We need to think this through CAREFULLY!

Before we change anything in the Constitution, we need to think very carefully about the intent of those who originally wrote it. The New Hampshire Constitution created automatic term limits for judges, so we should think twice about tampering with it. This limitation is one of the reasons New Hampshire does not have the totally out-of-control judiciary the feds and many states have. Yes, there are problems, but nowhere near what exists elsewhere.

That being said, the one way this would ever work would be if we also set term limits for judges. Too many of these people already spend too much time on the bench. Term limits would guarantee that the occasional bad apple doesn't get to screw things up for decades. I would go along with 10 years in any given court (District, Probate, Superior, or Supreme), and a total of 20 as a judge. Removing the age limit while leaving life tenure in place would subject New Hampshire to the same disaster we have at the federal level and that so many other states have to contend with.

Sheriffs are a different situation. They are elected and accountable to the voters. Even given how low the interest generally is in county government, a truly bad sheriff will get canned by the electorate.There is always a way to get at them. (Personally, I think the more appropriate question regarding sheriffs is whether county government should even continue to exist, but that's fodder for another debate.)