Campaign website found for Judge John W. Wilson

A campaign website has been launched in support of the campaign by Judge John Wellington Wilson to hold the 1st Subcircuit seat to which he was appointed last summer. That's a link to the new website in the preceding sentence; a link has been added to the site Sidebar.

Licensed as an attorney since 1996, according to ARDC, Wilson's campaign bio discloses that he was serving as the acting Chief of the Public Defender's Office in the Sixth Municipal District – Markham Division at the time of his bench appointment. Previously Wilson the homicide and felony supervisor in the Public Defender’s Markham Division. Before that, Wilson was a member of the elite Homicide Task Force Unit (HTF) in the George S. Leighton Criminal Courts Building.

Wilson's campaign bio notes that, before he went to law school, Wilson worked as an administrator for the City Colleges of Chicago. He was also an Assistant Men's Basketball Coach for Wilbur Wright Community College. He has also served as an adjunct professor at UIC John Marshall Law School’s Summer College to Assess Legal Education Skills (SCALES) program.