Sioux City, Iowa — An attorney from our area and one just outside our area are two of eight people vying to become a district judge in northwest Iowa.
The attorneys are in the running to replace District 3B Judge Mary Jane Sokolovske, due to her retirement. District 3B includes Crawford, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, and Woodbury counties. The remainder of our area is in District 3A, which includes Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, Kossuth, O’Brien, Osceola, and Palo Alto counties.
The two attorneys are Michael Jacobsma of Jacobsma & Clabaugh PLC in Orange City and Darin Raymond, who is the Plymouth County Attorney in LeMars.
Others who are vying for the seat include:
- Tod Deck: Judicial Magistrate and Deck Law, LLP, Sioux City
- David Dawson: Assistant County Attorney-Woodbury County, Sioux City
- Zachary Hindman: Mayne, Arneson, Hindman, Hisey & Daane, Sioux City
- Roseanne Lienhard: Second Opinion Legal Center and Mediation Services, Hinton
- Billy Oyadare: Attorney – State Public Defender’s Office, Sioux City
- Julie Schumacher: District Associate Judge, Schleswig
The Iowa Judicial Branch says that each applicant will be interviewed on December 9th, 2016 at the Woodbury County Courthouse in Sioux City. They tell us that applicants must be members of the bar of Iowa, residents of the Judicial District 3B, and of such age that they will be able to serve an initial and one regular term of office before reaching the age of seventy-two years.
The Commission will submit the names of two nominees to Governor Branstad. Governor Branstad will then appoint one of the nominees to be a district judge. The judge selected will ultimately stand for retention election.
