JUDICIAL ETHICS ADVISORY PANEL


74 P.3d 111 (2003)

2003 OK JUD ETH 5

JUDICIAL ETHICS ADVISORY PANEL

Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel.

August 6, 2003.


JUDICIAL ETHICS OPINION 2003-5

¶ 1 QUESTION 1: May a municipal judge retain that office after the judge's spouse is elected to the city council?

¶ 2 QUESTION 2: If, in the future, the spouse becomes Mayor with the right to appoint the municipal judge, must the judge resign?

¶ 3 FACT SITUATION:

1. The judge seeking an opinion has been a municipal judge in a rural community since 1996....

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