Saint Paul – Governor Tim Pawlenty today announced the appointment of Judge Jill Flaskamp Halbrooks and the reappointment of Douglas Fuller to the Board on Judicial Standards. Both are appointed to four-year terms that expire on January 7, 2013.

Fuller, of Bemidji, is a broker with, and the owner of First Realty GMAC in Bemidji. He is a volunteer firefighter with the Bemidji Pioneer Fire Department, a member of the Bemidji Masonic Lodge, Grand Forks Shrine Club, Bemidji Chamber of Commerce, and Junior Chamber of Commerce. He also served three terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005. Fuller, who has been a member of the Judicial Standards Board since 2005, is reappointed as a public member.

Halbrooks, of Minneapolis, has been a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals since 1998. Previously, she was an attorney with the Rider, Bennett, Egan and Arundel law firm in Minneapolis. Halbrooks earned her juris doctorate degree cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, her master’s degree in guidance and counseling from the University of Colorado in Boulder, her counseling practicum from the University of California in Davis, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is an adjunct law instructor at William Mitchell College of Law and a member of its Alumni Board of Directors, a member and past president of the Warren E. Burger Inn of Court, and a member of Minnesota State Bar Association Governing Council where she chaired the Civil Litigation Section. Halbrooks replaces the Honorable Terri J. Stoneburner as a Court of Appeals judge member of the board.

The Board on Judicial Standards investigates allegations of misconduct by Minnesota judges and referees and recommends discipline to the Minnesota Supreme Court, including censure, suspension, retirement or removal of judges. The board consists of 10 members appointed by the Governor, including one judge of the Court of Appeals, three trial court judges, two attorneys with at least 10 years of experience in the state and four public members.