A panel that recommends nominees for North Dakota’s Supreme Court docket is accepting purposes for a retiring justice’s seat.
The Judicial Nominating Committee’s software interval started this week. The panel will advocate nominees to Gov. Doug Burgum, who will make an appointment for the seat held by retiring Justice Gerald VandeWalle.
VandeWalle, 89, has served on the courtroom since August 1978. He informed Burgum final week of his intent to retire, citing well being challenges that embrace nerve, eye and coronary heart points.
He plans to retire Jan. 31 from the five-member courtroom. VandeWalle was chief justice from 1993-2019, when he stepped again as a consequence of declining power.
Committee Secretary Tony Weiler stated he expects a number of curiosity within the appointment. Potential candidates may embrace state district courtroom judges, veteran attorneys, and attorneys who’ve curiosity within the courtroom’s work, he stated.
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Extra data on the appliance course of is at bit.ly/3UW2YWy. The method will unfold amid the vacation season and the early weeks of the 2023 legislative session. The deadline to use is Dec. 2.
The appointee will serve till 2026, when she or he should run for election for an eight-year time period.
The annual wage of a justice is $169,162.
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