A Kentucky judge who raised moral objections to handling adoption cases involving same-sex couples has quit the bench, but he still received a rebuke from a judicial disciplinary commission.
Former Judge W. Mitchell Nance was publicly reprimanded Tuesday (12/19) by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission. The commission said that was the only sanction available due to Nance’s previously announced retirement, which took effect last Saturday (12/16).
Nance offered no defense last week at a disciplinary hearing. Neither he nor his attorney attended.
Civil rights advocates had urged Nance’s ouster after he declared that “under no circumstance” would a child’s adoption by same-sex couples be in the youngster’s best interest.
Nance heard family court cases in Barren and Metcalfe counties.
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