Valley City  (CSi)  The SE  Judicial Dist Judgeship Number 2 will remain in Valley City.

The  North Dakota State Supreme Court states “The elimination or transfer of Judgeship No. 2 would present challenges to scheduling and require the remaining judges in the Southeast Judicial District to assume an increased caseload and increase travel time in the district.  Although the growing population and caseload in the East Central Judicial District demonstrates a clear need for additional judicial officers, moving this judgeship would create a shortage and make it difficult to provide effective judicial services to residents in that district.”

The Southeast Judicial District includes fourteen counties:  Barnes, Dickey, Eddy, Foster, Griggs, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Ransom, Richland, Sargent, Stutsman, and Wells.

The district has seven judges: One judge chambered in Ellendale, one in New Rockford, one in Wahpeton, two in Jamestown, and two in Valley City.