Candidates: You can copy and paste the survey questions below into your email write screen, type your answers and then send to lifepac@lifepac.org.  Alternatively, you can send in your own composition using some of the survey's themes.  Responses will be authenticated.

1. What role do you believe a judge plays in our society and government? 
 

2. Which current or recent state Supreme Court Justices best reflect your judicial philosophy?  Please explain why.  
 

3. If you are currently a judge, which of your recent written opinions best reflects your values and skills as a judge?   
 

4. If you are not currently a judge, which brief or other written work you¹ve produced best reflects your judicial philosophy and legal skills? 

5. According to the Ethics Advisory Committee, Opinion 90-06, judicial candidates are prohibited from discussing their personal beliefs regarding abortion.  Similar rules have been challenged and overturned in other states on First amendment grounds. Do you support the current rule prohibiting the discussion of abortion by judicial candidates?

Yes        No

6. Would you work to update Canon 7 of the Code of Judicial Conduct to allow more open debate by judicial candidates?

Yes        No

7. Please state your qualifications for judicial office such as your professional, educational, family and community accomplishments.  You may also add any further comments regarding the relationship of your candidacy to respect life issues. 

8. May LifePac post a digital image of your returned survey on its website?

Yes        No