One vacancy, many candidates in 8th Subcircuit

Susana Darwin, a former President of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, sent me an email today, advising of a number of potential candidates for the one open 8th Subcircuit vacancy, the vacancy of Judge Nancy Drew Sheehan.

Darwin advises that Ann Collins Dole, Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Torts Division, is apparently going to the make the run in the 8th. Collins Dole ran for a countywide vacancy in 2006, winning high marks from every bar association and the endorsements of the Tribune and Sun-Times, but lost to Aurelia Pucinski.

James A. Shapiro, recently appointed to the bench by the Supreme Court, is also apparently making the run for this seat as is Anne Marie Belanger, a partner in the Chicago office of Query & Harrow, Ltd.

Aaron Weiss, an Assistant Public Guardian in the Juvenile Division, is also circulating petitions as are Assistant State's Attorneys Gideon A. Baum and Jim Byrne. According to Ms. Darwin, it is Byrne who received the nod from the Democratic Party in the 8th Subcircuit.

The candidates are encouraged to contact this blog to 'fill in the blanks.'

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Ms. Darwin originally emailed me because in yesterday's post I'd omitted LAGBAC from the list of sponsors of the October 17 Alliance of Bar Associations presentation, entitled "A Guide to the Alliance Judicial Evaluation Process". (The Chair of LAGBAC's JEC, Mark Dupont, also called my attention to the omission.)

There is, of course, only one response possible in these circumstances: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. And I corrected the omission in the original post.