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Gauging The
Supreme Court

Judge Hilda Gage's candidacy is now official.

JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER

eading into last week-
end's Republican state .rt,
convention, Judge Hil- L. ,
da Gage was positioned 2S
to be one of two Republican
nominees for the Michigan
Supreme Court. But the Oak-
land County Circuit Court
judge, who ran at the urging
of Gov. Engler, wasn't taking
anything for granted.
"You never know what can
happen when you go to con-
vention," said Judge Gage.
"There is always the possibil-
ity of a floor fight, which is
what happened in the Demo-
cratic Party [between Marilyn
Kelly and Kathleen Jansen].
Their Supreme Court nomi-
nations went right down to
Judge Hilda Gage's first race in almost two
the floor."
Judge Gage's nomination decades.
and the selection of current
"When I first ran for circuit
chief justice James Brickley were
rubber-stamped by the party on court, I learned how big Oakland
Saturday. The Democrats picked County is," she said. "I've never
State Court of Appeals Judges run a statewide campaign, but
Marilyn Kelly of Bloomfield Hills now I'm learning and I'm feeling
and William Murphy of East good about what I'm doing."
John Truscott, a spokesperson
Grand Rapids.
from
the governor's office, said
Because the race is nonparti-
san, party affiliations will be left the governor pushed for Judge
off the Nov. 5 ballot.
Not everyone, including Judge
Gage, agrees with the selection
process for the state's highest
court, but "it's a constitutional
provision, so that's the way we
go," she said.
—Judge Hilda Gage
Her next problem is running
a statewide campaign. Judge
Gage's first, and last, contested
race was in 1978 when she ran Gage's nomination because he
for her current seat. She has run was impressed with her legal
unopposed in all subsequent credentials.
"We looked at some of the
elections.
judge's
decisions, and she has an
"Look at my posture," she
said. "I'm running against a Kel- impeccable record," Mr. Truscott
ly and a Murphy. It's going to be said. 'The governor felt her strict
rough. Hopefully, my informa- interpretation of the law is what
tion will get out. Our names will we need on the Supreme Court."
Gov. Engler is planning at
be at the back of the ballot and
least
two fund-raisers for Judge
it's a nonpartisan race where vot-
ers will have to choose two Gage before the Nov. 5 elec-
tion. ❑
names.

"I'm running against
a Kelly and a
Murphy."

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