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Former Speaker Carruthers in running for judgeship

Charley Shaw//May 9, 2011//

Former Speaker Carruthers in running for judgeship

Charley Shaw//May 9, 2011//

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Former House Speaker is among six lawyers who have been recommended by the to serve on Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District bench that covers Hennepin County.

Carruthers, who represented Brooklyn Center as a DFLer, was House majority leader from 1993 to 1996 and was speaker from 1997 to 1998. He currently works in the Ramsey County Attorney’s office where he is director of the civil division.

Gov. will choose among the six candidates to fill three vacant seats

The five other candidates are:

Meshbesher & Spence attorney Katherine Flom

Minneapolis Deputy City Attorney Martha Holton Dimick

Assistant Federal Public Defender Lyonel Norris

Hennepin County Family Court Referee and Child Support Magistrate David Piper

UnitedHealth senior associate general counsel Jacqueline Regis

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