Student government appoints four students to Judicial Board
Four students were appointed to the USGD Judicial Board at Friday’s Senate meeting, filling the board’s vacancies and giving the Downtown campus a working third branch of government.
The new members are criminal justice and criminology major Jesica Norman; public service and policy major Marc Valenzuela; journalism junior and former Barrett, the Honors College Sen. Pedro Silva; and journalism junior Cortney Bennett.
Director of Parliamentary Procedures Andres Cano nominated these students and said he wanted the board to have a wide variety of members.
“I wanted a diverse judicial board and we definitely have that,” Cano said.
The judicial board members submitted their applications and resumes to Cano, who later interviewed them about their motives for joining the board.
The interviews were recorded and emailed to the senators along with their resumes before Friday’s meeting.
According to the constitution, the USGD president is supposed to nominate students to the judicial board.
President Joseph Grossman removed himself from the process to avoid any conflicts of interest because he has already stated that he is going to run for re-election.
He did, however, nominate criminal justice junior Kevin Torge to the board. Torge was never individually interviewed for the position, but was approved at the Feb. 10 Senate meeting .
The new members bring diverse backgrounds to the judicial board.
Silva was a senator for Barrett, the Honors College and was also on the election committee last year. He saw some of the problems last year’s election committee and judicial board had firsthand.
“Last year, I was thinking ‘Oh my god, I need to be on this thing, because it’s a mess,’” Silva said. “I’m doing this to prevent a disaster. I want this election season to be better.”
Valenzuela is in his second semester at ASU and was formerly a member of the student government at a college in San Diego.
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The new members are criminal justice and criminology major Jesica Norman; public service and policy major Marc Valenzuela; journalism junior and former Barrett, the Honors College Sen. Pedro Silva; and journalism junior Cortney Bennett.
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