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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Ind. Courts - Local judges

[Slowly catching up here since I was in a "dial-up only" part of the country for much of last week.]

"Four apply to serve as judge for county's sixth Superior Court" was the headline to this story in the Terre Haute Tribune-Star that begins:

Four Vigo County lawyers have applied to serve as judge for the county's new sixth Superior Court, said Brad Rateike, a spokesman for Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Candidates are Christopher J. Dailey, 42, in private practice; Michael J. Lewis, 41, who serves as Terre Haute City Court judge and Title IV-D commissioner; Raeanna Moore, 39, a lawyer in the Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom law firm; and James R. Walker, 52, chief deputy in the Vigo County Prosecutor's Office.

The governor's office received applications until Wednesday.

The general counsel's office for the governor will schedule interviews of the applicants, Rateike said, and make a recommendation to the governor.

Daniels expects to name a judge by mid- to late November. The court will open Jan. 1, 2006. The appointed judge would have to seek election in 2006 for the office. A Superior Court judge is elected for a six-year term.

"Deputy prosecutor appointed as Carroll County judge" was the headline to this AP story early last week:
Gov. Mitch Daniels appointed Donald Currie, chief deputy prosecutor of Carroll County, as a judge of the Carroll Circuit Court on Tuesday.

Currie, in his sixth year as chief deputy prosecutor in the county northeast of Lafayette, will succeed Judge Joseph Carey, who is resigning effective Oct. 1.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 25, 2005 02:04 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts