{"id":2553,"date":"2015-03-30T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2015-03-30T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:14:13","slug":"honor-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/honor-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Council Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sent on behalf of Lauren Winchell, Chief Justice of the Honor Council:<\/p>\n<p>Dear 1Ls and 2Ls:<\/p>\n<p>Honor Council elections are just around the corner! \u00a0This is a nomination process, not a campaign process. Keep in mind the\u00a0seriousness and great honor of this position.\u00a0\u00a0Please review the Honor Code, Section 21 of the Academic Regulations found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/law\/components\/Academic%20Regs%20-%20Revised%20%20Updated%20through%20May%202014.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 1 &amp; April 2\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Nominate a member of your class (it can be yourself) into the ballot box in the lobby next to SBA elections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominees will be vetted by the administration and will be notified by email of their nomination to either accept or deny the nomination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>April 8th \u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Mandatory 12:00 lunch meeting with the current Honor Council for all nominees who accept their nomination. \u00a0Following the meeting, each nominee is required to write a personal statement and email it Lauren Winchell (<a href=\"mailto:ldsprlck@memphis.edu\">ldsprlck@memphis.edu<\/a>) by 5 pm on April 9th. The personal statements will be posted onto the On Legal Grounds blog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you do not attend the meeting, we will assume that you are not accepting your nomination.<\/li>\n<li>If you notify Lauren Winchell at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ldsprlck@memphis.edu\">ldsprlck@memphis.edu<\/a>prior to the meeting with a valid excuse for missing the meeting, your nomination position will be held.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>April 14th, 15th, &amp; 16th\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Voting by class and section.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2Ls will cast three votes<\/li>\n<li>1Ls will cast five votes<\/li>\n<li>Nominee who receives the most votes from the 1L class will serve as\u00a0<strong>Secretary\u00a0<\/strong>during the 2015-2016 school year and\u00a0<strong>Chief Justice<\/strong>\u00a0during the 2016-2017 school year<\/li>\n<li>Nominee who receives the second most votes from the 1L class will serve as the\u00a0<strong>Associate Chief Justice <\/strong>during\u00a0the 2016-2017 school year.<\/li>\n<li>Nominee who receives the third most votes from the 1L class will serve as a\u00a0<strong>Student Justice <\/strong>during the 2016-2017 school year.<\/li>\n<li>The three nominees who receive the most votes from the 2L class will be seated on the Honor Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent on behalf of Lauren Winchell, Chief Justice of the Honor Council: Dear 1Ls and 2Ls: Honor Council elections are just&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs","category-honor-council"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}