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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10933)	8/15/2006 11:29:48 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

The problem with term limits for judges is this - For someone to make a qualified judge, he or she generally has to be an experienced attorney. You don't see too many freshly-minted attorneys being selected as judges. Unless they come out of the government, experienced attorneys generally have built up a private practice that gets handed off to others when the judge takes the bench. By the time ten years passes, those clients are scattered to the wind, and the judge is faced with starting over again to build a practices (unless, of course, he or she came out of the government and can go back to the government). Term limits would result in a situation where many experienced attorneys would be disinclined to walk away from a lucrative private practice to become a judge if he knows that in 10 years he'll have to start all over again.