Eiswert, Sherbin seek Garrett bench seat
August 29, 2008
Garrett County, currently functioning without a district court judge, moved one step closer Friday afternoon to getting one.
Friday was the deadline for new applications for the seat that belonged to Judge Ralph M. Burnett before his death last May. Burnett was Garrett’s only district judge, so the rural county has gone without one for more than a year now. Garrett’s circuit court judge and the two district court judges in neighboring Allegany County have been picking up the slack.
The Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission that covers Western Maryland advertised the vacancy last year and received four applications, but they only deemed two of the candidates qualified enough to forward on to the governor.
After that, O’Malley said in an executive order that commissions have to give him at least three choices. The Western Maryland commission took a second look at the two candidates they originally rejected but again passed them over.
The commission readvertised the vacancy and now has two additional candidates to consider, Oakland lawyers Leonard J. Eiswert and Linda S. Sherbin.
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
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