1.   At present, judges usually appoint retired wardens or other correctional officers.

2.   Before that they were appointed by judges.

3.   A Cook County, Illinois, circuit court judge recently appointed a mediator in the suit, and has barred all principals from discussing the mediation.

4.   A judge appointed a lawyer andd a tax and financial manager.

5.   A judge must appoint an attorney for an indigent whose home is being forfeited.

6.   He drew attention earlier this year when a Superior Court judge appointed him to represent the fetus of a woman who was in jail for selling heroin.

7.   If a girl files a request without a lawyer, the judge must appoint one for her at state expense.

8.   If Hunter refuses to prosecute, the lawyer argued in an interview, the judge should appoint a special prosecutor.

9.   If the property is deemed unsanitary or unsafe, the judge can appoint a receiver with power to apply rent payments and borrow against the property to make repairs.

10.   If the work is not completed by the time Starr leaves the position, the federal judges could appoint a new head of the investigation.