Who are the "good" judges in this election?

“I never know how to vote on judges, so I just don’t,” is a familiar comment at election time. Irked, I resolved to get the goods on ‘em this time. Seems the Spring Valley’s Zion Community Church beat me to it. They had already selected their candidates for judges back in December [1]. Searching further, I found a slate of five candidates endorsed by the SD Republican Party [2]. Some of the names on the GOP list matched those of the church. So I thought I was making progress.

Then I found a list of three candidates endorsed by the SD Democratic Party [3] - Judges Robert Longstreth, Lantz Lewis...