FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Deputy County Attorney Stacy Krueger is Gov. Doug Ducey’s choice to fill a Coconino County Superior Court vacancy.
Ducey’s office on Thursday announced Ducey’s appointment of Krueger to fill the opening created by Judge Mark Moran’s retirement.
Voters in Coconino County in 2018 opted to replace election of Superior Court judges with the merit selection system under which the governor makes a judicial appointment by selecting one person off a screening commission’s list of nominees.
The state commission for Coconino County trial court appointments nominated four candidates for the appointment.
Apart from Krueger, the other three nominees were Joshua C. Steinlage, a county Justice Court justice of the peace pro tempore; Marianne E. Sullivan, a senior assistant city attorney for the city of Flagstaff; and Charles W. Doughty, managing attorney at DNA-People’s Legal Services.
Krueger and Sullian are independents. Doughty and Steinlage are Democrats.
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