00-29, SUPERSEDES 91-97 IN RE: SENIOR JUDGE ASSIGNMENT - ORDERED 12/18/2000 BY J. PRESTON SILVERNAIL
EXCERPT: “The Chief Justice, by memorandum, outlined the procedure authorizing Chief Judges to assign senior judges to individual circuits. The Judges of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, by majority vote, directed the Chief Judge to apply the priorities identified by the Chief Justice for assignment of senior judges.
Apart from the criteria for the assignment of senior judges, Chief Justice urges that senior judges are not used in lengthy or complex cases that will likely remain in the system for a long period of time or the use of a senior judge for short-term absences for active judges.
The use of senior judges for vacations is strongly discouraged in the instances where an active Judge may not reasonably be assigned. IT IS ORDERED that senior judges are to be used in
accordance with the following priorities: (Open AO for more information.)”
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