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EXECUTIVE ORDERS

request recommendations from them. The
Commission may also seek [a recommendation]
RECOMMENDATIONS from interested citizens and
from among its own members.

(c)  (1) The Commission shall evaluate each proposed

nominee. In the course of its evaluation, a
Commission may seek information beyond that
contained in the personal data questionnaire
submitted to it. It may obtain pertinent
information from knowledgeable persons known
to Commission members, the Attorney
Grievance Commission, judges, personal
references given by the candidate, criminal
justice agencies, or other sources. A
criminal justice agency, including the
Central Repository, may release criminal
history record information, including
conviction and non-conviction data, to a
Commission, on the request of the Commission
chairman, for the purpose of evaluating a
candidate.

(2) Not less than [nine] 10 Commission members
shall be present at a voting session.

(3) The Commission shall select and nominate to
the Governor the names of persons it finds
to be legally and most fully professionally
qualified. No person's name may be
submitted unless [he] THE PERSON has been
found legally and most fully professionally
qualified by a vote of a majority of the
[entire authorized membership of the
Commission,] MEMBERS PRESENT AT A VOTING
SESSION, taken by secret ballot and unless
[he] THE PERSON has been interviewed by the
Commission or a panel thereof. THE SECRET
BALLOTS SHALL BE SEALED AND DELIVERED TO THE
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS AND MAY
BE OPENED ONLY BY DEMAND OF THE GOVERNOR OR
BY COURT ORDER.

(d)       The Commission shall report to the Governor,
in writing, the names of the persons it
nominates as legally and most fully
professionally qualified to fill a vacancy.
The names of persons shall be listed in
alphabetical order. The report shall be
submitted within 70 days after notification
by the Commission's secretariat that a
vacancy exists or is about to occur. The
Commission shall release its report to the
public concurrently with submission of the
report to the Governor.