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The document is an application form for certification as a Senior Judge by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission. It requires applicants to provide personal information, details of their judicial service, current legal practice, health status, and availability for service. The form also includes a certification section where applicants must affirm their eligibility based on specific criteria related to their past judicial experience and agree to comply with various conditions if certified.

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What does it mean when a judge takes senior status?

ing to Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond, senior status is essentially a form of self-retirement. Senior judges typically take on a reduced caseload, though not always. Federal judges who take senior status also create a vacancy for the current president to fill.

How do you become a senior judge?

Senior Judges Article III judges who have met age and service requirements set by federal statute are eligible to take senior status if they are at least 65 years old and have served at least 15 years on the bench, or any combination of age and years of service thereafter that equals 80.

What does senior judge status mean?

Senior judges, who must be at least 65 years old and have served for at least 15 years on the bench, can also decide the types of cases they handle. Some senior judges only take criminal, some senior judges only take civil, said Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.

What is senior status of Supreme Court justices?

In 1984, Congress modified this standard in favor of the so-called rule of 80. Under this rule, judges may assume senior status at age 65 provided they have served at least 15 years on the bench.

What is considered senior status?

The legal age of a senior is defined by the California Civil Code CIV 51.11. In this legal document it states Qualifying resident or senior citizen means a person 62 years of age or older, or 55 years of age or older in a senior citizen housing development.

What is a senior judge in Indiana?

A Senior Judge may act as a replacement when the regular judge is unavailable; as a complement when the regular judge is in trial, working on opinions, or fulfilling administrative duties; or as an assistant to oversee the processing of certain types of cases or court programs.

How much do Indiana judges get paid?

6. (a) The annual salary of each full-time judge of a circuit, superior, municipal, county, or probate court is one hundred ten thousand five hundred dollars ($110,500), as adjusted after June 30, 2006, under section 8.1 of this chapter, paid by the state.

Do senior status judges take clerks?

Each judge in active service employs a judicial assistant and up to four law clerks, while each judge in senior status employs a judicial assistant and one law clerk.

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