Grids! Alliance releases judicial candidate evaluations in Subcircuits 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15

The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening is comprised of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area (AABA), Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), Hellenic Bar Association (HBA), Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC), Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois (PRBA), and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.

You may need to refer back to these abbreviations from time to time as you review the "grids" put out by the Alliance representing the results of each group's investigation of each Cook County judicial candidate (those who were willing to submit their credentials for evaluation, anyway). You'll also need this key to understand the ratings issued by each Alliance member:

(For this, and for all the 'grids' that follow, click to enlarge or clarify -- depending on the device which you are using to view this post.)

You will note some 'blanks' for a few candidates in the grids; where there are blank spaces, the organization in question has, for one reason or another, not completed its investigation of that candidate. As updated grids become available, I will have them here on FWIW.

In this post, I will cover all the races in Subcircuits 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15. Grids in the countywide races can be found in this post. For the current Alliance grids in races in the Subcircuits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, click here.

One other thing: In this post, unlike the preceding ones, you will occasionally see a few "(R)"s preceding a candidate's name. There are Republican candidates in the 12th, 13th, and 15th Subcircuits -- and nowhere else.

One Alliance bar group, the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), has already issued written findings for each judicial candidate in addition to its ratings. I began reporting the Council's findings in this post. More will follow.

Also, this year, the Illinois State Bar Association plans to release explanations of its findings. These are not yet available. However, when they are released, I will have them here on FWIW.