SOUTH BEND â After months of legal hang-ups, St. Joseph County will soon have a new Superior Court judge.
Stephanie Steele, currently an attorney for the city of South Bend, was appointed by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb last week to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Jane Woodward Miller at the end of last year.
Steele earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Arizona State University, according to a release from the governorâs office. Steele was a deputy county prosecutor from 2010 to 2015 and has worked as an attorney for South Bend since then.
SOUTH BEND â After months of legal hang-ups, St. Joseph County will soon have a new Superior Court judge.
Stephanie Steele, currently an attorney for the city of South Bend, was appointed by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb last week to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Jane Woodward Miller at the end of last year.
Steele earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Arizona State University, according to a release from the governorâs office. Steele was a deputy county prosecutor from 2010 to 2015 and has worked as an attorney for South Bend since then.
SOUTH BEND â Almost six months after first receiving a list of candidates to fill an open judicial position, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is finally allowed to appoint a replacement for recently retired Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller.
Until Tuesday, Holcomb had been under a preliminary injunction, which prevented him from naming a replacement, as the result of a lawsuit filed by a member of the St. Joseph Superior Court Judicial Nominating Commission, the body tasked with nominating people to fill judicial vacancies.
The lawsuit, brought by Joseph Grabill, who is a member of the nominating commission, alleges two members of the commission were ineligible to serve when the body made its original recommendation to the governor in September and that the commission improperly considered the political affiliations of the candidates it interviewed.