District Court in Northeastern Minnesota selects new leader

DULUTH — Choose Leslie Beiers has been elected to function chief decide of Minnesota’s sixth Judicial District by her fellow district courtroom judges.

Choose Rachel Sullivan was elected this week as assistant chief decide. Each will start serving two-year phrases July 1, a information launch mentioned Wednesday.

Beiers was appointed to the bench in June 2014. She is a graduate of the College of North Dakota, incomes her authorized diploma there.

“I’m honored and humbled to step into this new function,” she mentioned in a press release. “The Minnesota Judicial Department and the sixth Judicial District are at a time of transformative change as we incorporate the constructive classes discovered through the pandemic into our day by day work.”

By statute, the chief decide of a judicial district “workouts basic administrative authority over the courts throughout the district, together with assigning judges to serve in places all through the district,” the information launch mentioned. The chief decide of every judicial district additionally serves as a member of the Minnesota Judicial Council, the executive policy-making authority for the Minnesota Judicial Department.

Earlier than her appointment to the bench, Beiers spent 29 years as assistant St. Louis County legal professional, and workers legal professional for Authorized Support of Northeastern Minnesota. Choose Beiers is chambered within the St. Louis County Courthouse in Duluth.

“I sit up for collaborating with each my colleagues on the bench and the wonderful workers of the sixth Judicial District as we proceed our work to make sure equity and equal entry to justice for the residents of St. Louis, Prepare dinner, Lake and Carlton counties,” Beiers mentioned.

Sullivan was first appointed to the bench in 2018. She graduated from Boston College, and earned her authorized diploma from Mitchell Hamline Faculty of Legislation in St. Paul. Her chambers are positioned within the St. Louis County Courthouse in Hibbing.

No decide might function chief decide or assistant chief decide for greater than two consecutive two-year phrases.