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Warren County Circuit Judge Won't Seek Re-election Following Cancer Diagnosis

A Warren County Circuit Court Judge is taking a medical leave after being diagnosed with a reoccurrence of cancer.

Judge Margaret Huddleston says she will start chemotherapy immediately with a goal of returning to the bench by the first of 2014. She will not seek another eight-year term on the bench after her current term is completed.

Judge Huddleston was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2003. Following ten years of remission, doctors recently determined that the cancer had metastasized in her lungs.

Huddleston has presided over the Warren County Circuit Family Court, Division III, since being appointed to the bench by then-Governor Paul Patton in 1998. She won election to the bench in 1999 and was re-elected in 2007.

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