MONTESANO — The Grays Harbor County commissioners on Monday narrowed seven candidates for the vacant District Court judge position to three finalists. In no particular order, the commissioners have invited former deputy prosecutor Andrea Vingo and defense attorneys Kyle Imler and David Mistachkin in for public interviews on Wednesday.
Mistachkin, Imler and Acting Prosecutor Gerald Fuller had been the favorites from a recent Grays Harbor Bar Association poll, but Vingo had been left off the poll since she’s no longer a member of the bar association.
County Commissioner Wes Cormier recommended Vingo, Imler, Mistachkin and Fuller to be finalists.
Commissioners Frank Gordon and Herb Welch, however, said they preferred three finalists.
Welch said Fuller wasn’t on his short list of candidates and Gordon and Cormier agreed to trim the list to three.
The decision was made during the county’s morning meeting on Monday.
The county commissioners have set a special meeting for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to interview candidates.
The candidates are vying for the District Court position vacated by Judge Stephen Brown when he was appointed to the Grays Harbor Superior Court last month.
Besides Vingo, Mistachkin, Imler and Fuller, the three other candidates seeking the position were family law attorney Britton Buckley, Aberdeen deputy city attorney Forest Worgum III and former Aberdeen Municipal Court judge Paul Conroy, who has been acting as a pro-tem District Court judge.
The appointed District Court judge won’t have to run for election to retain the seat until 2016.
If Vingo is selected, she’d be the first female judge in county history.
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