Sandra Newman

==Background==
* Member of the PA Supreme Court and was able to win a very tight retention election in the fall of 2005. In the same election, Justice Nigro lost.
==Insights==
To win the retention vote and keep her job, in the wake of the payraise scandal, the GOP spent losts of money to insure she was re-elected. 
* Justice Sandra Newman is going to leave the bench in 2006, so say reports. She stayed long enough to get her "pay raise" increase in her pension increase.
:Source: August 18, 2006, Capitolwire: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman Leaving
Newman leaving Supremes? And by the end of this year? Several Pennsylvania
Supreme Court sources and sources close to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman
confirmed that she has said she is leaving after the elections are over this
year. Possible new employers include law firms based in Philadelphia, with some
insiders saying Cozen & O'Connor are currently in the lead. Two court sources
said Newman, who survived a tough retention election just last November, has
told them "the court is no fun" nowadays, and the post-pay-raise attention to
legal perks, combined with her grief over her husband, Julius "Dr. Nose"
Newman, have made the jurist long for a different job. A Republican who has long
been a favorite of former Gov. Tom Ridge and current Gov. Ed Rendell, Newman did
not respond to Capitolwire questions about the reports she would leave at
year's end. Top staffers and state judges also confirmed Newman has been talking
about offers she has received, but Newman has told her Supreme Court colleagues
only that she is considering offers
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