Anthony C. Swanagan appointed to 15th Subcircuit vacancy

In an order entered yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed Anthony C. Swanagan to the 15th Subcircuit vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Frank G. Zelezinski.

Swanagan's appointment is effective April 24 and terminates December 3, 2018.

According to ARDC, Swanagan has been licensed as an attorney in Illinois since 1987. He currently serves as a career clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Andrea R. Wood. Earlier in his career, Swanagan was employed by Jones, Ware & Grenard and as general counsel for Galileo International, Inc.

2018 campaign website announced for Judge Fredrick H. Bates

A campaign website has been established for Judge Fredrick H. Bates. That's a link to the website in the preceding sentence; when there are a few more of these, this will be added to the list of campaign websites I'll set up in the blog sidebar.

Judge Bates currently serves by appointment to the Lampkin vacancy in the 2nd Subcircuit. His campaign website touts his two years' experience as a Circuit Court judge (prior to his current appointment, Judge Bates served in a different, countywide vacancy), 15 years as an administrative law judge, and 15 more as an attorney. The site lists attorneys Louis C. Cairo, of Goldberg Weisman & Cairo, and Larry Rogers Jr., of Powers, Rogers & Smith as campaign co-chairs (Rogers also serves as a Commissioner of the Board of Review). The website also lists 34th Ward Ald. Carrie M. Austin, 9th Ward Ald. Anthony Beale, 21st Ward Ald. Howard B. Brookins, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, 6th Ald. Roderick Sawyer, and Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarbrough are listed as honorary campaign co-chairs.

Who Sits Where -- Supreme Court Rule 67(B)(2) Edition

Supreme Court Rule 67(B)(2) provides (emphasis supplied),

A [judicial] candidate shall not personally solicit or accept campaign contributions. A candidate may establish committees of responsible persons to conduct campaigns for the candidate through media advertisements, brochures, mailings, candidate forums and other means not prohibited by law. Such committees may solicit and accept reasonable campaign contributions, manage the expenditure of funds for the candidate's campaign and obtain public statements of support for his or her candidacy. Such committees are not prohibited from soliciting and accepting reasonable campaign contributions and public support from lawyers. A candidate's committees may solicit contributions and public support for the candidate's campaign no earlier than one year before an election and no later than 90 days after the last election in which the candidate participates during the election year.

We will pause now for an important message:

I am not an election lawyer. Persons interested in running for judge should consult with an election lawyer of their own choosing before making any campaign-related decisions.

However, with that clearly stated, I believe it is safe to say that it is now legal for judicial wannabes to establish committees and for those committees to raise funds.

A lot of the blanks have been filled in since the last time I ran this list, but there will be more vacancies, if there aren't already. This list will be updated as circumstances warrant and time permits.

As always, all errors of omission or commission in this list are mine alone and I am grateful for additions and corrections provided.

Countywide Vacancies

Vacancy of the Hon. Eileen Mary Brewer -- Litricia P. Payne
Vacancy of the Hon. Russell W. Hartigan -- Cecilia A. Horan
Vacancy of the Hon. Michelle D. Jordan -- Clare J. Quish
Vacancy of the Hon. Sheila McGinnis -- Marina E. Ammendola
Vacancy of the Hon. Jean Prendergast Rooney -- Elizabeth A. Karkula

Subcircuit Vacancies

2nd Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Bertina E. Lampkin -- Fredrick H. Bates
Vacancy of the Hon. Marjorie C. Laws -- Adrienne E. Davis
Vacancy of the Hon. James L. Rhodes -- Toya T. Harvey
Vacancy of the Hon. John D. Turner, Jr. -- Travis Richardson
Vacancy of the Hon. Camille E. Willis -- Unfilled

3rd Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Maureen Leahy Delehanty -- Patrick T. Stanton

4th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Thomas Davy -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. James Riley -- John A. O'Meara

5th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Patricia Banks -- H. Yvonne Coleman

6th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Gloria Chevere -- Kent A. Delgado
Vacancy of the Hon. Robert Lopez Cepero -- Stephanie K. Miller

8th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Candace J. Fabri -- Robin D. Shoffner
Vacancy of the Hon. Laura Cha-yu Liu -- Michael A. Forti
Vacancy of the Hon. Sheryl A. Pethers -- Myron F. Mackoff

10th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Eileen O'Neill Burke -- Stephanie Saltouros
Vacancy of the Hon. Donald J. Suriano -- Gerald V. Cleary

11th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Kathleen Kennedy -- Joanne F. Rosado

13th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. Clayton J. Crane -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Jeffrey Lawrence -- Michael Perry Gerber

15th Subcircuit

Vacancy of the Hon. George F. Scully, Jr. -- Diana L. Embil

Coleman appointed to Banks vacancy in 5th Subcircuit

The Illinois Supreme Court today appointed Loop practitioner H. Yvonne Coleman to the 5th Subcircuit vacancy created by the recent retirement of Judge Patrica Banks. The appointment, which is effective next Monday, March 27, expires on December 3, 2018.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Coleman concentrated her practice "in employment and civil rights litigation, workplace investigations, and mediation." She previously served, according to the LinkedIn profile, as Bureau Chief of the Civil Rights and Disability Rights Bureaus in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, and as Manager and Chief Hearing Officer, Appeals Division, with the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Coleman also served as General Counsel with the City of Chicago Independent Police Review Authority, according to LinkedIn.

Coleman has been licensed as an attorney in Illinois since 1988. She filed for a countywide vacancy in the 2014 Primary, but withdrew from that race. She also filed for a 5th Subcircuit vacancy in the 2016 election cycle, but withdrew from that race also.

Two vacancies filled in Second Subcircuit

In separate orders yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed a pair of Cook County Assistant Public Defenders, Toya T. Harvey and Adrienne E. Davis, to two Second Subcircuit vacancies.

Harvey (pictured at left) was appointed to the vacancy created by the recent retirement of Judge James L. Rhodes. Harvey has been licensed as an attorney in Illinois since 1995, according to ARDC. Her appointment is effective on Thursday, March 16 and terminates on December 3, 2018.

An application process for the Rhodes vacancy was posted by Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke.

Davis was appointed to the vacancy created by the retirement of former Markham Presiding Judge Marjorie C. Laws. Davis, who has served as a part-time faculty member at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, has been licensed in Illinois since 1994, according to ARDC. Her appointment is effective on March 17; it also terminates, of course, on December 3, 2018.

272 apply for associate judge in Cook County

If not all, then almost all of the recently appointed judges seem to have also completed applications for this new class of associate judges. The Supreme Court may giveth, but the Democratic Party sometimes taketh away. It's best to hedge one's bets.

Several former judges are on this list as well. Some of these were slated when they ran; some weren't. However, as I'd suggested in a Page Two post back in 2015, slating buys only credibility and access. The $40,000 buy-in (or whatever it may be for 2018) is like an NFL seat license: It just buys the candidate the right to buy tickets, in this case tickets to everybody else's fundraisers. And ads in everyone's adbooks.

And then, of course, there's SLATING... and then there's slating. And the electorate can be fickle, even when the committeemen are faithful. So, for many reasons, some judges wind up ex-judges, hoping to return via the associate judge selection process. Some just lost their spots; some have been gone for awhile.

FWIW readers will recognize a number of applicants on this list as candidates in previous election cycles. Many of these have applied for associate judge before as well. Some names will be particularly familiar because they'd previously made it to the Almost-Promised Land of the Fabled Short List. Almost-promised. These former finalists stand once again outside the wardrobe door, hoping it will fully open into Narnia this time but, if history is any guide, many will find only old coats.

Anyway, without further preface, here is the list of applicants.

1. ADDUCI, Nancy Galassini
2. AGRAWAL, Rishi
3. AHMAD, Mohammad A.
4. AIMEN, Julie Bess
5. AIRAUDI, Joy Christine
6. ALLEN, Shay T.
7. ALONSO, Amee Elizabeth
8. AMMENDOLA, Marina E.
9. ANDREOU, Frank John
10. ANTONIETTI, Erin Haggerty
11. ARNOLD, Kina Nicole
12. AUGUSTUS, Maria
13. AYALA-GONZALEZ, Laura
14. BAE, Jennifer Eun
15. BALSON, Laura Adeline Shadle
16. BARRETT, Michael Brendan
17. BARRIDO, Jerome Celis
18. BAUM, Gideon Abraham
19. BAUMANN, Deidre
20. BEACH, Charles Stanley
21. BENSON, John Christopher
22. BRAVE, Sunil Shashikant
23. BILBREY, Kimberly R.
24. BLAKE, Sandra Mary
25. BLINICK, Robert Kendall
26. BLUMENTHAL, Jeffrey S.
27. BONDS TALLEYRAND, Andrea Daenille
28. BRASSIL, John Hugh
29. BRENNAN, Daniel H., Jr.
30. BROOKS, Lloyd James
31. BUIKEMA, Joel David
32. BUNTINAS, Arunas R
33. BYRNE, James Luke
34. CAGE, Patrick Bernard
35. CARROLL, John P., Jr.
36. CASEY, Carol Anne
37. CENAR, Richard G.
38. CHRlSTOPHELL, Steve
39. CHRONES, Jeffery George
40. CHUPACK, Joel Louis
41. CLARY, Joseph P.
42. CLEARY, Gerald Vernon Patrick, III
43. COAKLEY, Kellyn Doyle
44. COLEMAN, H. Yvonne
45. COLLINS, Cary James
46. COOK, Christine Elizabeth
47. COOPER, Christopher C.
48. CORTESI, Nicholas James
49. COSGROVE, Audrey Victoria
50. COYNE, Daniel Thomas
51. CRAWLEY, James Patrick
52. CUNNINGHAM, Kevin P.
53. CURRIN, Margaret Elizabeth
54. CUSHING, Thomas Maloney
55. DALY, Colleen Reardon
56. DAUPHIN, Yolaine Marie
57. DAVIS, Adrienne Elaine
58. DAWKINS, Barbara Lynette
59. DELGADO, Kent A.
60. DE MATTEO, Gabriel Joseph
61. DERICO, James Thomas, Jr.
62. DICKMAN, Michael Joseph
63. DIMOND, Karen Jane
64. DOLAN, Alice Elizabeth
65. DUNNEBACK, James Francis
66. DYER, Deidre Myra
67. EBERSOLE, Sabra Lynne
68. EMBIL, Diana Lenore
69. EVANS, Carl Lauras, Jr.
70. FALAGARIO, Michael James
71. FARMAKIS, Athena Aphrodite
72. FELDMAN, Stephen Jason
73. FELICIONE, Laura Lechowicz
74. FERRANTE, Mark Vincent
75. FLEMING, Dennis Michael
76. FLORES, Barbara Nubia
77. FORESTER, Laura Ellen
78. FORTI, Michael Angelo
79. FOTOPOULOS, John S.
80. GALHOTRA, Kulmeet Singh
81. GERBER, Michael Perry
82. GILL, Jennifer Lynn
83. GIOVANNINI, Dennis Arthur
84. GLORIOSO, Mauro
85. GOLDEN, Jean Mary
86. GONZALEZ, Jennifer Lynn
87. GONZALEZ, Peter Michael
88. GOODRUM, Bernice
89. GORDAN, Elias Martin
90. GREEN, Jonathan Clark
91. GREEN, Sanju Oommen
92. GUDINO, Ruth Isabel 
93. HANLON, James Edward, Jr.
94. HARRIS, Robert Forsyth
95. HARVEY, Toya Tinette
96. HELLNER, Mark L.
97. HENRY, Sheree Desaree
98. HILL, Lawrence Napoleon
99. HODAL, Joseph Anthony
100. HOGAN, Michael James, Jr.
101. HORAN, Cecilia Anne
102. HOURIHANE, John Nahum
103. HOVEY, Robert Jerome
104. HOWSE, Natalie Lynn
105. HUDSON, Nathalina A.
106. HUGE, Lindsay Christopher
107. HUGHES, Kevin Christopher
108. JANNUSCH, Matthew William
109. JOHN, Patrick Dankwa
110. JONES, Celeste Kathleen
111. JONES, Preston, Jr.
112. KAHN, Eileen Susan
113. KANTAS, Nicholas Alexander
114. KARAVIDAS, Theodore George
115. KARDAS, Kim Richard
116. KARKULA, Elizabeth Anne
117. KESSLER, Sheri C.
118. KOCH, James B.
119. KOEHLER, Julie Ann
120. KOUGIAS, Thomas Peter
121. KOZICKI, Scott Michael
122. KREMIN, David Keith
123. KRISLOV, Clinton Arthur
124. KRUEGER, Steven Philip
125. KUBALANZA, Joan Marie G.
126. LACEY, Sammy Ward
127. LANAHAN, Kathaleen Theresa
128. LARIMER, Angela Sue
129. LEVIN, Ellis Bernard
130. LEVIN, Lawrence Wolf
131. LOIZON, Yvette Colette
132. LUBY, William Joseph
133. LUQUE-ROSALES, Mercedes
134. LUSKIN, Joshua Dante
135. MACKOFF, Myron Franklin
136. MAHER, John G.
137. MAKOWSKI, Donna B.
138. MALONE, Kimberly Michelle
139. MALONEY, Edward James
140. MALONEY LAYTIN, Kerrie Elizabeth
141. MARCONI, Jerome Frank
142. MARKOFF, Robert Glenn
143. MAROVICH, Michael Jay
144. MAYS, Celestia Laurene
145. MECZYK, Ralph Eugene
146. MELCHOR, Mary Alice
147. MESSINEO, James Michael
148. McCARTHY, Kelly Marie
149. McCONVILLE, Terrence James
150. McGUIRE, Thomas Frank
151. McKENNA, Scott Darrell
152. McMAHON, William John
153. McNULTY, John Wesley
154. MILLER, Stephanie Kathryn
155. MOJICA, Lisette Catherine
156. MOLITOR, Thomas Raymond
157. MOLTZ, Ira Alexander
158. MONREAL, Adam Peter
159. MONTES, Paul Joseph, II
160. MOORE, Kelly Ann
161. MORRIS, Tisa Lynne
162. MORRISSEY, Thomas Anthony
163. MULAY, Megan Kathleen
164. MULLENIX, James David
165. MURPHY, James Vincent, III
166. MURRAY, James C., Jr.
167. NACH, Brian Michael
168. NAVARRO, David Ricardo
169. NAZARIAN, Nancy Ellen
170. NESBIT, Nicole Chyrisse
171. NIKOLIC, Daniel Peter, Jr.
172. NORRlS, Scott
173. NOWINSKI, Thomas E.
174. OCHALLA, Kevin John
175. O’CONNELL, Catherine Ann
176. OGAREK, Margaret Mary
177. O’LOUGHLIN, Kate Ryan
178. O’MALLEY, Michael I.
179. O’MEARA, John Andrew
180. OSTOJIC, Radusa
181. PANNITTO, Michael John
182. PANTOGA, Ann Addis
183. PARK, Jeanah
184. PATTERSON, Monique Lenee
185. PATTON, Nichole Catina
186. PAYNE, Jennifer Joyce
187. PAYNE, Litricia Pauline
188. PERKINS, Marian Emily
189. PERKINS, Robbin Eunise
190. PETERS, Daniel Lawrence
191. PEZANOSKI, Diane Marie
192. PIEMONTE, Gina Angela
193. PLESHA, Gregory Gerard
194. PLOTNICK, Paul William
195. PODLASEK, Robert Michael
196. POLI, Carl (Carlo) Ettore
197. POWER, Stephen Walter
198. QUINN, Jill Rose
199. QUISH, Clare Joyce
200. RAKOWSKI, Leo Steven
201. RASCIA, Ronald Anthony
202. REGGI, Martin Douglas
203. REILLY, James Michael
204. RICE, Ashonta Cherron
205. RICHARDSON, Travis
206. RILEY, Shellé Eileen
207. RIZZI, Steven J.
208. ROPER, Lori Ann
209. ROSADO, Joanne F.
210. ROSEN, Lori Michele
211. ROSENBERG, Geri Pinzur
212. ROSS, Curtis Bennett
213. SAINDON, Pamela
214. SALAJANU, Ioana
215. SALTOUROS, Stephanie D.
216. SAMPEN, Don R.
217. SANDERS, Catherine Dorothy
218. SANTANA, Jaime Rafael
219. SCANLON, Brian Patrick
220. SCHOOP, Devlin Joseph
221. SEATON, Debra Ann
222. SEEDER, Myron Marshall
223. SHAPIRO, James Anthony
224. SHOFFNER, Robin Denise
225. SIANIS, Athanasios (Tom) S.
226. SIEGEL, Charles W.
227. SILVA, Rosa Maria
228. SIMMONS-FORD, Jade Ginese
229. SIMPKINS, Anthony E.
230. SMITH, Levander, Jr.
231. SMITH, Trina
232. SMUDA, Joan Ellen
233. SNYDER, Martin Dockery
234. SOLOMON, Donald Scott
235. SPENCE, Keith Lenell
236. STANIEC, Denise Y.
237. STANTON, Patrick Thomas
238. STEFFEN, Ketki Shroff
239. STEPHENSON, Brian Joseph
240. STROM, Michael Alan
241. STROMSTA, Jon Karl
242. STUDENROTH, David L.
243. SUTTON, Arthur Dale
244. SWANSON, Alfred M., Jr.
245. SWANSON, Karin Elizabeth
246. TAYLOR, Lisa M.
247. TAYLOR, Mable
248. THIBAULT, Renee Therese
249. TIERNAN, Daniel Owen
250. TOFT, Rachael Nicole
251. TREVINO, Daniel Alexander
252. TRISTAN, Gerardo, Jr.
253. TROWBRIDGE, Bradley R.
254. TYNER, Randall Louis
255. TZINBERG, Scott William
256. UNDERHILL, Edward J.
257. VAHEY, Kathryn Maloney
258. VELCICH, George Mario
259. VROUSTOURIS, Alexander
260. WALSH, Michael Daniel
261. WATTS, Christopher Alexander
262. WEAVER, Lynn Karyl
263. WEBBER, Andrea Michelle
264. WEBER, Adam Justin
265. WESTON, Antoinette Denise
266. WHITING, Oran Fresno
267. WILK, John Francis
268. WILLIS, Arthur Wesley
269. WRENN, Jeanne Marie
270. WRIGHT, James Adolph
271. YU, William
272. ZAMPARO, Roger, Jr.

Persons with relevant information regarding any associate judge applicant are invited to correspond with the Circuit Court of Cook County Nominating Committee, c/o Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans, 50 West Washington Street, Room 2600, Chicago, Illinois 60602.