The Commission on Judicial Performance Review voted Friday to rate Judge Carmine Cornelio of Pima County Superior Court and Judge Jo Lynn Gentry of Maricopa County Superior Court as not meeting judicial standards, and voters should fire them.
The commission on Friday voted unanimously in rating 62 judges as meeting judicial standards. Five judges had scores of 31-1, and one judge, Joan Wagener of Pima County Superior Court, had six votes against her.
Fourteen commission members thought Gentry meets standards and 17 did not, while one did not vote. Only four members thought Cornelio was qualified.
Cornelio has a history of temperament problems back to 2007.
The Commission on Judicial Conduct disciplined him in 2013 for his behavior as he helped negotiate settlements in two lawsuits in 2011 and 2012.
In one case he was accused of unacceptable use of profanity, inappropriate and improper statements, gender bias, making a 19-year-old plaintiff who had been exposed to toxic mold cry, and nearly breaking an expensive magnifying glass the plaintiff used to read legal documents.
Cornelio displayed much of the same behavior in a second case in which he was also accused of trying to be coercive.
Information from Arizona Capitol Times
