Campaign website found for Thomas E. Nowinski

Found on the Internet: This campaign website for countywide candidate Thomas E. Nowinski. That is a link to the campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the Sidebar on this site.

Nowinski was one of the nine persons slated by the Cook County Democratic Party this past December for what were then eight countywide openings (a ninth spot has since opened up).

(You might think that campaign websites would spring up overnight for those receiving the Party's nod -- but, at least this year, based on my search this morning, that does not seem to be the case. Websites have not been the exclusive means for campaigns to get their message out for a number of cycles now. Nowinski, for example, also has a campaign Facebook page. Perhaps campaign websites are becoming "old school"? I fully expect that some judicial candidate will announce a TikTok presence during this campaign cycle. But I digress.)

Nowinski currently serves as Chief of Staff to Iris Martinez, the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Licensed as an attorney in Illinois since 2004, accourding to ARDC, Nowinski's campaign bio states that he began his legal career as a Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney "where he tried hundreds of criminal and civil bench trials and jury trials in state and federal court." While assigned to the SAO's Civil Actions Bureau, Nowinski became the lead attorney representing Cook County offices in the Shakman litigation. He eventually became a Deputy Supervisor, overseeing a 14-attorney litigation unit.

His campaign bio also notes that Nowinski served as Deputy Director of Labor Relations for Cook County.

Nowinski was the Cook County Democratic Party's fifth alternate in the 2018 election cycle. He was the first alternate in 2020, but no new vacancy opened in time.