Dear Auntie,
I echo your request for a listing of judicial candidates and a few snippets about their respective philosophies. I also share your reservations about female judges, but coming from me its simply sexist ! Is this another match in the gasoline can? :)
Newzjunkie posted the judges above, but it still doesn't help if you don't know anything about them. I know nothing about any of them and I intend to not vote or vote no on all of them. I wrote a "How to Vote" article once upon a time and here's my section on how to vote for judges:
Voting for judges is extremely important and most of us don't have a clue who these people are and what they stand for. Once a judge is elected, it is almost impossible to get them off the bench and after enough elections, they simply cannot be removed, no matter how bad they are. They usually don't campaign and to most of us they are just a name on a page.
Here's a scary statistic for you: the California Judicial Council (the governing body for judges) has been in existence since 1961. Since it's inception--42 years--guess how many judges have been removed for impropriety? Nine! That's not a typo, in 42 years the governing body for California judges has only seen fit to remove nine judges. These numbers don't lie.
Once a judge, ALWAYS A JUDGE.
If you don't know them, LEAVE IT BLANK or vote no. Let the ones who do know make that important decision. There are ways to educate yourself about judges on the ballot and one of the best ways is to ask a lawyer friend. They are the ones at the courthouse every day and they see the judges in action. If you trust your lawyer friend's judgment take his advice. Again, if you don't know, LEAVE IT BLANK.
--If you want to read the entire article, click on my name and visit my FR page.