Supreme Court Orders
The Wisconsin Supreme Court sets a public hearing for April
18 to consider increasing the number of Board of Bar Examiners
members.
Board
of Bar Examiners
In the Matter of the Amendment of Supreme Court Rules: SCR
30.01(1): Board of Bar Examiners
Order 00-01
The court, on its own motion, proposes to amend SCR
30.01(1) to increase from 9 to 11 the number of members it
appoints to the Board of Bar Examiners by adding 2 public members.
Accordingly, the rule would be amended further to increase from
5 to 7 the number of members selected from the Wisconsin judiciary,
the faculty of the law schools of this state, and the public.
IT IS ORDERED that a public hearing on the court's proposal
to increase the number of members of the Board of Bar Examiners
to 11 by adding 2 public members be held in the Supreme Court
Hearing Room, 119 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison, Wis.,
on April 18, 2000, at 1:30 p.m.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the court's conference in
the matter be held promptly following the public hearing.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that notice of the hearing be given
by a single publication of a copy of this order in the official
state newspaper and in an official publication of the State Bar
of Wisconsin not more than 60 days nor less than 30 days before
the date of the hearing.
Dated at Madison, Wis., this 31st day of January, 2000.
By the court:
Cornelia Clark
Acting Clerk
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