In response to my post on judicial elections this morning, in which I wrote that “I am not aware of any state that has moved from any kind of judicial election toward either an appointment model or a federal model of appointment,” a reader has written to me about New York’s experience whereby New York State voters adopted a constitutional amendment in 1977, moving from election to appointment of judges for the Court of Appeal (New York’s highest court). According to Judge Bernard Meyer et al., The History of the New York Court of Appeals 1932-2003), at page 10, the “stridency” of a 1973 campaign for Chief Judge was part of the cause for the change. Thanks for the correction! And readers, anything more recent than 1977?