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Monday, March 05, 2007
Ind. Courts - Executive director of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners to retire
A press release from the Supreme Court today begins:
Mary Place Godsey, the longtime executive director of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners and a national leader in the field of bar admissions and lawyer testing, will direct her final bar exam this July and then complete her career with the Indiana Supreme Court's Board of Law Examiners, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard announced today.Ms. Godsey began her career with the appellate courts in a position formerly called the Secretary to Court for the Appellate Court. Later she worked as a secretary for former Chief Justice Norman Arterburn and started law school. After Chief Justice Aterburn retired, she served as a secretary and as a law clerk for former Justice Alfred Pivarnik until 1982, when she began at the Board of Law Examiners as the first attorney to be named executive director.
“Mary Godsey has been a marvelous rock of stability and character amid the ever changing challenges facing attorney testing and accreditation. In Indiana her impact has been wide-ranging. I would estimate that the bar exam applications of well over half of Indiana 's attorneys came under Mary's careful and deliberate scrutiny. Our state's legal profession does a better job for the people it serves because she has dedicated her career to that goal," said Chief Justice Shepard.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 5, 2007 01:16 PM
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