Wendy Enochs: Not stepping down
Dispel this courthouse rumor:
If Robert Enochs is elected to the District Court bench next month, his wife, longtime Judge Wendy Enochs, will resign to be a stay-at-home mom.
Not true, Wendy Enochs told me today.
She wants to stay on the bench for as long as the voters elect her, she said.
She was re-elected (without opposition) to her fourth four-year term in 2006.
Judge Enochs says she's heard the rumor but doesn't know its origin.
Maybe politics? Wendy Enochs is considered one of the best judges on the Guilford County District Court bench. Maybe voters would be reluctant to elect her husband if they thought it meant losing her.
Robert Enochs is an assistant district attorney who ran for judge once before, unsuccessfully.
This time, both he and Angela Foster finished ahead of Judge Linda Falls in the May primary. Voters will choose between Robert Enochs and Foster in the general election. (We'll offer our recommendation next week.)
Would it be a conflict of interest for a husband and wife to both serve on the bench? I can't really think of how unless one were in a position to overrule the other. But that would be more likely if one were a Superior Court or appellate court judge. They would serve as equals on the District Court bench
Really, voters simply should weigh the qualifications of the two candidates in this race without consideration of who's married to whom.
And throw out the idea that Wendy Enochs plans to resign. She says absolutely not.
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