Lisa K. Fair McEvers

Justice McEvers was appointed by Governor John Hoeven as District Court Judge to the East Central Judicial District in 2010 and elected to the position in 2012.  She was then appointed by Governor Jack Dalrymple to the North Dakota Supreme Court on January 1, 2014.  She was elected in 2016, and re-elected in 2018.  

Born in 1962; Justice McEvers is a native of Minto, North Dakota. She earned her Bachelors in Business Administration in Information Management from the University of North Dakota in 1993. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1997, and was admitted to the N.D. Bar on October 6, 1997.

Justice McEvers served as a law clerk to the North Dakota Supreme Court during the 1997-1998 term. She worked in private legal practice from 1998-2001, and became a Cass County Assistant State's Attorney in 2001.  In 2005, she was appointed by Governor John Hoeven as the North Dakota Commissioner of Labor.