During Tuesday night’s meeting, the Senate voted on Student Body President Susan Webster’s Supreme Court nominees, which included Christopher Tribbey as Supreme Court chief justice and John Angstadt-Shearer, Ashlyn Robinson, Meagan McCarthy and Travis Allen for Supreme Court associate justices.
All of Webster’s nominations to Supreme Court passed unanimously.
This is a contrast to attempts made by previous Student Body President Joselin Padron-Rasines, whose Supreme Court nominees were challenged in the Senate, according to Alligator archives.
Webster said the applications for Supreme Court justices were open for two-and-a-half weeks, and she received 30, about twice as many as in the past.
Webster phone-interviewed each applicant before deciding on her nominees, she said.
“I made sure I asked them all the same questions, asking them about what they believed what the job of the chief justice was and truly making sure that they were an impartial person throughout the whole process,” Webster said.
During the Senate’s public debate, graduate student Max Stein urged the Senate to keep graduate student compensation and diversity in mind.
Hallie Zimmerman, the president of Innovation Academy Ambassadors, invited the Senate to work with Innovation Academy to help the university become a top-10 school.
Wayne Selogy, the Online Voting Implementation Ad Hoc chair, said the code is still being worked on to set up online voting in the Fall.
A resolution supporting Alachua County Veterans Services and the Gainesville community in repairing the Alachua County Veterans Memorial in Kanapaha Park passed unanimously. In April, someone smashed a pillar that recognizes veterans who died since 9/11.
