Kenya Lavender Marshall, would-be Jefferson County judge, has law ...
"If she is not a licensed lawyer, she cannot be a judge," said Circuit Judge Scott Vowell, Jefferson County's presiding judge. Kenya Lavender Marshall has been temporarily suspended from practicing law amid charges that she personally spent some $30,000 of a client's money, which could scuttle her plan to become a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge . . The disciplinary... Alabama Democratic Party chairman Joe Turnham said the party would look into the bar suspension and Marshall's response before deciding Marshall, 35, is accused of using the client's money to write nearly $12,000 in checks to herself, spend over $1,000 at clothing stores and pay her bills --- including office rent....