MN First Lady Mary Pawlenty will join Nat’l Arbitration Forums as general counsel

Mary Pawlenty, wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, has taken a job as general counsel of the National Arbitration Forum. She is presently a Dakota County District Court judge, but will resign effective next month.

Apparently she doesn’t agree with Richard Neely, a retired West Virginia judge who described his experience with the National Arbitration Forum this way:

“Thus I learned how Godless bloodsucking banks have converted apparently neutral arbitration forums into collection agencies to exact the last drop of blood from desperate consumers.”