Callum and Bryne to leave Appellate Court

The Supreme Court has announced that Second District Appellate Court Justices Thomas E. Callum (left) and Robert E. Byrne (right) will be retiring from the court effective July 6, 2008.

DuPage County Chief Judge Ann B. Jorgensen has been appointed to the Appellate Court to fill the unexpired term Justice Callum, while DuPage County Circuit Judge Michael J. Burke will serve by appointment in Justice Byrne's stead.

DuPage County Circuit Judge Richard M. Stock, who had been serving by appointment to the vacancy of Judge Edward R. Duncan, Jr., has been appointed to Judge Jorgensen's vacancy. Meanwhile, Associate Judge Blanche Hill Fawell has been appointed to the Duncan vacancy. Fawell is the daughter-in-law of former DuPage County Chief Judge Bruce Fawell and former state Sen. Beverly Fawell (R-Glen Ellyn). Fawell beat Stock for the Duncan vacancy in the February primary; she is unopposed in the November election. Appointing Stock to the Jorgensen vacancy gives him the opportunity to stay on the bench until 2010.

Each of these appointments becomes effective on July 7.