Janet Stumbo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Janet Stumbo
Occupation	Judge
Date Of Birth	Oct 21, 1954(1954-10-21)
Age	70
Birthplace	Prestonsburg
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Libra

Janet Stumbo Biography

Janet Stumbo is one of the most popular and richest Judge who was born on October 21, 1954 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, United States. Janet Stumbo was a Prestonsburg, Kentucky, native. Charles Stumbo was her father and a hospital official. She is a distant relative of Greg Stumbo, the Kentucky Speaker of House, and Grady Stumbo (a former Kentucky gubernatorial hopeful).

Grady Stumbo endorsed Sturgill in an ad that was released in September. He said, “It’s getting to the message out that [Janet Stumbo] not all Stumbos support [Janet Stumbo]”, referring to him and former State Representative Greg Stumbo. Sturgill suggested that Stumbo won because voters mistook her for Grady Stumbo’s spouse Jan. Sturgill stated that Stumbo should use her husband’s last name and that Stumbo should use his man’s name. People should know that she is not a Stumbo legally. She is Ned Pillersdorf’s wife. Janet Stumbo described Sturgill’s suggestion as “just about the most crazy thing I’ve ever heard” and added, “This is 1980s.” Modern women have their own identities and I don’t see any reason to change my name just because my marital status has changed.

Stumbo married Ned Pillersdorf in 1984; they have three daughters – Sarah, Nancee and Samantha. Because she was already part of a law firm that incorporated her maiden name, Stumbo chose not to take her husband’s surname after their marriage.

In the general election, Stumbo garnered 46,895 to Sturgill’s 41,973. As a result of her win, Stumbo became the second woman to serve on the court, and the first to be elected to the court without first having been appointed. She took the oath of office on December 1, 1989. The partial term to which she was elected expired at the end of 1991. She was unopposed for election to a full, eight-year term. The Lexington Herald-Leader wrote that Stumbo generally sided with consumers and workers against businesses and with defendants in criminal law cases, but noted that there were exceptions. In what the paper called “her most criticized ruling”, she found that, under a literal reading of Kentucky law, a litigant who had been injured in an automobile accident could not collect damages unless there was a court ruling that found the other driver in the accident to be negligent. The Kentucky Supreme Court reversed this decision, saying Stumbo should have considered the legislature’s intent. Stumbo also halted refund payments ordered by a lower court in a finding against Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) in a rate dispute, saying the court had no power to set utility rates. She returned the case to the Public Service Commission, but also scolded two of the commissioners for secretly meeting with LG&E about the settlement terms.

After graduating, Stumbo enrolled at Morehead State University in the art major. However, she eventually earned a bachelor’s in literature and linguistics from Morehead State University in 1976. After completing one year of graduate studies at the University of Kentucky, she was accepted to the College of Law. She earned a juris doctor there in 1980. As a staff attorney to Harris Howard, an appellate court judge, she began her legal career. She joined Turner, Hall & Stumbo, a Floyd County law firm, in 1982. She was a specialist in workers’ compensation, divorce, federal black lung claims, personal injury cases, and workers’ compensation. Arnold Turner was one of the founding partners. Stumbo was his assistant from 1982 through 1986. She joined the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky’s board of directors in

1983. This fund provides legal services to the poor people of Eastern Kentucky. She was elected chair of the board in 1989, a position she held until 1989. She joined her husband at Stumbo DeRossett & Pillersdorf in 1989.

Janet Stumbo Net Worth

Janet Stumbo is one of the richest Judge from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Janet Stumbo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Janet Lynn Stumbo, born October 21, 1954, is a former associate judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. She was the second woman ever to serve on that court. She was the first woman elected to the Kentucky Supreme Court from 1993 to 2004 as an associate justice.

During Stumbo’s childhood, the family relocated to Floyd County, leaving behind a home in Left Beaver Creek. Charles was a McDowell Appalachian Regional hospital worker. Janet was 10 when her family moved to Williamson (West Virginia) where Charles began work at Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital, South Williamson, Kentucky. Janet went to grade school in West Virginia. However, the family moved to South Williamson and Janet graduated in 1972 from Belfry High School.

Stumbo graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1980 and spent nearly a decade practicing law before making her first bid for public office in a special election for a seat on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. During the race, she was criticized for not taking the surname of her husband, but running instead under her maiden name of Stumbo, which is well-recognized in Eastern Kentucky, due to the political careers of former Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo and former gubernatorial candidate Grady Stumbo, both distant relatives. Stumbo won election to the court, but the issue of her last name would continue to be raised in most of her future campaigns. Typically seen as a consumer- and defendant-friendly judge, she was re-elected to the court without opposition in 1991. In 1993, she was elected to the Kentucky Supreme Court, defeating two opponents, including Sara W. Combs, who had become the court’s first female justice via an interim appointment by Governor Brereton Jones months earlier.

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Stumbo was re-elected without opposition to a full, eight-year term in 1996. While on the court, Chief Justice Robert F. Stephens appointed her chair of the Family Court Consortium, which carried out a successful family court pilot project. As a result of the pilot, the Kentucky Constitution was amended to create a statewide family court system. Stumbo also chaired the Civil Rules Committee during her time on the court. The Lexington Herald-Leader noted that early in Stumbo’s career, she shared some of the “libertarian” views as Dan Jack Combs, the justice she replaced on the court. In her last five years on the court, however, she voted to overturn convictions 62% of the time, and became known as the court’s most liberal justice.

Facts & Trivia

Janet Ranked on the list of most popular Judge. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Janet Stumbo celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.

Stumbo was inducted into the University of Kentucky College of Law Alumni Hall of Fame in 1999. She received an honorary doctor of public service degree from Morehead State University in 2000.