Indiana § 33-27-2-2 Attorney commissioners; electors and elections; residency; term;
vacancy

Indiana Statutes

§ 33-27-2-2 — Attorney commissioners; electors and elections; residency; term; vacancy

Indiana·Art. 27 JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION·Ch. 2 Commissioners, Employees, and Staff

(a)For purposes of electing attorney members to the judicial nominating commission, the state shall be divided into three (3) districts, corresponding to the First District, the Second District, and the Third District of the court of appeals.

(b)The qualified electors consist of the individuals who are registered with the clerk of the supreme court as attorneys in good standing under the requirements of the supreme court.

(c)The electors of each district shall elect one (1) resident of their district who is admitted to the practice of law in Indiana to the judicial nominating commission. The term of office of each elected member is three (3) years, beginning on the first day of January following the election. During the month before the expiration of an elected member's term of office,

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(a) For purposes of electing attorney members
to the judicial nominating commission, the state shall be divided into
three (3) districts, corresponding to the First District, the Second
District, and the Third District of the court of appeals.
(b) The qualified electors consist of the individuals who are
registered with the clerk of the supreme court as attorneys in good
standing under the requirements of the supreme court.
(c) The electors of each district shall elect one (1) resident of their
district who is admitted to the practice of law in Indiana to the judicial
nominating commission. The term of office of each elected member is
three (3) years, beginning on the first day of January following the
election. During the month before the expiration of an elected
member's term of office, an election shall be held to fill the succeeding
three (3) year term of office. Attorney commissioners on the
commission must reside for the term of their office in the district from
which they were elected. An attorney commissioner is considered to
have resigned the position if the residency of the attorney
commissioner changes from the court of appeals district for which the
attorney commissioner was elected.
(d) Except when a term of office has less than ninety (90) days
remaining, vacancies in the office of an attorney commissioner to the
judicial nominating commission shall be filled for the unexpired term
of the member creating the vacancy by a special election. An attorney
commissioner who is elected to fill an unexpired term shall commence
the attorney commissioner's duties immediately upon the certification
of the new attorney commissioner's election to the secretary of state.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-2.1-4-2.]

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