Mary Muehlen Maring
North Dakota Supreme Court

Justice Maring graduated in 1975 from the University of North Dakota School of Law with a Juris Doctorate Degree. The first year following law school, she worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Bruce Stone, Hennepin County District Court, Minnesota. In 1976, she entered the private practice of law and spent 20 years practicing law in North Dakota and Minnesota state and federal courts. During her practice of law, she handled cases in many areas of civil litigation. She is certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association. She is a member of the International Society of Barristers. She has served in leadership positions in both the North Dakota and Minnesota Bar Associations, including president of the Clay County Minnesota Bar, president of the East Central Judicial District Bar Association, president of North Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, and a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar Association of North Dakota. She has served on numerous committees to study and improve the system of justice. On March 1, 1996, she was appointed by Governor Edward Schafer to the North Dakota Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Levine's retirement. On November 5, 1996, she was elected to complete that term, and on November 3, 1998, she was elected to a ten-year term as a justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court. She chaired the study implementation committees of the Juvenile Drug Courts in North Dakota and currently sits as the chair of the Juvenile Drug Court Advisory Committee. She also chairs the Gender Fairness Implementation Committee and is a member of the Court Services Committee, the Juvenile Policy Board, and the Governor's North Dakota Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. She is the chair-elect of the North Dakota Judicial Conference.

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