The Circuit Court of Cook County has today announced that 44 persons, 21 men and 23 women, have made the coveted associate judge "short list." It is from this list of names that the full judges of the Cook County will select 22 new colleagues.
Here is the list of the finalists:
A lot of these names will look familiar to FWIW readers, or they should. In the coming weeks, I'll be putting up roundup posts, providing brief biographical sketches for each of the finalists (candidates are invited to email information, including a head shot that I can crop square, in .jpg or .png format, to jackleyhane@yahoo.com).
- AHMAD, Mohammad Abedelal
- BAE, Jennifer Eun
- BAHENA, Hilda
- BARRIDO, Jerome Celis
- BHAVE, Sunil Shashikant
- BISCEGLIA, Joell Claire
- CALLAHAN, Jennifer Patricia
- CARROLL, John P.
- CASTILLO, Nicole
- COLEMAN, Jennifer Frances
- CORBIN, Torrie Luciana
- COSGROVE, Audrey Victoria
- deCASTRO, Pablo F.
- DE MATTEO, Gabriel Joseph
- DESAI, Debjani Dasgupta
- DUFFY, Cristin
- FINKLE, Lester Wolfe
- FRENTZAS, Athena James
- GEMSKIE, Michele Ann
- HEGGIE, Corinne Cantwell
- JHA, Lakshmi Elkhanialy
- JOHNSON, Sarah Rodak
- KANTER, Sharon Arnold
- KNIBBS, James John
- MALONEY, Edward James
- MORRIS, Tisa Lynne
- NORRIS, Scott
- PATTAROZZI, Michael Nando
- PATTERSON, Monique Leneé
- PETERSON, Krista Susan
- PLANEY, Mary Anna
- PORTER, Brian Randall
- REYNA, Mariano Ricardo
- RODRIGUEZ, Federico Martin
- ROE-TAYLOR, Parle M.
- RUFFIN, Anthony
- SAINDON, Pamela
- STUDENROTH, David Lawrence
- TOLLER, Natosha Cuyler
- TULLY, John J.
- TZINBERG, Scott William
- VINES, Michael James
- WARD, Torrick Alan
- WILSON, John Wellington
Within the next couple of weeks every circuit judge will receive a ballot from the Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts. Judges will have just two weeks thereafter to make their choices and return the ballots to the Director.
There were a total of 212 applicants for these vacancies. According to the press release issued today by the Office of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans, 176 of these applicants were interviewed individually by the Circuit Court's nominating committee. Thirty-six candidates withdrew their names from consideration including (for those of you checking my math) two who had already been interviewed.
The Nominating Committee consisted of the following judges:
As to why this may be the largest class for some time, and perhaps the last class for some time as well, see January post.)
- Honorable Timothy C. Evans, Chief Judge,
- Honorable Erica L. Reddick, Presiding Judge, Criminal Division,
- Honorable James P. Flannery, Jr., Presiding Judge, Law Division,
- Honorable Sophia H. Hall, Administrative Presiding Judge, Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Resource Section and Interim Acting Presiding Judge, Chancery Division,
- Honorable Sanjay T. Tailor, Justice, Illinois 1st District Appellate Court,
- Honorable Jill C. Marisie, Presiding Judge, Third Municipal District,
- Honorable Shelley Sutker-Dermer, Presiding Judge, Second Municipal District, and
- Honorable E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., Presiding Judge, First Municipal District.
There are a lot of current and former State's Attorneys on this list, including several who publicly clashed with Kim Foxx. Seems like the judges are sending a message.
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