WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) - A new circuit judge has been sworn in during a private ceremony in West Virginia.
The state Supreme Court said Michael J. Olejasz was sworn in at the Ohio County Courthouse on Wednesday as a First Judicial Circuit judge. First Circuit Judge David J. Sims administered the oath of office.
A public ceremony will be held later.
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Gov. Jim Justice appointed Olejasz to the bench last month to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Judge James P. Mazzone. Mazzone left to replace a retiring U.S. magistrate judge.
Olejasz is a Wheeling native. He has been an assistant Ohio County prosecutor for 10 years and previously was managing partner of a Wheeling law firm.
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