General Information

If you have a hearing scheduled and have misplaced your instructions, please click for Judge Carpenter's zoom instructions or Magistrate Ladwig's instructions. 

The District Court is comprised of four divisions:

1. Civil Division handles cases that involve money or damage claims, as well as landlord/tenant evictions.
2. Criminal Division is responsible for processing paperwork filed by the police departments, state law and local ordinance prosecutors. 
3. Traffic Division processes citations written by police departments and zoning violations. 
4. Probation Department is responsible for conducting pre-sentence investigations, alcohol assessments, probation violation hearings and supervision of offenders.
    

Michael D. Carpenter, Presiding Judge

Gerald J. Ladwig, Attorney Magistrate

District Court observes the following federal holidays:

New Year's Day 

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday

President's Day

Good Friday

Memorial Day

Juneteenth

Independence Day

Labor Day

Veteran's Day 

Thanksgiving

Day after Thanksgiving

Christmas Eve

Christmas

New Year's Eve