Seventy five Cook County jurists file for November retention election

By my entirely unofficial count, some 75 Cook County jurists, including Appellate Court Justice Thomas E. Hoffman, have filed to appear on the November retention ballot. Hoffman is the only elected member of the First District Appellate Court up for retention this year.

Three Cook County Circuit judges presently serving by assignment on the Appellate Court are also seeking retention this Fall. These are Justices Robert E. Gordon, Michael B. Hyman, and Mary Anne Mason.

Every elected Appellate Court justice must seek retention every 10 years. Every elected Circuit Court judge, whether elected countywide or by subcircuit, must seek retention every six years. Voters vote "yes" or "no" on the question of whether any particular judge should be retained in office. To be retained, a jurist must receive a 60% "yes" vote (60% + 1).

At some point between now and the election, the Chicago Bar Association and the member bar associations of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening will release their evaluations of all the judges seeking retention. When these are available, I'll post them here on For What It's Worth.

Here is a list of all Cook County Circuit Court judges who are seeking retention in November:

• Edward A. Arce
• Mauricio Araujo
• Andrew Berman
• Margaret Ann Brennan
• Eileen Mary Brewer
• Janet Adams Brosnahan
• James Brown
• Eileen O’Neill Burke
• Thomas J. Byrne
• Diane Gordon Cannon
• Evelyn B. Clay
• Mary Ellen Coghlan
• Ann Collins-Dole
• Donna L. Cooper
• Clayton J. Crane
• Anna Helen Demacopoulos
• Lynn Marie Egan
• Candace Jean Fabri
• Peter A. Felice
• Thomas E. Flanagan
• James Patrick Flannery
• John J. Fleming
• Rodolfo (Rudy) Garcia
• James J. Gavin
• Robert E. Gordon
• Margarita Kulys Hoffman
• Vanessa A. Hopkins
• Michael B. Hyman
• Marilyn F. Johnson
• Rickey Jones
• Themis N. Karzenis
• Kathleen G. Kennedy
• Kerry M. Kennedy
• Diana L. Kenworthy
• Maureen Ward Kirby
• William G. Lacy
• Marjorie C. Laws
• Cassandra Lewis
• Thomas J. Lipscomb
• Noreen Valeria Love
• Pamela Elizabeth Loza
• Patricia Manila Martin
• Mary Anne Mason
• Veronica B. Mathein
• Sheila McGinnis
• Dennis Michael McGuire
• Kathleen Marie McGury
• Lewis Nixon
• William Timothy O’Brien
• Annie O’Donnell
• James N. O’Hara
• Sebastian Thomas Patti
• Edmund Ponce de Leon
• Jackie Marie Portman
• Joan E. Powell
• James L. Rhodes
• James G. Riley
• Anita Rivkin-Carothers
• Pat Rogers
• Dominique C. Ross
• Kristyna Colleen Ryan
• Patrick J. Sherlock
• Laura Marie Sullivan
• Donald J. Suriano
• Shelley Lynn Sutker-Dermer
• Michael P. Toomin
• Sandra Tristano
• Valerie E. Turner
• Raul Vega
• Kenneth J. Wadas
• Debra B. Walker
• Ursula Walowski
• Gregory Joseph Wojkowski
• Frank G. Zelezinski

Judge Anthony L. Burrell had filed for retention before his death.

Any other omissions or errors in this list are my responsibility.