{"id":32550,"date":"2013-11-18T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32550"},"modified":"2013-11-18T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:11:10","slug":"gov-appointment-to-n-d-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32550","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Appointment To N.D. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FairMcEvers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32551\" alt=\"FairMcEvers\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FairMcEvers.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK (csI) \u2013 Gov. Jack Dalrymple announced Monday the appointment of District Judge Lisa Fair McEvers to the North Dakota Supreme Court. McEvers will replace Justice Mary Muehlen Maring who will retire in December after more than 17 years of service on the state\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cJudge McEvers brings a wealth of experience to the position of Supreme Court justice, experience that includes private practice litigation, trying criminal cases before a jury and presiding over civil and criminal cases as a judge,\u201d Dalrymple said. \u201cShe has a proven track record of success at every position she has accepted, including her service as a District Judge and North Dakota Commissioner of Labor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI congratulate Justice Maring on her outstanding service on the Supreme Court and I also want to thank the candidates who were recommended for consideration by the Judicial Nominating Committee. They are all dedicated and highly qualified members of North Dakota\u2019s legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A district court judge since September 2010, McEvers presides over civil and criminal cases. Prior to serving on the bench in Fargo, McEvers was appointed North Dakota Labor Commissioner in 2005.\u00a0\u00a0 As Labor Commissioner, McEvers enforced the state\u2019s wage and hour laws and well as discrimination laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI am honored and grateful to be named to the Supreme Court by Gov. Dalrymple and I look forward to continuing the outstanding work of the state\u2019s highest court,\u201d McEvers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Between 2001 and 2005, McEvers served as an assistant state\u2019s attorney in Cass County where she prosecuted a wide range of criminal offenses in district court, juvenile court and in drug courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to becoming a prosecutor, McEvers worked in a Fargo law firm where she primarily practiced business law and became a partner in less than two years.\u00a0 After graduating from law school, McEvers served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Neumann.\u00a0 A Minto, N.D., native, McEvers earned a Juris Doctor degree with distinction from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McEvers will become the state\u2019s fourth woman justice, following justices Beryl Levine, Maring and Carol Kapsner. She will fill Justice Maring\u2019s unexpired term until the 2016 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK (csI) \u2013 Gov. Jack Dalrymple announced Monday the appointment of District Judge Lisa Fair McEvers to the North Dakota Supreme Court. McEvers will replace Justice Mary Muehlen Maring who will retire in December after more than 17 years of service on the state\u2019s highest court. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cJudge McEvers brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32554,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32550\/revisions\/32554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}