Senator Slom’s Remarks on the Nomination of Katherine Leonard to Chief Justice

Posted in Legislature on 20. Aug, 2010

Ability to lead: What does that really mean? Well, if you’re going to look at an individual and see if they have the ability to lead, you look at what their past experience has been, people that they have worked with, people that, in fact, they have led. All of the people that have worked directly with Katherine Leonard—in a supervisory position, a position of equality, or with her as their boss—everyone, without exception, came forward and spoke about her abilities, her leadership, her temperament, her concern, compassion, and care for those that she worked with and who worked for her. Now, we can talk about the one retired Circuit Court judge who opposed her, and five individuals, or we can talk about the more than 100 individuals who stepped forward, including people that knew her intimately from the Intermediate Court of Appeals, from the State Supreme Court, from her private practice. ….