15th JNC seeks judicial applications
The 15th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission announces one vacancy for a circuit court judge position, created by the resignation of Judge Moses Baker, Jr. The Judicial Nominating Commission has been asked to provide Gov. Rick Scott with nominees.
Qualifications of applicants:
Before assuming the office of circuit court judge, an applicant must be able to fulfill the constitutional qualifications, which require the person to be a member in good standing of The Florida Bar for the preceding five years, a resident of the 15th Judicial Circuit, and a registered voter in the state of Florida.
Instructions for submission:
● The current Judicial Application form must be used. It can be downloaded in Word version from The Florida Bar’s website. Applicants should ensure they are using the correct and current form.
● The completed application must be typed and bound. The application must include a photograph.
● In addition to the original application, applicants must provide the following: (i) three copies of the completed application, (ii) one redacted copy of the application excluding all exempt information under Chapter 119 of the Florida Statutes or other applicable public records law and (iii) an electronic copy of the application on nine individual flash drives in PDF format with the applicant’s name on the exterior of the flash drives. The PDF of the application must be a single file not to exceed 8 MB. No other attachments or files are to be included on the flash drives. All printed copies should be two-sided.
● Applications. The deadline for submission of the completed application is 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. The completed application, copies and flash drives must be delivered to Palm Beach County Bar Association, 1507 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, Florida. Please ensure the application is complete, including all required responses (including references, case style and contact information regarding recent cases, and class standing and degree information regarding education), and all required attachments (writing sample, financial disclosure, photograph). Incomplete applications may not be considered.
● Interviews. The JNC has not determined the date for any interviews, but if any interviews are conducted they probably will be in mid-December. Applicants should check with the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s website ( www.palmbeachbar.org ) for information as to date and time of any interviews.
Additional information:
After the deadline for submitting applications, the commission will publish on the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s website ( www.palmbeachbar.org ) the date, time and location of any interviews that the JNC chooses to conduct. Any interviews will be done in person; no telephonic interviews will be scheduled.
All proceedings of the commission are open to the public, except for deliberations. Applicants should not expect their applications to be kept confidential. If an applicant is nominated, all materials attached to the original application will be submitted to the governor.
A list of members of the Fifteenth Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission is available from The Florida Bar’s website at www.floridabar.org.
Members of the bench, the Bar and the public are urged to contact the members of the commission concerning applicants for judicial positions.
If you have any questions, please call Gregor J. Schwinghammer at (561) 650-0595, or email at [email protected].
