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Saturday, August 09, 2008
Ind. Courts - More on "Stop making judges run for office, Lake County commissioners argue"
Updating this ILB entry from Aug. 5th, Marisa Kwiatkowski of the NWI Times reports:
CROWN POINT | The Lake County Bar Association joined the call this week to convert four county courts to a merit-based system.Lake County is one of two counties in the state in which most superior court judges are nominated by a panel of lawyers and lay people and appointed to office by the governor. They face the voters every six years in nonpartisan retention referendums.
Lake County commissioners argue shifting the four judges who are still elected into a merit-based selection system would save taxpayers the expense of employing larger court staffs through patronage jobs.
The county bar association unanimously passed a resolution that favors the extension of merit-based selection to the county courts division.
The Indiana Legislature ultimately controls any changes to the process of selecting judges.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 9, 2008 08:02 AM
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