The Student Judiciary voted unanimously to elect Shirel Guez '12 as chief justice, according to Union Judiciary members in both emails and in interviews with the Justice.

Guez, who served as vice president, said that she will have a "nice" transition to the chief justice position. Currently, there are four other Justices on the SJ.

According to SJ member John Fonte '12 in an email to the Justice, Guez is the only SJ member with previous experience and wrote that for that reason Guez that "deserve[d] to be elected as Chief Justice." In a phone interview with the Justice, SJ member Gali Gordon '15 said that Guez had a "very impressive track record."

Guez said that as chief justice, she looks forward to staying involved with SJ and continuing to enforce the Constitution. In addition, Guez said she also aims to examine the Constitution and work with the Union to find ways to clarify the wording.

In particular, Guez said she would like to alter language concerning the roles of the "abstain" and "skip" options in voting, as well as language about student eligibility to run for office.

"There's a lot of ambiguity about who can run for positions," said Guez. She said that students have expressed confusion regarding senior and junior representative posts and whether students of certain years may run for them.

Currently, the constitution does not specify differences between senior and junior representative positions or dictate if certain seats are only open to underclassmen or upperclassmen.

In addition, Guez said she anticipates working with members of the Union and reaching out to the Brandeis community.

"I'm excited," said Guez. "I think this will be a good year."

—Sara Dejene