The newest member of the state Judicial Qualifications Commission already has experience with the impact its investigations can have on a judicial district.
In 2009, when the judicial disciplinary agency was investigating ethics complaints against an Appalachian Circuit Superior Court judge, Chief Judge Brenda Weaver signed an order unprecedented in the JQC’s history. Weaver stripped her colleague, then-Superior Court Judge Oliver Harris "Harry" Doss, of his criminal cases until the JQC inquiry concluded.
