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you please tell us about your work experience and how it has prepared you for the requirements of this position? Bob Palmer answered, I've been a partner of May Oberfell Lorber for twenty-seven(27) years and have worked there for the past thirty-five (35)years. Before that I was Clerk to the Indiana Court of Appeals for one (1) of the judges writing opinions. I think those things have helped me prepare for this type of position in two (2)ways. One (1), I take instructions from judges very well. When I was on the Court of Appeals, I was called for jury duty and the judge knew what I did for a living and he said, "Mr. Palmer, do you think after hearing the evidence and with your experience that you could listen to me instruct you on the law and to apply the law as I tell you?" I replied"Yes, I do that every day of my life," and he said, "Yes, I know Judge Hoffinan very well."That was kind of what I learned from him. The second thing is I write a lot and read a lot. My writing, I like to think, is meticulous because writing goes to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court and is there forever. You don't want an opinion coming back criticizing anything you did or saying you make a mistake. I am extremely careful and try to make it as clear and as concise as possible. Councilmember Ferlic asked, Please tell us about the toughest or the most challenging case you handled this year. Mr. Palmer replied, The most difficult case I've had to deal with this year was a habeas corpus case in which I was appointed to represent a prisoner. This is something I do in connection with my position with the Notre Dame Law School. I teach a class at Notre Dame and the short story is I was appointed by the court to represent a prisoner. I usually get three (3) or four (4) of these cases a year. I then assign those to students and supervise the students as they work under my direction. They do the briefs and when it comes time for an oral argument, I supervise that and we then go to court and they do the oral arguments. This is something that is very, very unusual. But I have a case with a convicted child molester. One (1) day he called my office forty-five (45) times. It's difficult to explain to him that I cannot make the court move. The court does what it does on its own. From a personal standpoint, that was the most difficult. From a professional standpoint, I'm actually working on a products liability case. Indiana Products Liability Law was at its highpoint probably back in the 1990s but the statutes haven't changed. It was kind of difficult going back and applying the statutes as I knew them back in the 1990s but now applying them to current day situations. Councilmember Ferlic asked, Can you share with us a recent accomplishment of which you are most proud? Mr. Palmer replied, My daughter just graduated from Indiana University Medical School this past Saturday. Her husband just graduated from Terre Haute. Councilmember Ferlic asked, Tell us about a challenge that you solved in a unique or unusual way, what was the outcome, and were you satisfied with it? Mr. Palmer replied, A problem I solved in a unique way was a child-custody case. One (1) of the local judges did, what I thought to be, a serious wrong to my client. The first question I had when 2