By: Danny Jacobs

I wrote about the newest appointments to the Baltimore County Circuit Court bench in today’s paper. Once S. Ann Brobst and John J. Nagle III are seated, the county will have 17 circuit court judges.

The county is still due a new judge whose seat was created by the General Assembly in July. A spokeswoman for Gov. Martin O’Malley told me there is no timetable for filling that seat. The new judge can also be selected from the existing candidate pool that O’Malley used to pick Brobst and Nagle.

The 18th judge, whenever he or is she is appointed, would have to run for a full, 15-year term in next year’s election along with Brobst, Nagle and Judge Sherrie R. Bailey, who was appointed in April.

Bud Clark, president of the Baltimore County Bar Association, said the organization traditionally endorses the sitting judges on an election ballot and will do so again next year.