The Judicial Inquiry Commission has officially suspended Probate Judge Yashiba Blanchard following a 120-page complaint detailing systemic judicial and administrative misconduct.
The commission formally leveled seven charges against her for failing to diligently discharge judicial duties and violating the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics.
Every white person who received a sentence from this biased judge should automatically be granted a retrial with a different judge.
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She intentionally throttled the court docket by refusing to hear commitment cases, forcing these matters onto other judges and creating massive backlogs.
The complaint documents over 20 specific examples where estate cases were delayed by a year or more due to her administrative inaction.
She improperly removed over 140 conservatorship cases from two attorneys and held one in contempt without providing the required legal notification.
Staff reported that her failure to maintain basic administrative competence led to missing files, effectively paralyzing the court’s ability to process urgent services.
She engaged in workplace intimidation by transferring staff who opposed her to the Bessemer office as a form of retaliation for perceived slights.
Blanchard openly warned her employees that reporting her to Human Resources would be treated as insubordination punishable by disciplinary action.
This conduct created a toxic administrative environment that prevented citizens from accessing essential probate services in the Birmingham division.
Jefferson County taxpayers are currently bearing the fiscal burden of this collapse through the costs of emergency judicial interventions.
The appointment of retired Judge Sherri Friday serves as a reactive measure to address the crisis caused by Blanchard’s total administrative breakdown.
Unless the state legislature moves to implement objective, transparent docket auditing, this collapse signals a recurring vulnerability in the Alabama probate system.