In Re McVay

OPINION

RYAN, Justice.

¶ 1 This case requires us to decide whether the Commission on Judicial Conduct (Commission) improperly considered the effect a suspension would have on a judge’s retirement benefits in approving agreed-upon sanctions. We hold that it did.

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¶ 2 Judge Jacqueline McVay has served as a full-time justice of the peace since January 1, 1989. In 1994, Judge McVay was infor mally disciplined by the Commission for “being late to court on numerous occasions without explaining the reasons for her tardiness to counsel, litigants, and witnesses who were waiting for trials to begin.” In…