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Governor Armstrong Appoints Grand Forks County Prosecutor to Judgeship

By Bill Dubensky Jul 25, 2025 | 5:08 AM

Grand Forks County Assistant State’s Attorney Andrew Eyre. (Contributed/Office of the Governor via the North Dakota Monitor)

 

(North Dakota Monitor) – Governor Kelly Armstrong appointed Grand Forks County prosecutor Andrew Eyre to an open judgeship in the state’s Northeast Central Judicial District.

Eyre’s appointment will take effect on Aug. 29 following the retirement of Judge John A. Thelen, who served on the court since 2015, according to Armstrong’s office.

Since 2013, Eyre has served as an assistant state’s attorney for Grand Forks County where he has participated in about 40 trials and more than two dozen appeals to the North Dakota Supreme Court. He previously served as an adjunct faculty member at University of North Dakota School of Law from 2014 to 2015.

Eyre won the Jim Vigness Peacemaker of the Year award in 2023 from the Community Violence Intervention Center in Grand Forks.

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