HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(e) Each Commission shall distribute
informational and educational materials
concerning judicial vacancies and the
functions of the Commission, in order to
inform the public of the Judicial selection
process of the State.

[5.] 6. Confidentiality

[Except for the names of those individuals
actually nominated to the Governor by a
Commission, the names] THE NAME of an
individual who submits a personal data
questionnaire to a Commission [is
confidential and] may not be made public by
[anyone] THE COMMISSION UNTIL AFTER THE
DEADLINE FOR FILING QUESTIONNAIRES.
[However, the] THE Administrative Office of
the Courts may [release] SUBMIT the names of
those individuals to a bar association, on
receiving satisfactory assurances that the
committee or president OF THE BAR
ASSOCIATION will not release or permit the
release [of the names] to the public OF ANY
RANKING OF THE INDIVIDUALS BY THE BAR
ASSOCIATION OR RESULTS OF ANY BALLOTS
RETURNED FROM MEMBERS OF THE BAR
ASSOCIATION. A personal data questionnaire
submitted to a Commission is confidential
and may not be released by anyone other than
the applicant, except that the
Administrative Office of the Courts shall
forward to the Governor the personal data
questionnaires of those individuals actually
nominated to the Governor by a Commission.

[6.] 7. Appointment

(a)  The Governor shall fill a judicial vacancy by
selecting a person from the list submitted by the
appropriate Commission.

(b)  With respect to any judicial vacancy, the
Governor also may fill the most recent judicial
vacancy by selecting a person from any list
previously submitted by the appropriate
Commission for a judicial vacancy on the same
court for which the current list is submitted if
the previous list was submitted within one
calendar year of the occurrence of the most
recent vacancy and information on the nominees is
updated.

[7. Definitions