Who Sits Where: First Day of Filing edition

With all this warm weather we've had this autumn, one might have hoped that there would be decent weather for the Cook County judicial candidadtes' pilgramage to Springfield this morning.

It snowed instead.

There's a pretty cynical metaphor in there concerning the dangers of hope... but we're too busy today with the first day of candidate filing to tease it out.

We begin instead with an updated Who Sits Where....

Only one new vacancy has opened up since last we posted a list, this one in the 3rd Subcircuit, and it's a special judicial filing period vacancy, too. Meaning no one is filing for it today... but someone is out there collecting signatures furiously, probably even as you read this.

Unless you're reading this in the Archives, of course.

But, again, no time for temporal nonsense. Even if the new Dr. Who specials are finally airing. We'll be posting new articles as time permits, looking at who has actually filed today. In the meantime, though, here's the vacancies list:

Supreme Court Vacancy

Vacancy of the Hon. Anne M. Burke -- Joy V. Cunningham

Appellate Court Vacancies

Vacancy of the Hon. Maureen E. Connors -- Mary L. Mikva
Vacancy of the Hon. Joy V. Cunningham -- Cynthia Y. Cobbs
Vacancy of the Hon. Mathias W. Delort -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Eileen O'Neill Burke -- Carl A. Walker

Countywide Circuit Court Vacancies

Vacancy of the Hon. James P. Flannery, Jr. -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Vincent Gaughan -- Corrine Cantwell Heggie
Vacancy of the Hon. Catherine Haberkorn -- Sarah Rodak Johnson
Vacancy of the Hon. Arnette Hubbard -- Deidre M. Dyer
Vacancy of the Hon. Marcia Maras -- Arlene Y. Coleman-Romeo
Vacancy of the Hon. Raymond W. Mitchell -- Neil H. Cohen
Vacancy of the Hon. Timothy P. Murphy -- Edward J. Underhill
Vacancy of the Hon. Lorna Propes -- Debjani D. Desai
Vacancy of the Hon. William Raines -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Laura M. Sullivan -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Debra B. Walker -- Chloé G. Pedersen

Subcircuit Vacancies

3rd Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Janet Adams Brosnahan -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Edward S. Harmening -- Unfilled

4th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Peter A. Felice -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Edward J. King -- Phillip J. Fowler
Vacancy of the Hon. Edward M. Maloney -- Unfilled

5th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Casandra Lewis -- Unfilled

7th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Irwin J. Solganick -- Owens J. Shelby

8th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Ann Collins-Dole -- Unfilled

10th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Clare E. McWilliams -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Gregory J. Wojkowski -- James S. Murphy-Aguilu*

11th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Ann Finley Collins -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Paula M. Daleo -- Unfilled

12th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Grace G. Dickler -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Marguerite Quinn -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Andrea M. Schleifer -- Unfilled

13th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Samuel J. Betar III -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Ketki Shroff Steffen -- Unfilled

14th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. James N. O'Hara -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Daniel J. Pierce -- Unfilled

15th Subcircuit
Vacancy of the Hon. Anna Helen Demacopoulos -- Unfilled
Vacancy of the Hon. Michael P. Toomin -- Unfilled

16th Subcircuit
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of Lawrence E. Flood
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of Maxwell Griffin, Jr.

17th Subcircuit
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of Carmen K. Aguilar
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of Brian K. Flaherty

18th Subcircuit
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of James B. Linn

19th Subcircuit
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of Robert E. Senechalle, Jr.

20th Subcircuit
Converted from the Associate Judgeship of Elizabeth M. Budzinski

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*  Judge Murphy-Aguilú has been slated for a countywide vacancy by the Cook County Democratic Party. However, he continues to serve by assignment to this vacancy, subject to further order of the Illinois Supreme Court.