2016

PIERCE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

APPLICATION TO SERVE AS COMMISSIONER PRO TEMPORE

Last Name: / First Name: / M.I.:
Business Address:
City: / State: / Zip Code:
Phone Number: / Fax Number:
Work E-mail Address (yours or designee):
  1. Are you a United States citizen (RCW 2.24.010)? YES NO
  1. Date of Admission to Practice In Washington (Minimum 5 years experienced required):
  1. Approximate percentage of practice in the following areas:

% / Areas of Practice
Adoption
Debtor/Creditor
Domestic Violence/Unlawful Harassment
Estate
Family Law (Dissolution/Legal Separation/Invalidity)
Guardianship (RCW 11.88)
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Dependency
Landlord/Tenant
Mental Illness Hearings
Minor Settlements/Personal Injury
Paternity
Probate
  1. Other Experience and Qualifications (Please attached current Resume)
  1. If you have previously served or are presently serving as a Pro Tem Judge, please state the following:

A) Total number of years experience:

B) County(ies) and court(s) you have served and the period of time for each:

  1. If you have served as a pro tem commissioner, please list the subject areas that you have presided over:
  1. If you have worked as an arbitrator, please state the following:

A) Total number of years of experience:

B) Types of cases:

  1. Are you proficient or have a working knowledge of:

A) Pierce County public LINX system: YES NO

B) Microsoft Outlook: YES NO

C) Support Calculations: YES NO

  1. Are you willing to preside over dockets without the paper file and using only the electronic file from LINX:

YES NO

  1. Regarding your use of Social Media:

A) Do you use social media e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter?

YES NO

B) If you answered “YES” to question A), have you ever posted anything on a social media page that would be embarrassing to the position of a Judicial Officer?

YES NO

C) If you answered “YES” to question B) above, please describe what type of content was posted to the social media page:

D) Have you read the applicable Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct relating to social media?

YES NO

E) If you answered “YES” to question D) please indicate your understanding of what limitations are placed on social media by the Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct?

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Date Signature

All applications shall be submitted to the court administrator by

Monday, September 29, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.

Pierce County Superior Court Administration

ATTN: Andra Motyka, Court Administrator

930 Tacoma Avenue South

334 County-City Building

Tacoma, WA 98402-2108

*KEEP THIS PAGE FOR YOUR RECORD*

YOU MAY NOT CONCURRENTLY SERVE AS A GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND COMMISSIONER PRO TEM IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON AFTER JUNE 6, 1996, ACCORDING TO SECTION 12, CHAPTER 2.08 RCW. EXCEPT A PRO TEM COMMISSIONER MAY SERVE AS A LITIGATION GUARDIAN AD LITEM UNDER RCW 4.08.060.

BY SUBMITTING THIS APPLICATION YOU ARE AGREEING TO ACCEPT PRO TEM APPOINTMENTS TO ALL COMMISSIONER CALENDARS, INCLUDING WESTERN STATE AND REMANN HALL.
IF ACCEPTED AS A PRO TEM COMMISSIONER, THE SUPERIOR COURT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REMOVE YOU FROM THE PRO TEM COMMISSIONER LIST WITHOUT CAUSE. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SELECT THE COURTROOMS OR DOCKETS ASSIGNED TO YOU AS A PRO TEM COMMISSIONER.
YOU AGREE TO ATTEND ANY PRO TEM TRAINING SCHEDULED BY THE PIERCE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT.
IF ACCEPTED AS A PRO TEM COMMISSIONER, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO REVIEW THE DOCKETS ASSIGNED TO YOU FORTY-EIGHT (48) HOURS PRIOR TO SERVING AS A PRO TEM COMMSISIONER AND NOTIFY COMMISSIONER SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF ANY CONFLICTS.
IF ACCEPTED AS A PRO TEM COMMISSIONER, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO REVIEW ALL WORKING COPIES THE DAY BEFORE SERVING AS A PRO TEM COMMISSIONER.
YOU MAY NOT LEAVE THE ASSIGNED COURTROOM EARLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF A SITTING COURT COMMISSIONER OR JUDGE.

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