History Characters / JudgingAmy

-->I'm smart -- I went to freaking Harvard!

* WidowWoman: Maxine's husband and Amy's father passed away prior the show's beginning.

* ParentsAsPeople

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Amy regularly puts down unruly lawyers and the like in court. She often utterly destroys them with her disgust or contempt.
* [[SociallyAwkwardHero Socially Awkward Heroine]]: Amy, as lampshaded jokingly by David: "No, it's because you're crazy."
* {{Tsundere}}: Poor David...

* BrutalHonesty

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ParentsAsPeople

* CloudCuckooLander: So... Maxine's wedding isn't about herself and her fiance? It's about ''society'' and social statements?
* TheResenter: Has definite shades of this around the fifth season.

* PutOnABus
* TheBusCameBack

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LoveMakesYouCrazy
* TheResenter: Especially when Lily does not consider him at all as her replacement.

* TallDarkAndSnarky

* CloudCuckoolander

* HypercompetentSidekick
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Vincent.

* BeleagueredBureaucrat:
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a good boss who is willing to look the other way or bend the rules a little.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Maxine.

!!Recurring Characters

[[folder:Michael Cassidy]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnSlattery; Creator/RichardBurgi

[[folder:Zola Knox]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Kathryne Dora Brown

* HelloAttorney

[[folder:Lily Reddicker]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Kristin Lehman

* DefrostingIceQueen
* HospitalHottie
* PutOnABus: Takes a new job working at Sloan Kettering in New York.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

[[folder:Stu Collins]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ReedDiamond

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:After Amy leaves him at the altar in the 5th season, it is later revealed that Stu married a 22-year-old Polynesian woman that he met on the trip that was would've been their honeymoon.]]

[[folder:Heather Labonte]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sarah Danielle Madison

[[folder:David McClaren]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AdrianPasdar

* ByronicHero: Carries definite shades of this.
* PromotedToLoveInterest
* TallDarkAndHandsome
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jared Duff]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RichardCrenna
Maxine's former fiance.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Due to Richard Crenna's death from pancreatic cancer in January of 2003, his character's death in the 4th season was written as dying from a heart attack before he and Maxine planned to elope together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ignacio Messina]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' [[CreatorCheechAndChong Cheech Marin]]
Maxine's love interest from later seasons.

* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''landscape designer''. As opposed to a ''gardener''.
* NiceGuy
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Eric Black]]
!!'''Eric Black'''
->'''Played By''': Creator/BlakeBashoff

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: After Eric is found not guilty of stabbing Amy's stalker, Jason Lobdel in the 4th season, he decides to move to Canada with his boyfriend, Mark.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rob Holbrook]]
!!'''Rob Holbrook'''
->'''Played By''': Creator/JimParsons
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Crystal Turner]]
!!'''Crystal Turner'''
->'''Played By''': Creator/JenniferEsposito
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Graciela Reyes]]
!!'''Graciela Reyes'''
->'''Played By''': Creator/TaraCorreaMcMullen

* ParentalAbandonment: Graciela's mother took herself and Graciela's younger brothers to Guatemala, leaving Graciela in Connecticut with her aunt and cousins.
[[/folder]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kyle is PutOnTheBus to start training as a SWAT doctor and we never hear from him again.

%%* HypercompetentSidekick

* PutOnABus

%%* ParentsAsPeople

%% * [[SociallyAwkwardHero Socially Awkward Heroine]]: Amy, as lampshaded jokingly by David: "No, it's because you're crazy."
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Poor David...

%%* BrutalHonesty

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* ParentsAsPeople

%% * CloudCuckooLander: So... Maxine's wedding isn't about herself and her fiance? It's about ''society'' and social statements?
%% * TheResenter: Has definite shades of this around the fifth season.

%%* PutOnABus
%%* TheBusCameBack

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy
%% * TheResenter: Especially when Lily does not consider him at all as her replacement.

%%* TallDarkAndSnarky

%% * BeleagueredBureaucrat:
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

%% [[folder:Michael Cassidy]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnSlattery, Creator/RichardBurgi
%%[[/folder]]

%%[[folder:Zola Knox]]

%%* HelloAttorney
%%[[/folder]]

%% [[folder:Lily Reddicker]]

%%* DefrostingIceQueen
%%* HospitalHottie
%%* PutOnABus
%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
%% [[/folder]]

%% [[folder:Stu Collins]]

%% [[/folder]]

%% [[folder:Heather Labonte]]

%% [[/folder]]

%% [[folder:David McClaren]]

%% * ByronicHero: Carries definite shades of this.
%%* PromotedToLoveInterest
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome
%% [[/folder]]

%%* NiceGuy

[[folder:Amy]]

[[folder:Maxine]]

[[folder:Peter]]

[[folder:Gillian]]

[[folder:Vincent]]

[[folder:Lauren]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Marcus Giamatti

->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Futterman

->'''Portrayed by:''' Karle Warren

->'''Portrayed by:''' Jillian Armenante

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnSlattery, Richard Burgi

->'''Portrayed by:''' Jessica Tuck

%% * {{Adorkable}}: When she's flustered by the attention of the opposite sex... which leads her once to declare that she is done with men. ...it doesn't stick.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: As with her daughter, when flustered by the attention of the opposite sex.

%%* BlackBestFriend

* {{Adorkable}}: When she's flustered by the attention of the opposite sex... which leads her once to declare that she is done with men. ...it doesn't stick.
* BrainyBrunette:

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To the kids and parents whose fates she decides in court.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Amy employs these regularly in putting down unruly lawyers and the like in court.
* [[SociallyAwkwardHero Socially Awkward Heroine]]: Amy, as lampshaded jokingly by David: "No, it's because you're crazy."
* {{Tsundere}}: Poor David...

* {{Adorkable}}: As with her daughter, when flustered by the attention of the opposite sex.

%%* GoodIsNotNice

* CloudCuckooLander: So... Maxine's wedding isn't about herself and her fiance? It's about ''society'' and social statements?
* TheResenter: Has definite shades of this around the fifth season.

%%* LittleMissSnarker

* TheResenter: Especially when Lily does not consider him at all as her replacement.

* GeniusDitz: Oh so much.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Of the BeleagueredBureaucrat variety.

[[folder:Michael Cassidy]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zola Knox]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lily Reddicker, M.D.]]

[[folder:Stu Collins]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Heather Labonte]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:David McClaren]]
* ByronicHero: Carries definite shades of this.
%%* PromotedToLoveInterest
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ignacio Messina]]
* InsistentTerminology: Say it with him: ''landscape designer''. (As opposed to ''gardener''.)
%%* NiceGuy
[[/folder]]

* ParentsAsPeople

* BrutalHonesty
* GoodIsNotNice
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ParentsAsPeople

* PutOnABus
* TheBusCameBack

* LittleMissSnarker

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LoveMakesYouCrazy

* BlackBestFriend

* TallDarkAndSnarky

* HypercompetentSidekick

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* HelloAttorney

* DefrostingIceQueen
* HospitalHottie
* PutOnABus
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* PromotedToLoveInterest
* TallDarkAndHandsome

* NiceGuy

** TheBusCameBack

* HotDad

* HotMom