 The State Commission on Judicial Conduct chastized two justices and CBS's "60 Minutes" offered a story on lawyers who practice in the courts making large donations to campaigns.Hill championed reform of the partisan election of judges and argued that judges should be selected based on merit, similar to the system used at the federal level.In a news conference in August 1988, Hill announced that he was leaving the chief justice position with three years remaining in his six-year term.