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Posted: 6:32 PM- North Salt Lake's Justice Court judge resigned early this month.
Judge Michael Crippen served in that capacity since 1998.
"He retired and we will replace him," said Mayor Shanna Schaefermeyer, declining to elaborate. "In the next month or so, we'll put together a steering committee and select a new judge."
Crippen, part of the Salt Lake City-based law firm Crippen & Cline, characterized what occurred as an "amicable parting of the ways."
"I had a meeting with the mayor and she wanted a different judge," Crippen said. "They gave me a nice little severance package and I left."
Crippen, 62, said he got his start as a judge in 1987, doing pro-bono work for Salt Lake County's small-claims courts. During his nine years with North Salt Lake, he said he strove to do justice.
"I've been a judge for 20 years - that's enough for anybody," Crippen said, adding he can now devote himself fully to his real-estate law practice, which he says is inundated with cases.
David Miller, an attorney who presides over Centerville's Justice Court, will fill the North Salt Lake slot until a permanent replacement can be found, Schaefermeyer said.
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