The U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, is currently accepting applications for a full-time magistrate judge position in Jacksonville.
To be qualified for appointment, an applicant must be, and have been for at least five years, a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and have been engaged in the active practice of law for a period of at least five years (with some substitutes authorized); be competent to perform all duties of the office; be of good moral character; be emotionally stable and mature; be committed to equal justice under the law; be in good health; be patient and courteous; and be capable of deliberation and decisiveness; be younger than 70 years old; and not be related to a judge of the district court.
The term of office is eight years.
Applicants must use the official application form, which may be obtained at the intake counters of the clerk’s offices in Jacksonville, Ft. Myers, Ocala, Orlando, and Tampa or at the court’s Web site at www.flmd.uscourts.gov.
The original and 13 copies of the completed application, including a recent and in-depth writing sample, must be submitted only by the applicant personally and received by Sheryl L. Loesch, Clerk of Court, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Attn: Magistrate Judge Applications, 401 W. Central Blvd., Suite 2100, Orlando 32801-0210 no later than Jan. 29, 2010. Applications by fax will not be accepted.
All applications will be kept confidential, unless the applicant consents to disclosure, and all applications will be examined only by members of the Merit Selection Panel and the judges of the district court. The panel’s deliberations will remain confidential.
— Courtesy Florida Bar News