The KBA's Appellate Court Retention Election Candidate Member Survey will be released to the membership on Monday, June 13 and the deadline is June 27. The judges on the Tennessee Supreme Court, Tennessee Court of Appeals - Eastern Section, and the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals – Eastern Section will be evaluated.The confidential survey seeks to find whether attorneys who know the most about these jurists believe they should continue in their jobs.
The survey asks members to respond to ELEVEN questions, and it will take less than three minutes to complete. However, each question requires an answer. To maximize the effectiveness of this process, we must have a high response rate, so please take the time to complete the survey. There is an option to select "choose not to vote" if you would prefer not to select "recommend retention" or "do not recommend retention" for each judge. The larger the percentage of KBA members who participate in the survey, the more representative our bar will be in the information provided to the public and the more we prove to the public that the legal profession cares about our system of justice. The KBA Candidate Member Survey has been designed to ensure the anonymity of each member's ballot and to permit only one ballot per KBA member. We know that it is critically important that no one be able to determine how any individual member voted in this survey. Survey Monkey, the electronic voting software, will confidentially "mark" the records of those members who have participated and disallow further attempts to vote. Due to firewalls that many law firms, government agencies, and companies have in place, you may find that the email invitation to participate in the Survey will be treated as spam, and the email will be blocked. Make sure to revise your settings to add the Survey Monkey domains (*.surveymonkey.com) to your list of safe senders in your email program. Read more. If you have ever opted out of a survey through Survey Monkey, you can opt-in by clicking this link.