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LAMBERT v. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE JUDICIAL NOMINATING COUNCIL

425 Mass. 406 (1997)

ANN K. LAMBERT v. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE JUDICIAL NOMINATING COUNCIL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Batten (Jonathan M. Albano with him) for the plaintiff.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Dorothy Kelly Gay, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

At issue is whether a questionnaire completed by an applicant for judicial appointment and submitted to the Governor through the Judicial Nominating Council (JNC) is a public record under G. L. c. 4, § 7. Under our Constitution, the Governor has the exclusive power to nominate and appoint "all judicial officers." Part II, c. 2, § 1, art. 9, of the Massachusetts Constitution.1

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