{"id":11421,"date":"2022-12-06T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11421"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:17:02","slug":"johnson-09-wins-vigo-superior-court-1-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2022\/12\/06\/johnson-09-wins-vigo-superior-court-1-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson \u201909 wins Vigo Superior Court 1 bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/Charles-Johnson-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/Charles-Johnson-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11423\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Charles Johnson <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Republican Charles Johnson \u201909 defeated fellow Wabash alumnus Democrat Noah Gambill \u201904 for the judgeship in Vigo County Superior Court Division 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When all votes were tallied, Johnson had logged 13,815 (51.75%) to Gambill\u2019s 12,880 (48.25%), according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribstar.com\/elections\/johson-will-take-the-bench-in-vigo-superior-court-1\/article_dfd52908-6065-11ed-8533-0ff84d6447ac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tribune-Star report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the election, both candidates thanked the other for having run a civil campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would like to also thank \u2018Noah for Judge\u2019 (Gambill). He ran a great campaign and I appreciate that we were able to compete civilly,\u201d Johnson wrote on his Facebook page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a good, clean campaign. Our race was always respectful and kind on the campaign trail,\u201d Gambill wrote about Johnson. \u201cHe is a gentleman and will serve the county well on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson has practiced law in both the criminal and civil fields and has worked in private practice, as an attorney for the state and as a deputy Vigo County prosecutor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He attended Wabash College and received his law degree from Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. While at Wabash, Johnson majored in history and was an independent. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Charles Johnson \u201909 defeated fellow Wabash alumnus Democrat Noah Gambill \u201904 for the judgeship in Vigo County Superior Court Division 1. When all votes were tallied, Johnson had logged 13,815 (51.75%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/Charles-Johnson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}