The retirement of Judge McCarthy “Mack” Crenshaw, Jr. has created an opening in the Fourth Judicial Circuit and Gov. Rick Scott has asked the Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission to provide him with a list of nominees.
All applications must be delivered by 5 p.m. Sept. 14 to C. Wayne Alford, Fourth Judicial Circuit Nominating Commission chair. His office is at the Alford Law Group, 8833 Perimeter Park Blvd. Suite 104.
Crenshaw will officially retire Dec. 31.
His retirement ceremony will be 4 p.m. Nov. 8 in Court Room 12 of the Clay County Courthouse.
Interviews of applicants will be held Oct. 3, 2012.
They will take place in the chambers of Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Donald M. Moran, room 7139, of the new Duval County Courthouse.
An interview schedule will be provided to each applicant once all of the applications have been received.
The Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission members are: Alford, Robert O’Quinn, Richard Alexander, William Prichard Jr., Dexter Van Davis, Kyle Gavin, Deno Hicks, Henry “Chip” Bachara and Melissa Nelson.
Each applicant is required to deliver a completed application plus nine copies and a recent photograph to the address listed above.
They must be able to fulfill the Constitutional qualifications before assuming the office of Circuit Court Judge, which require the applicants to be: members of The Florida Bar for the past five years, residents of Duval, Clay or Nassau counties and registered voters of the Florida.
The application form may be downloaded from The Florida Bar’s website at www.floridabar.com.
To assist in the review process, the Judicial Nominating Commission requests that applicants review their applications to make sure all questions in the application are answered fully and completely. In addition, applications should include current and accurate contact information for judges, co-counsel, opposing counsel and references because those individuals will be contacted.
If there is requested information missing from an application, the Judicial Nominating Commission will consider the applicant’s lack of effort in submitting a complete application, according to Alford.