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DELEGATE JAMES: I think this time you are

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right.

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DELEGATE WILLONER; How about that! (Laughter)

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DELEGATE MARION: We considered and rejected

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an amendment which would have required that meetings of

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judicial nominating commissions be open to the public.

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We rejected that for what I think are good and sufficient

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reasons.

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If you were to provide as implementation of this

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section a piece of legislation, would you include the

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protection for those commissions in that legislation?

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DELEGATE WILLONER: Out of an abundance of caution,

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however, I think it falls in the same category, when you

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are discussing personnel matters, and you would go over a

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number of people and to be able to freely discuss a person's

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qualifications or disqualifications, those meetings must be

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secret.

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Once a decision has been reached on who is going

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to get the nominations, then any deliberations on those people

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should be open so that there can be a full exposure of

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those people who the Governor would have a choice to elect