Pedersen's appointment is effective May 12 and terminates December 2, 2024.
Currently, Pedersen works as a partner in the firm of Fletcher & Sippel, LLC. Her firm biography recites that Pedersen's practice with that firm has been on behalf of employers in matters including employee retention, discipline and separation (severance and termination), performance management, workplace investigations, policy development and enforcement, employment agreements, work place accommodations, FMLA, FLSA and wage and hour issues.
Before joining her present firm, Pedersen was Chief Legal & Labor Counsel for the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Earlier in her career, Pedersen served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Attorney General’s Government Representation Division. She has been licensed to practice law in Illinois since 2007, according to ARDC.
Pedersen was a candidate for a 4th Subcircuit vacancy in the 2022 election cycle.
Interestingly, when Pedersen is sworn in next month, all three candidates in that race will have attained the bench: ShawnTe Raines-Welch won the primary and was unnopposed in last November's general election, while Jerry Barrido has just begun serving as a Cook County Associate Judge.
No doubt they are all qualified but is interesting that the supremes keep flouting the will of the people and appointing people the electorate has expressly rejected. And, Asians and Hispanics are still not being being adequately represented.
ReplyDeleteWow, Anon 4/5 @12:54 p.m., just wow.
ReplyDeleteOne strike and you're out? Is that the standard you propose? Because we have had a heck of a lot of good judges who stumbled first time out, and maybe a time or two after that, before they got the right race. It has certainly been my observation, hard earned, that one should not view running for judge as a process, over a number of cycles -- something I wish I knew when I was myself a candidate.
And how grand and sweeping, you are, too: "flouting the will of the people?" "[T]he electorate has expressly rejected" this one or that one? Really? In this particular case, a tiny fragment (the tiny fragment that votes in Democratic primaries) of roughly 1/15th of the county electorate chose the House Speaker's wife -- and not by so wide a margin either -- even with all the advantages she had in terms of name recognition, etc. Hardly a resounding rejection.
Obviously, this particular person also has major league clout but, then again, you pretty much have to have something going to get appointed in the first place.
*Sigh*
I'm not here to defend the Supreme Court's choices (unless they choose me -- I'll gladly defend that decision). But a temporary appointment is just that -- temporary -- and if you have another candidate to propose, Anon, for this vacancy, that will better meet whatever criteria you have in mind, I will be pleased to publicize that person's campaign, too.