A Herkimer County town court judge has resigned amid allegations that he mishandled court funds and had driven for more than eight years without a valid driver’s license, a state disciplinary panel said on Monday.

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced that Manheim Town Court Justice Douglas E. Gardner had resigned his office effective Feb. 22, after the commission charged him in a formal complaint late last year with failing to deposit fines and other court-collected funds.