Friday, January 18, 2008

Northwest Suburban Bar Association releases its evaluations

The Northwest Suburban Bar Association has released its evaluations of judicial candidates in the upcoming primary. These are not yet posted on the NWSBA's website -- at least not that I could find -- but I received a copy this evening from Joyce Williams at the ISBA.

I took the liberty of copying the NWSBA ratings into the table that the ISBA sent when it released its ratings. You'll note, though, that this one is shorter: The NWSBA bypassed a number of races which is not surprising since its membership is concentrated in the Northwest suburbs. I don't know whether the NWSBA bypassed the countywide Healy vacancy intentionally or whether it was just accidentally left off the press release; I'm certain that someone will advise. It may be surprising, perhaps, that the NWSBA made evaluations in the far South Suburban 15th Subcircuit:

According to the NWSBA website, candidates were interviewed between January 3 to January 23, 2008 in sessions running from 6:00 p.m. until after 10:00 p.m. Up to eight candidates were interviewed per night, each scheduled for 20 minutes sessions. The NWSBA says it evaluated candidates "on the basis of past trial performance, legal ability, integrity, knowledge of the law, judicial temperament, impartiality and decisiveness." The NWSBA stressed that "no consideration was given either for the political affiliation of a candidate or the fact that a candidate may or may not be opposed by another candidate in the election."

Candidates that failed to submit to submit the documents requested or that failed to appear before the Association's Screening Committee were not evaluated by the NWSBA and "cannot be recommended by the Committee for election." Here, then, are the NWSBA ratings:

Key: HR = Highly Recommended

R = Recommended

NR = Not Recommended; NE = Not Evaluated

Appellate Court – 1st District
Vacancy of the Hon. Anne M. Burke

William D. O’Neal

NE

Alan J. Greiman

HR

Sharon Johnson Coleman

NE

Appellate Court – 1st District
Vacancy of the Hon. Calvin C. Campbell

John O. Steele

HR

Frank Edward Gardner

NE

Richard F. Walsh

HR

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Barbara J. Disko

Lauretta Higgins Wolfson

R

Dennis J. Burke

HR

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Francis W. Glowacki

Terry MacCarthy

HR

Jesse G. Reyes

R

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Michael T. Healy

Maureen Ward Kirby


Peter John Curielli


Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Michael R. Keehan

Marilyn F. Johnson

HR

Joseph Robert Papavero

NE

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Gay-Lloyd Lott

Joanne Marie “Jody” Rogers

R

Thomas J. Byrne

HR

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon Anthony S. Montelione

Thomas A. Doran

R

Thaddeus L. Wilson

R

Debra B. Walker

R

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Michael J. Murphy

Paula M. Lingo

R

Kristyna Colleen Ryan

NE

Frank James Ryan

R

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Julia M. Nowicki

John J. “Jack” Murphy

R

Michael B. Hyman

HR

Kim R. Kardas

HR

Brian Terrence Sexton

HR

Cook County Circuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Mary Maxwell Thomas

Joan Powell

R

David John Mulvihill

NE

E. Madeline O’Neill

R

Patrick Dennis Riley

NE

4th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Lon W. Shultz

John M. Allegretti

NE

William Edward Gomolinski

NE

Maureen H. Masterson-Pulia

R

Pat Rogers

HR

Mauro Glorioso

NE

Carmen Kathleen Aguilar

NE

Deirdre Ann McGuire

R

6th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Raymond A. Figueroa

Nancy Hallihan Horodecki

NE

Mauricio Araujo

R

Laura Bertucci Smith

NE

Mary Katherine M. Moore

NE

Stuart M. Brody

HR

7th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Anthony L. Young

David H. Latham

R

Anita Rivkin-Carothers

HR

Kevin Kenneth Pechous

NE

Melanie Rose Nuby

NR

T. Lee Boyd, Jr.

NE

8th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Nancy Drew Sheehan

Gideon Abraham Baum

NE

Daniel Thomas Gillespie

HR

James Byrne

NE

Debra Kramer Marcus

NE

Ann Collins Dole

HR

James A. Shapiro

HR

Aaron J. Weiss

NE

10th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Robert J. Kowalski

Ursula Walowski

HR

Gerald Patrick Cleary

R

James Edward Snyder

NE

Stephen F. Sidlowski

R

10th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Dennis J. Morrissey

Diana L. Kenworthy

HR

John G. Mulroe

R

Rosaire Marie Hall

R

10th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Aurelia Pucinski

Joan Ellen Smuda

NE

Eileen O’Neill Burke

HR

Thomas Francis Biesty

R

Kenneth L. Fletcher

R

12th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Donald M. Devlin

Thomas Flannigan

HR

Michael John Halloran

R

Pamela Elizabeth Loza

R

Laura J. Morask

R

Thomas R. Mulroy

HR

Michaela Nolan Ryan

NE

13th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. James T. Ryan

Annie O’Donnell

HR

James E. Babcock, Jr.

R

Joe Gump

R

Ann Catherine Brady

R

Paul S. Pavlus

R

Guy M. Karm

R

13th Subcircuit - Vacancy of the Hon. Karen T. Tobin

Margarita Kulys Hoffman

R

George L. Straton

HR

Cary J. Collins

HR

Carol L. Barnes

NE

Gary G. Stanton

HR

15th Subcircuit
Additional Judgeship “A”

Michael Emmett McGinnis

NE

Donald Theodore Lyman

NE

Thomas “TJ” Somer

NE

Martin D. Coghlan

NE

Mary Louise Ryan Norwell

NE

William Joseph McGann

R

Peter Fera

NE

Anna Helen Demacopoulos

NE

Carl Evans, Jr.

R

Thomas R. Mahoney

NE

Scott E. Lipinski

NE

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