46.3 Appointment of district judicial nominating commissioners.
1. The governor shall appoint five eligible electors of each judicial election district to the district judicial nominating commission.
2. The appointments made by the governor shall be to staggered terms of six years each and shall be made in the month of January for terms commencing February 1 of even-numbered years.
3. No more than a simple majority of the commissioners appointed shall be of the same gender.
4. Beginning with terms commencing February 1, 2012, there shall not be more than one appointed commissioner from a county within a judicial election district unless each county within the judicial election district has an appointed or elected commissioner or the number of appointed commissioners exceeds the number of counties within the judicial election district. This subsection shall not be used to remove an appointed commissioner from office prior to the expiration of the commissioner’s term.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §46.3]
87 Acts, ch 218, §3; 2011 Acts, ch 78, §1
Referred to in §602.11111
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