Alliance grids released for Cook County judicial candidates seeking subcircuit vacancies

The 13 members of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening have just about completed their review of the credentials of candidates seeking judicial vacancies in the 2026 Cook County Democratic Primary. The Alliance would have also attempted to review the credentials of any candidates seeking judicial vacancies in the 2026 Cook County Republican Primary -- but there are no Republican candidates.

This post covers Alliance ratings for subcircuit candidates. Click here for FWIW's earlier post on Alliance ratings of countywide judicial candidates.

Every Cook County voter lives in one of the 20 subcircuits. Not all subcircuits have vacancies to fill in 2026. Many of these vacancies are uncontested. If you live in the 13th Subcircuit, you will find four vacancies... but only four candidates. No choices.
The ratings issued by each of the bar associations that together comprise the Alliance are found in the hieroglyphics beneath the abbrieviated names of the member bar groups. (I'll give you the full names of all 13 if you stay with me until the end here.) The Alliance provides a ratings key so that you may decipher the meanings of these hieroglyphics. Here it is:

Readers will note that some of the squares in the grids are blank. That means that the candidate in question has not yet received a rating from that particular Alliance member. FWIW expects to have updated grids between now and the Feast of St. Patrick.

Alright, then, with these preliminaries concluded, herewith the Alliance ratings for Cook County subcircuit candidates (click to enlarge or clarify the images):

The 13 members of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening are the Arab American Bar Association (AABAR), the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area (AABA), the Black Men Lawyers’ Association (BMLA), the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), the Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), the Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), the Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois (HBA), the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association (LAGBAC), the Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA), and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), all working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.