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Lisa K. Fair McEvers
Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
Assumed office
January 1, 2014
Appointed byJack Dalrymple
Preceded byMary Muehlen Maring
North Dakota Labor Commissioner
In office
2005–2010
Appointed byJohn Hoeven
Preceded byLeAnn K. Bertsch
Succeeded byTony Weiler
Personal details
BornGrafton, North Dakota
Alma materUniversity of North Dakota

Lisa K. Fair McEvers is a North Dakota lawyer and jurist who serves as a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court since 2014. She previously served as Commissioner of the North Dakota Department of Labor from 2005 to 2010 and district judge from 2010 to 2014.

Early life and education[edit]

McEvers was born in Grafton, North Dakota and raised in Minto, North Dakota.[1] She graduated cum laude from the University of North Dakota in 1993 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Management.[1] She graduated with distinction from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1997.[1]

Career[edit]

McEvers worked in court administration in the Northeast Judicial District of North Dakota before attending law school.[1] After law school, she clerked at the North Dakota Supreme Court. She was in private legal practice from 1998 to 2001. She served as Cass County Assistant State's Attorney from 2001 to 2005.

She was appointed North Dakota Commissioner of Labor in July 2005. She was appointed district judge for the East Central Judicial District in 2010 and was chambered in Fargo, North Dakota. In 2014, Governor Jack Dalrymple appointed McEvers to the North Dakota Supreme Court to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Mary Muehlen Maring.[2] She was elected to an unexpired two-year term in 2016 and re-elected to a ten-year term in 2018.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "North Dakota Court System - Lisa K. Fair McEvers". www.ndcourts.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  2. ^ "McEvers named to state N.D. Supreme Court". Grand Forks Herald. November 18, 2013. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
Political offices
Preceded by North Dakota Commissioner of Labor
2005–2010
Succeeded by
Tony Weiler
Legal offices
Preceded by Associate Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
2014–present
Incumbent