SEC. 3. APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICES AND JUDGES. The governor shall nominate
and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint the justices of the supreme
court and the judges of the circuit, courts. No nomination shall be sent to the senate, and
no interim appointment shall be made when the senate is not in session, until after ten
days' public notice by the governor.
QUALI FICATIONS. No justice or judge shall hold any other office or position of profit
under the State or the United States. No person shall be eligible for the office of justice or
judge unless he shall have been admitted to practice law before the supreme court of this
State for at least ten YEARS. Any justice or judge who shall become a candidate for an
elective office shall thereby forfeit his office.
TENURE; COMPENSATION; RETIREMENT. The term of office of a justice of the
supreme court and of a judge of a circuit court shall be ten YEARS. They shall receive for
theft services such compensation as may be prescribed by law, but no less than twenty-
eight thousand dollars for the chief justice, twenty-seven thousand dollars for associate
justices and twenty-five thousand dollars for circuit court judges, a year. Their
compensation shall not be decreased during their respective terms of office, unless by
general law applying to all salaried officers of the State. They shall be retired upon
attaining the age of seventy YEARS. They shall be included in any retirement law of the
State.
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