RULE 5. INTERESTED PARTY

A judge who is a member of the Commission or of the Supreme Court may not participate as such in any proceedings involving the judge's own discipline, censure, removal, or retirement. In proceedings involving a Justice of the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court shall appoint in the justice's place the district judge who is senior in years of service as a district judge. In proceedings involving a judge who is a member of the Commission, the chair or presiding officer of the district judges association shall appoint another of its members to serve in the judge's place in that proceeding.