Justices serve six years terms and then are put up for another retention election.

Only 19 percent of the state's voters voted in White's retention election.

There will be a retention election for the new justices in November 2012.

At that time, they must face a retention election.

Justices serve for life, subject to a retention election every ten years after his/her appointment.

The judge will then serve a one-year term before facing a retention election.

He has since been retained to the bench after a successful judicial retention election in 2010.

Urbigkit lost his bid for a second term in a retention election.

At the same time, he said, retention elections for justices are "consistent with trying to hold public officials accountable."

"There are as many as 16 states that have retention elections for judges."

Luckert will face her next retention election in 2010.

It consists of five justices, who are appointed by the governor, and then subject to retention election.

Judge Oddone has had several successful retention elections, winning the most recent election with 73% of the vote.

No appellate judge has ever lost a retention election since the system was put in place in 1966.

Once confirmed, the judge can take office but then must go through retention elections (at different intervals for each level of the judiciary).

Judges are always subject to reelection and retention elections.

In others, like Florida, they are appointed by governors but face up-or-down retention elections.

Three of the seven justices on that court stood for a retention election last night, and all three were defeated.

Justices also became subject to a retention election.

After an election cycle had passed, the judicial candidate would be subject to periodic, public retention elections.

Judges stand for non-partisan retention election every four years.

Thereafter, that justice is subject to reelection every eight years by a non-partisan retention election.

Contributions from other sources could be limited, he added, or replaced by public financing of judicial retention elections.

Justices face retention elections in which they run unopposed.

Voters will also vote in retention elections on a number of Municipal Court judges.