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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Ind. Courts - "Five applicants have submitted their names to be considered for the new Monroe County judge position that will open on Jan. 1, 2008"
According to the story in the Bloomington Herald Times:
The applicants are all from Bloomington, and some applied for the most recent judicial opening back in 2005, for the court that came online in 2006.This year’s candidates are:
-- Donald Francis Jr., 43. Francis is in private practice with a focus on family law and is a judge pro tempore in Monroe Circuit Court.
-- Joby Jerrells, 40. Jerrells, a former deputy attorney general and Monroe County deputy prosecutor, is in private practice and assists with appellate work for the Indiana attorney general.
-- Valerie Haughton, 58. Haughton, a candidate for judge last year, is a former deputy Monroe County prosecutor and current deputy public defender.
-- Christine Haseman, 41. Haseman is in private practice, focusing on child advocacy, family law and estate planning.
-- Herb Kilmer, 60. Kilmer, a former Monroe County commissioner, is currently in private practice and teaches at Indiana University’s Law Enforcement Academy.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is expected to name the new judge sometime before the end of November, spokeswoman Jane Jankowski said. “Interviews will likely be sometime in October, and the goal is to have the new appointee selected by November,” Jankowski said.
The new judge is expected to oversee a mixture of small claims and domestic relations matters.
Kilmer and Haseman, along with five others, applied for the county’s last judicial opening in 2005.Frances Hill was appointed to that position and then survived a challenge by Haughton in the 2006 countywide election.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 27, 2007 01:18 PM
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