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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Ind. Courts - Interviews Friday for the upcoming vacancy on the St. Joseph Superior Court

Elkhart's WFRN is reporting this afternoon:

Indiana's Judicial Nominating Commission will interview eight candidates this week for a South Bend judgeship. St. Joseph Superior Judge William Albright is retiring at the end of the month. The state commission will send three names to Governor Mitch Daniels, who will pick one as Albright's replacement.
Actually, that is incorrect. The state judicial nominating commission is not involved.

Here is the release from the Indiana Supreme Court website:

PUBLIC INTERVIEWS TO BE HELD FOR ST. JOSEPH SUPERIOR COURT VACANCY

The St. Joseph Superior Court Judicial Nominating Commission will interview candidates for the upcoming vacancy on the St. Joseph Superior Court on Friday, September 8, 2006. The interviews will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the conference room of the St. Joseph Circuit Court, Second Floor, County Courthouse, South Bend, Indiana.

An interview schedule will be posted on the door of the Conference Room on the day of the interviews. At the conclusion of the interviews, the Commission will deliberate in executive session.

Following the executive session, the Commission will reconvene in the Conference Room for a public vote on the nominees whose names will be submitted to the Governor for his consideration and appointment.

More details about judicial selection in Indiana can be found on the American Judicature Society website, which has a page on the subject. Re the court in question, it states:
The nominating commission for the superior court of St. Joseph County consists of seven members: a judge of the supreme court or court of appeals appointed by the governor; three lawyers elected by bar members in the county, and three nonlawyers appointed by a selection commission made up of the St. Joseph circuit court judge, the president of the St. Joseph County board of commissioners, and the mayors of St. Joseph County's two largest cities. No more than two lawyer members, and no more than four commission members, may belong to the same political party. Commission members serve four-year terms.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 5, 2006 04:25 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts