Superior Court Judge Leslie Olear recently came within a hair of being out of a job when her reappointment after eight years in office succeeded in the House of Representatives on a close vote of 78-67.
And why was the vote so close? Not, we understand, because her competence, judicial demeanor or hard work was in question. Rather, she had the bad luck to be assigned to the family docket at a time when a small group of embittered family court litigants wanted to make a statement about alleged problems in the family court concerning the appointment, cost, and supervision of guardians ad litem and decided to use a judicial reconfirmation hearing as a forum to do so.
