BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – Gov. Kelly Armstrong appointed attorney Marina Spahr to the bench of the South Central Judicial District on Thursday.
Spahr has been a practicing attorney for three decades, according to an announcement from Armstrong’s office.
She has experience in both civil and criminal law, and most recently served in the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office as an assistant attorney general and head of the agency’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
From 2015 to 2019, Spahr served as a senior assistant Burleigh County state’s attorney.
Before that, she was in private practice for more than 20 years in Carrington and Cooperstown, where her work included family law, real estate, contracts and probate.
Spahr, who will start in the position effective Sept. 15, will fill the vacancy left by Judge David Reich, who took the bench in 2006 and retired in June.
Spahr last year ran unsuccessfully against Jason Hammes to replace Judge Bruce Romanick, who retired last year, in the same judicial district.
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