Nonpartisan judicial commissions whose duty it shall be to nominate
and submit to the governor names of persons for appointment as provided by sections
25(a)–(g) are hereby established and shall be organized on the following basis: For vacancies
in the office of judge of the supreme court or of the court of appeals, there shall be
one such commission, to be known as “The Appellate Judicial Commission; for vacancies
in the office of circuit judge or associate circuit judge of any circuit court subject to
the provisions of sections 25(a)–(g) there shall be one such commission, to be known as
“The . . . Circuit Judicial Commission”, for each judicial circuit which shall be subject to
the provisions of sections 25(a)–(g); the appellate judicial commission shall consist of a
judge of the supreme court selected by the members of the supreme court, and the remaining
members shall be chosen in the following manner: The members of the bar of this
state residing in each court of appeals district shall elect one of their number to serve as a
member of said commission, and the governor shall appoint one citizen, not a member of
the bar, from among the residents of each court of appeals district, to serve as a member
of said commission, and the members of the commission shall select one of their number
to serve as chairman. Each circuit judicial commission shall consist of five members, one
of whom shall be the chief judge of the district of the court of appeals within which the
judicial circuit of such commission, or the major portion of the population of said circuit
is situated and the remaining four members shall be chosen in the following manner: The
members of the bar of this state residing in the judicial circuit of such commission shall
elect two of their number to serve as members of said commission, and the governor shall
appoint two citizens, not members of the bar, from among the residents of said judicial
circuit to serve as members of said commission, the members of the commission shall
select one of their number to serve as chairman; and the terms of office of the members of
such commission shall be fixed by law, but no law shall increase or diminish the term of
any member then in office. No member of any such commission other than a judge shall
hold any public office, and no member shall hold any official position in a political party.
Every such commission may act only by the concurrence of a majority of its members.
The members of such commission shall receive no salary or other compensation for their
services but they shall receive their necessary traveling and other expenses incurred while
actually engaged in the discharge of their official duties. All such commissions shall be
administered, and all elections provided for under this section shall be held and regulated,
under such rules as the supreme court shall promulgate.
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