Local Court Judge in Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana

Candidate must be a U.S. citizen, must be a resident of the county in which the city or town is located for 1 year, and must attend two Supreme Court-supervised training conferences each year and pass a Certification Examination each term. Failure to attend a training conference or pass the examination creates a vacancy.

Filing fee: 0.5% of total annual position salary; signature requirement: 5% or more of the total vote cast for the successful candidate for the same office at the last general election. If the office sought is a new office or the boundaries of the district or political subdivision in which the election is to be held have changed since the last election for the office, the officer with whom nominations for the office sought are filed shall determine the number of signatures required for a petition of nomination for that office.

Submit paperwork to the County Election Administrator's office.