AUGUSTA — Gov. John R. McKernan on Wednesday nominated the state’s first female supreme court justice to another seven-year term and made other postings on the District Court bench.

Supreme Court Justice Caroline D. Glassman, 67, of Portland was renominated to another full term on the bench, on which she is the only woman to have served.

McKernan nominated Joseph H. Field, 43, of Freeport to the District Court bench to replace Chief Judge Alan Pease as the 59-year-old Pease moves into active retired status on the bench.

Field, a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Maine Law School, has been a member of a Brunswick law firm since 1982.

McKernan also is nominating District Judge Susan Calkins, 47, of Dover-Foxcroft, to be a district judge at-large to replace Harriet Henry of Windham who retired earlier this year.

Her new appointment would facilitate Calkins’ nomination by Chief Justice Vincent McKusick as chief judge of the District Court.

McKernan is nominating former Judge Jessie Briggs Gunther, 43, of Milo to Calkins’ District Court seat. Gunther served on the state Superior Court bench from 1980 to 1986, and was a district judge from 1976 to 1980.

“Jessie Gunther is a proven judge,” said McKernan in a prepared statement. “I am pleased that she has decided to come out of her `retirement’ to serve on the District Court, and I eagerly look forward to her return.”

McKernan also is nominating Ralph L. Tucker, 43, to another seven-year term as chairman of the Workers Compensation Commission, and Lendall Smith, 44, to a six-year term as a member of the commission. Both men live in Brunswick.