA faculty in 1884 Keeler was County Recorder for Utah County and city assessor for Provo.
Larry R. Hicks	He was a law clerk, Washoe County District Attorney's Office, Nevada in 1968.
James B. Bradwell	In 1861, he was elected County Judge of Cook County, with jurisdiction over all probate matters in Cook County.
Naomi Reice Buchwald	After law school, Buchwald practiced law in New York until 1973, when she become an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, rising to the position of Chief of the Civil Division.
Hammel Madden Deroche	In 1899, Deroche was appointed crown attorney for the county.
John Davis Larkins, Jr.	He was a Conciliation Commissioner in Bankruptcy, for the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina in 1930.
Whitman Knapp	He remained there until 1938, when he left to become an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan under the newly elected racket-busting District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
Peter Panuthos	He was appointed a Special Trial Judge of the United States Tax Court on June 12, 1983.
Charlie Rose (congressman)	For several years, Rose practiced as a lawyer, and in 1967, he became a prosecutor for Fayetteville district courts.
Thomas Rader	He then became Deputy County Treasurer of Clark County in 1878, and moved to Jeffersonville.
Andrew Valdez	Valdez spent 9 years working as a public defender and in 1993 he was appointed a Third District Juvenile Court Judge by then Governor Michael O. Leavitt.
Angel Taveras	In 2007, Providence Mayor David Cicilline appointed Taveras an Associate Judge on the Providence Housing Court.
Frank Licht	The Providence County Courthouse in College Hill, Providence, where the Rhode Island Superior Court, the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and the Rhode Island Law Library are located, and where Licht served as a Justice on the Rhode Island Superior Court, was named the Frank Licht Judicial Complex in 1986, in honor of the former Governor, and Justice of the court.
Robert Condon	He served with the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as chief enforcement attorney for northern California and later as regional investigator for five Western States.
Roger Charles Sullivan	He served only a single term in elective office, as the clerk of the Cook County Probate Court, to which he was elected in 1890.
William Stiles Bennet	He served as justice of the municipal court of New York, New York, 1903.
William D. Boies	On a division of this district, he became judge of the twenty-first judicial district, and in 1914 was elected for a term of four years.
Robert I. H. Hammerman	He first took his oath as an associate judge on the bench of the old'' Baltimore City Municipal Court'' on May 1, 1961.
Peter Campbell Brown	In 1946, Brown was an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Preeta D. Bansal	In 1999, newly elected New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer recruited her to serve in his office as Solicitor General of the State of New York, the statutory ranking officer after the Attorney General.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert	Gilbert was elected judge of the Shelby County Court in 1910.
Augustus Summerfield Merrimon	After the war, Merrimon served as a state superior court judge, then returned to the practice of law, and was an unsuccessful Democratic (at the time, officially called the Conservative Party) candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1872.
James B. Hume	In 1860 he began his career as a peace officer serving as deputy tax collector for El Dorado County, California.
Pat Lykos	In 1981, Republican Governor Bill Clements appointed her as Judge of the 180th State Criminal District Court.
Adolphus Sterne	In 1840, he became a postmaster at Nacogdoches, and later served as a deputy clerk and associate justice of the county court.
Agha Shahi	In 1949, the Governor George Baxandall Constantine appointed him as the Commission of District Magistrate Thatta.
Philip T. Van Zile	On April 1, 1878, he resigned as circuit judge and left for Salt Lake City, where he served for nearly six years.
Richard Dewhurst	In 1856 he was elected Clark County's county judge, and register of deeds.
Carlos R. Moreno	In 1993, Governor Pete Wilson appointed him to the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.