Campaign website launched for Justice Cynthia Y. Cobbs

Supporters of Cynthia Y. Cobbs' bid to remain on the Appellate Court have launched a campaign website on her behalf. That's a link to the campaign website in the preceding sentence; FWIW will eventually set up a separate list of Appellate Court candidates in this site's Sidebar, and this link will be included. Justice Cobbs also has a campaign Facebook page.

Technically, Justice Cobbs is a Circuit Court judge, appointed by the Supreme Court to the county bench in 2011 and elected in 2014, but she has been serving on the Appellate Court pursuant to assignment by the Supreme Court since 2015. She was a candidate for the Illinois Supreme Court in 2020.

Cobbs' campaign bio notes her long service with the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, rising to the position of Director in 2002, "becoming the first African American and the first woman to serve in that capacity."

Cobbs currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Judges Association and on the Board of Directors for South Suburban PADS.