The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission will conduct interviews in December for applicants for the Court of Appeals vacancy created by Judge Robert D. Rucker's appointment to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard announced today. The first round of interviews will be held in Indianapolis in the Supreme Court Conference Room in the Indiana State House on December 7-8, 1999. A smaller group of applicants will be called back for a second round of interviews on December 14, 1999.
All interviews are open to the public.
A Court of Appeals candidate must have been an Indiana attorney for ten years or a trial judge for five years and must live in the Third Judicial District. On December 14, the Commission will send a panel of three names to Gov. Frank L. O'Bannon. He will have 60 days to select the next judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.