Judicial Review Board

Faculty Senate Office Contacts

Faculty Senate Chair:  Janet Hecsh jhecsh@csus.edu

Senate Analyst: Kathy Garcia
(916) 278-6847
kathy.garcia@csus.edu

Election Calendar

  • TBA: Call for Nominations
  • TBA: Deadline for submitting nomination petitions
  • TBA: Election of Candidate(s)
  • TBA: Election results announced

Judicial Review Board Members

Name

Department

College

Email

Term Ends

Carrigan, Jacqueline

Sociology

SSIS

carrigan@csus.edu

2014

Paganelis, George

Library

LIB

paganelis@csus.edu

2014

Ferguson, Roxanne

Nursing

HHS

sac69327@csus.edu

2015

Lewis, Clare

Physical Therapy

HHS

lewisc@csus.edu

2015

Sobredo, James

Ethnic Studies

SSIS

sobredo@csus.edu

2015

Coughlin, Mimi

Undergraduate
Studies

EDU

coughlin@csus.edu 

2016

LeFebvre, Edith

Communication
Studies

A&L

eetl@csus.edu 

2016

Ritchey, James

Chemistry

NSM

ritchey@csus.edu

2016

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From the Constitution of the Faculty of California State University, Sacramento, (August 1, 2012):

ARTICLE III JUDICIARY

 

Section 1.        GENERAL.

The Judicial Review Board shall be a sub-unit of the faculty, constituted to decide disputes relating to the interpretation of the Constitution of this organization and By-Laws of the Faculty Senate. The departments, electing units, sub-units of the faculty, or combinations thereof, acting by a majority of the members of each, may seek its decision. Faculty members may also seek its decision by a petition containing the signatures of fifteen (15) members eligible to vote in the elections of this organization.

Section 2.        POWERS.

Rulings made by the Judicial Review Board shall be final and binding, unless (under the rules provided) appealed to and reversed by the faculty.

Section 3.        MEMBERSHIP.

A. Membership on the board shall be open to probationary and tenured instructional faculty and library faculty.

B. Membership on the Board shall not be open to members of other sub-units of the faculty.

C. The Board shall be composed of nine (9) members elected at-large. The Board shall determine its own method of paneling for hearings, but no hearings shall be conducted with fewer than three (3) Board members.

D. No more than four (4) members of the Board may be from the Library or the same school.

Section 4.       TERM OF OFFICE.

  1. Board members shall serve for a term of three (3) years, with terms so arranged that one-third of the membership of the Board shall be elected each year.
  2. A member who has served for six (6) consecutive years shall not be eligible for re-election to the Board until at least one (1) academic year has elapsed between the conclusion of his or her sixth consecutive year of service and the beginning of his or her next term.
  3. The membership of the Board shall be chosen by annual election only. If in any instance the office of a member becomes vacant between annual elections, it shall remain vacant until the next annual election.

Section 5.        RECALL.

A member of the Board may be removed from office by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of those voting in a recall election. A recall election shall be conducted within ten (10) instructional days following presentation to the Chair of the Faculty Senate of a recall petition signed by twenty-five (25) percent of the members of the faculty eligible to elect members of the Board. No member of the Board shall be subject to recall more than once in any academic year.