"Being a District Judge in Oklahoma County" was first aired on Sunday April 11th 2010. Our Guests were Noma Gurich, Judge of the District Court, Oklahoma County and Lisa Tipping-Davis, Judge of the District Court, Oklahoma County. Our topics included:- Judge Gurich gives viewers information about her background and legal experience prior to becoming a Judge
- What caused her to leave private practice to join the judiciary
- Judge Davis gives viewers information about her background and legal experience prior to becoming a Judge
- What caused her to leave the Governor's office to join the bench
- Judge Gurich has been on the bench 12 years and discusses the major conclusions she has come to about the state of the judiciary in Oklahoma and Oklahoma County in particular
- Whether resources being furnished to the Judges are adequate and, if not, in what respects should they be supplemented
- Judge Davis has been on the bench a short while and discusses what her biggest surprise about what she is facing
- Civil and Criminal dockets in Oklahoma County and whether they need reducing
- Possibility of lightening the caseload on the sitting Judges without adding more courtrooms and judges
- How they like the system of some Judges trying only criminal casing and some Judges trying only civil cases
- Pluses and minuses of that system
- Judge Gurich is running for re-election this year, what she would like the voters of Oklahoma County, and particularly her District, to know about her and her record as a Judge
- Judge Davis is running for re-election this year, what are the major things a voter should know about her when going to the polls
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