A group that will help select Douglas County's new judge voted Friday to interview all eight candidates who have applied.
The 7th Judicial District nominating commission will interview the candidates starting Dec. 3. At the end of the interview process, the commission will forward two or three names to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
One of the commission members, Louie McElhaney, moved Friday that the group interview only four of the candidates, but no one seconded the motion. The group ultimately voted 4-2 to interview everyone who turned in a resume.
The candidates are John C. Chappell, Mary Dee Curtis, Jim George, Peggy Kittel, Timothy Riling, Stephen Six, M.J. Willoughby and Kenneth Warner.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Gernon is the nonvoting chairman of the nominating commission. Other members include three nonattorneys -- McElhaney, Milton Scott and Judith W. Anderson -- and three attorneys: Suzanne Valdez Carey, John W. Nitcher and Janine A. Cox.
The Legislature created a new judicial district in Douglas County this year because of a growing caseload. But the new seat means Douglas County will stop funding a judge pro tem position, created in 2001 to help with the caseload, that's currently filled by Kittel.
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