<p>hey im sorry to start up a new thread, but after about an hour of search I give up</p>
<p>Im a 1st year pol sci major with hopes of making it to law school
my goal in life is to become a judge </p>
<p>my problem is that I really have no idea how to get there what are my options the diff types of judges and the $$$ factor would be nice to know as well</p>
<p>any and all info will be gratelly apriciated</p>
<p>wow thatks for all of those who answered</p>
<p>Haha, are your snide remarks targeted at every singlke member of CC?</p>
<p>I don't understand what's so hard to figure out. You go to law school --> work in the law field for a period of time, make friends-- lots of friends --> run for judge. Obviously the pay isn't going to be as great as corporate law but you'll be in a position of respect and power. </p>
<p>Why don't you bother doing research on this? Try to find different prominent federal judges and look up their backgrounds. There's no clear cut method for becoming a judge.</p>
<p>It's been said that the best route to becoming a judge is to room with a future governor in law school. </p>
<p>A fairly typical route to becoming a judge is to be politically active, and work in a district attorney's office for a number of years.</p>
<p>The median annual salary for a chief justice of a state Supreme Court in 2003 was $127,000, about what a first-year associate makes at a big law firm, exclusive of bonus; for a state appellate court justice, the median annual wage was $119,000; for a state trial judge, $110,000. In 2004, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court was paid $203,000; Associate Justices were paid $194,000, and District Court judges were paid $158,000.</p>
<p>The median wage for all salaried lawyers in the US is about $110,000.</p>
<p>I had a real estate law professor who didn't want to be a judge because he said u have to be a politician first.</p>
<p>I know two judges personally and both of them were DAs who were later appointed to be judges. I would say your best bet for becoming a judge is to go to law school, get a job on the government side of law, and either run or hope to be appointed, depending on where you live.</p>
<p>you are a freshman in college and you gave up on researching for an hour? that's weak.</p>
<p>c'mon, sreis, it's admirable that the poster actually tried to look and didn't just start another thread which has been done a thousand and one times.</p>
<p>"any and all info will be gratelly apriciated"</p>
<p>...real admirable. this poster is not serious. this is a farce, and you've been had.</p>
<p>Eh, whatever, maybe we helped some genuine person out, if the op is fake.</p>
<p>Indeed, as DRab suggests, even if the OP will not benefit from the discussion, someone else might. Besides, where is your Holiday spirt?</p>
<p>CD</p>