Susan Bailey

Judge Susan Bailey was elected as a District Court Judge in 2014 for the East Central Judicial District judgeship #1, located in Fargo, North Dakota.

Born in 1963, Judge Bailey graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. She earned her Master of Arts in Counseling in 1988 and her Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1997. She was admitted to the North Dakota Bar on October 6, 1997.

Judge Bailey served as an Administrative Law Judge from 2006 to 2014. She was the Municipal Court Judge for the cities of West Fargo and Horace from 2004 to 2014, and for Tower City, Kindred, and Davenport from 2009 to 2014. From 2001 to 2006, she served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cass County.