A couple of announcements concerning judicial retirements

FWIW has covered judicial elections for many years. When new judges arrive on the scene, by election or appointment, FWIW is right there to tell you about it. Eventually, anyway.

But when judges retire, it's a different story. Judges step down for their own reasons, in their own time, and, unless it is a high profile retirement, like the recently announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis, the larger public usually takes no notice. But I found a couple of items this week about judges who are stepping down soon that I thought might be worth sharing.

I don't pretend to know anything about this event, other than it is meant to honor retiring Judge Sophia Hall, but it certainly looks like it might be a lot of fun.

I also saw this announcement about the pending retirement of Associate Judge Sybil C. Thomas:

Organizers here are putting together a memory book to be presented to Judge Thomas. Persons who wish to contribute to this can use the link in the preceding sentence. The deadline for submissions is January 31.

FWIW will never be able to cover judcial retirements to any serious extent. But... just this once, anyway... it seems like it might be alright.